We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities

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We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities

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Firefox@fedia.ioEnglish · 1 month ago

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We discovered a privacy vulnerability in Firefox Private Browsing and Tor Browser that allows websites to fingerprint and track users across origins using IndexedDB database ordering, even after closing all private windows.

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