On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholb...@mozilla.com>wrote:
> 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.) > No, you understood me correctly: WK's concern was with >N CPUs which is why the limit was set and the wiki updated. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
