Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API — claim FROST attack requires no permissions or user interaction to identify which apps and websites you're using
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The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
  • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The paper also mentions that it also takes downloading a 1GB OFPS file and JS in use.

    This isn’t so much “researchers can track you” so much as “it’s theocratically possible with stock laptops and browsers, within limitations.”

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      And even in the ideal case, not very effective.

      Interesting approach, but that’s about it.