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Researchers have discovered a new way to create a digital fingerprint of a user, not only in popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox, but also in Tor. The essence of the method is that it enumerates protocols to launch applications on the user's side, and, depending on the set of installed ones, generates an identifier.
Thus, the identifier assigned to the user by this method is in most cases unique for each computer, which means that it can be used to link together digital images from several separate browsers of the same user.
See for yourself: The researcher created a script (https://schemeflood.com/) that tries to launch various programs from the browser (for example, using the zoommtg:// URL, which tells the browser to launch the Zoom client), and then based on the resulting information about installed programs assigns you an identifier.
And although now the method generates an identifier based on only 24 programs, the list can be increased.
Thus, the identifier assigned to the user by this method is in most cases unique for each computer, which means that it can be used to link together digital images from several separate browsers of the same user.
See for yourself: The researcher created a script (https://schemeflood.com/) that tries to launch various programs from the browser (for example, using the zoommtg:// URL, which tells the browser to launch the Zoom client), and then based on the resulting information about installed programs assigns you an identifier.
And although now the method generates an identifier based on only 24 programs, the list can be increased.
