Tor users, beware: 'Scheme flooding' technique may be used to deanonymize you

Tor users, beware: 'Scheme flooding' technique may be used to deanonymize you

FingerprintJS, maker of a browser-fingerprinting library for fraud prevention, on Thursday said it has identified a more dubious fingerprinting technique capable of generating a consistent identifier across different desktop browsers, including the Tor Browser.


That means, for example, if you browse the web using Safari, Firefox, or Chrome for some websites, and use the Tor browser to anonymously view others, there is a possibility someone could link your browser histories across all those sessions using a unique identifier, potentially deanonymize you, and track you around the web.


Doing this is non-trivial, it can be very inaccurate or unreliable, and so this is more of a heads up than anything else.

Konstantin Darutkin, senior software engineer at FingerprintJS, said in a blog post that the company has dubbed the privacy vulnerability "scheme ..

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