The OP's link is timing out over Tor for me, but the Wayback[1] version loaded without issue.
Also, does anyone know of any researchers in the academic world focusing on this issue? We are aware that EFF has a project that used to be named after a pedophile on this subject, but we are more looking for professors at universities or pure research labs ala MSR or PARC than activists working for NGOs, however pure their praxis :-)
As privacy geeks, we have become fascinated with the topic -- it seems that while we can achieve security through extensions like noscript or ublock origin or firefox containers (our personal "holy trinity"), anonymity slips through our fingers due to fingerprinting issues. (Especially if we lump stylometry in the big bucket of "fingerprinting".)
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260422190706/https://fingerpri...
>We are aware that EFF has a project that used to be named after a pedophile on this subject
You bring this up like it's a well known incident, but my googling can find no evidence of it? The only reason not say the name of the project would be if it's common knowledge, but it's not?
ChatGPT research reckons you're making it up, and I'd be curious if you have evidence to the contrary?
It used to be called Panoptoclik (sp?), a reference to Foucault's theory of the panopticon. Focault's extracurriculars are well documented and not everything is an "incident" -- it's a thread on fingerprinting. People who study that are aware what is now called "cover your tracks", and people who do post grads tend to be well rounded enough to have read a bit of philosophy, or at least, they did in my day.
So what happened here is basically... AI told you that something that made you suspicious because you have zero subject matter expertise is suspect?
I'm not really sure how to react to someone who has a robot affirm their anxieties other than to stand by my previous statements and give a polite pointer at some terms to look up on Wikipedia rather than feed into a clanker.
Funny you mention Wikipedia
You said it was “named after a pedophile”, that is wrong
>>The word panopticon derives from the Greek word for "all seeing" – panoptes.
The concept was invented by Jeremy Bentham, who died before Foucault was born.
Interesting that you named your HN account after a famous homophobe.
You invalidated your initial claim. Panopticon is not a pedo. Therefore the project was not named after one. Therefore the robot was right.
Mozilla is working on it. (I know you said 'Academic', but we publish papers sometimes too.)
I'd lump Mozilla into the bucket since it's a nonprofit and open source, it's hard to come up with an objective list of what makes an org "good" so sometimes it's been useful to fall back on the fact that at least in the states, academics are bound by the IRB.
yes, there’s an active area of research on web fingerprint, both attacks and defences. Look at conferences like PETS for instance
pets is a good conference.
i also like anonbib as a central repo for interesting work.
https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html
what are you referring to with that EFF app part?