On 05/20/2014 04:06 PM, Daniel Holbert wrote: > On 05/20/2014 03:50 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote: >> I agree that there's a risk since this will make it super easy to get to >> the core count. >> I don't have the exact number but I suspect that very few machines will >> have more than 8 cores which makes them valuable for targeted marketing. > > (To be clear, I don't think the "core-count --> value for targeted > marketing" connection you're mentioning here is actually a concern that > anyone has brought up in this forum. The fingerprinting entropy argument > doesn't have much to do with that -- it's rather a concern about > introducing features that make it easier for web content to do > Panopticlick-style persistent tracking / de-anonymization based on a > user's constellation of persistent web-exposed system configuration > options.)
(In other words, the concern isn't as much about the ability to serve targeted ads to All Users Who Have >N CPUs, but rather, with the ability to better-track/de-identify specific users because of a few new extra bits of information. I was reading your message as being about the former instead of the latter, but it's possible I misunderstood.) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
