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Fingerprinting, Now Wireless

by mex

Google, with version 56 of their Chrome browser brings us another fun security nightmare. The ability for the browser to fingerprint your Bluetooth devices. If your browser viewport, plugins, colors, screen size, browser version, operating system, fonts and all the other wonderful things are not enough to track you, now your friendly tracking network can also check how many and which Bluetooth devices you have, …

We are really ending up in a world, where you really, really, really need to know what you are doing if you do not want to be tracked all over the place.

Link to the Register