{"id":1087,"date":"2010-01-28T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2010-01-28T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:18:36","slug":"minimal-disclosure-for-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Minimal disclosure for browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not five minutes after pressing enter on my <a href=\"\/?p=1086\">previous post<\/a> a friend wrote back and challenged me to compare IE&#39;s behavior with that of Firefox.&nbsp; I don&#39;t like doing product comparisons but clearly this is a question others will ask so I&#39;ll share the results with you:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/01\/browserfingerprint_ff.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong>:&nbsp; behavior of the two browsers are essentially identical.&nbsp; In both cases, my browser was uniquely identified.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>:&nbsp; we need to work across the industry to align browsers with minimal disclosure principles.&nbsp; How much information needs to be released to a site we don&#39;t trust yet?&nbsp; To what extent can the detailed information currently release be collapsed into non-identifying categories?&nbsp; When there is some compelling reason to release detailed information, how do we inform the user that the site wants to obtain a fingerprint?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EFF research could help the industry evolve browsers to follow minimal disclosure principles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,47,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}