▲ 55 ▼ Researchers have just unveiled a technique called FROST that lets a website work out which other websites and apps you have open, without you clicking a single thing (protonprivacy.substack.com) submitted 4 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world 4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children) Great. Just what we need. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xianjam@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago (1 child) https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf While it surely can detect whether you're doing something on your SSD, I'm highly doubtful that it could be used to accurately predict what that is. The training model was highly specialized to the target machine and with only certain application genres (e.g. iMac music, videos app store, etc), and only lists two websites (google.com, youtube.com) as identification. In addition, many websites and applications simply don't access the disk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago I seriously doubt there is much that doesn't access the disk drive anymore. Either because of bloat, developer incompetence, or laziness re using code. Not the I believe they can accurately detect what your doing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xianjam@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago (1 child) https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf While it surely can detect whether you're doing something on your SSD, I'm highly doubtful that it could be used to accurately predict what that is. The training model was highly specialized to the target machine and with only certain application genres (e.g. iMac music, videos app store, etc), and only lists two websites (google.com, youtube.com) as identification. In addition, many websites and applications simply don't access the disk. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago I seriously doubt there is much that doesn't access the disk drive anymore. Either because of bloat, developer incompetence, or laziness re using code. Not the I believe they can accurately detect what your doing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago I seriously doubt there is much that doesn't access the disk drive anymore. Either because of bloat, developer incompetence, or laziness re using code. Not the I believe they can accurately detect what your doing. permalink fedilink source parent