Comment on Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 days agoI wonder if you could setup a virtual drive that gets picked up as an SSD and then automate and randomize everything that happens within it so it’s just noise. The problem is that this hack probably gives insight into every drive on the system, so the exploit would still grab that data; it would just run alongside the bullshit stream of data.
qprimed@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
the attack should only have insight into the abstracted storage provided by the browser, so your idea of a virtual device that spits out random timing results is probably reasonable.
the issue is that timing being random, in and of itself, is a potential fingerprint when combined with other data from your browser - unless everyone is doing it as well.
all I can say is I give thanks for noscript every single day.