Collaborate Disseminate
Tor’s approach to countering fingerprinting is to make as many users “appear the same” as possible. Let us call this “generalization”. While Brave tries to randomize all fingerprints of each and every user in a unique way (for each new ope… Continue reading Which approach is technically more effective to hinder user tracking – fingerprint generalization or randomization?
Some services, like https://2ip.io/privacy/, are able to detect (correctly) OpenVPN and its settings. For example, in my case: OpenVPN, AES, MAC is SHA512.
How VPN fingerprinting works? I thought the only clue is the MTU, but I have reall… Continue reading Evade VPN fingerprinting
I was following this Lynda course.
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ethical-hacking-enumeration/enumerating-smb-from-linux-episode-1
The instructor used this script to detect the OS of the target system.
nmap –script /usr/share/nmap/s… Continue reading nmap script "smb-os-discovery.nse" does not output information about the host OS?
About 10 compromised websites employ a multi-stage, targeted effort to fingerprint and compromise victims. Continue reading Watering-Holes Target Asian Ethnic Victims with Flash Update Decoy
L. Cuccovillo in his paper Audio tampering detection via microphone classification talks about identification of the uniqueness in the output generated by the microphones which can act as a fingerprint for the device.
What are the possi… Continue reading What are the various defense mechanisms against audio fingerprinting
Brave is testing a new defence against fingerprinting: confusing algorithms by randomising some of the data they collect. Continue reading Brave browser to block web fingerprinting with randomisation
There is a web server I’d like to recon using httprint.
But that web server has a basic auth protection on 443. Port 80 is not responding.
When I launch httprint, it says Unspecified Error
The same thing happens with netcat. It fails bec… Continue reading Can I bypass basic auth to fingerprint a web server with Httprint or netcat? [closed]
Google doesn’t want to block third-party cookies in Chrome right now. It has promised to make them obsolete later, though. Wait – what? Continue reading Google to kill third-party Chrome cookies in two years
This question was originally Does Firefox in VM have a common enough fingerprint so I don’t need tor browser? in Tor community.
I want to know about what a web browser’s fingerprint like in a VM, if
VM runs a common OS and have defau… Continue reading How to configure a VM to protect all my hardware fingerprint from guest OS and softwares?
Assuming that online storage providers are considered untrusted, if files and directories are encrypted, how can these be protected against fingerprinting?
The files are encrypted using rclone’s implementation of Poly1305 an… Continue reading How can we protect encrypted files and directories from being fingerprinted when stored on online storage services?