A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser - WIRED

Researchers have found a way to use the web's basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.

How this de-anonymization attack works is difficult to explain but relatively easy to grasp once you have the gist. Someone carrying out the attack needs a few things to get started: a website they c… [+3842 chars]

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