{"id":18632,"date":"2018-12-10T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18632"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T23:35:22","slug":"your-vibrations-are-your-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/10\/your-vibrations-are-your-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Vibrations Are Your Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a new way to track visitors to your website, as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Here's a new way to track visitors to your website, as noted in NewScientist (): (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24032054-100-web-tracker-can-follow-you-for-months-even-if-you-delete-your-cookies\/\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (24 November 2018, paywall):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The tool works by measuring subtle but unique differences in the way the quartz crystal in a computer\u2019s clock behaves compared with crystals in other computers. These differences affect how quickly websites are processed by a computer, so they act as a digital fingerprint for a device.<\/p><p>When 300 volunteers made a one-off visit to a website using the tool, it could uniquely fingerprint around half of them. When combined with other techniques that measure how a computer processes a web site\u2019s graphics, 80 per cent of devices could be identified.<\/p><p>\u201cOur technique is far more reliable and practical than any existing fingerprinting technique,\u201d says Sanchez-Rola. His team presented the tool at the recent ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Toronto, Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So now I suppose browsers are going to have to offer an option for varying how quickly they process websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This what I call goofy shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new way to track visitors to your website, as noted in NewScientist (24 November 2018, paywall): The tool works by measuring subtle but unique differences in the way the quartz crystal in a computer\u2019s clock behaves compared with crystals in other computers. These differences affect how quickly websites \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/10\/your-vibrations-are-your-identification\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18634,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions\/18634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}