> Digitally “fingerprinting” the users of a website is a known technique that has many purposes. The most common legitimate use is to identify returning users
Incidentally, this is not a legitimate use-case. It's insane to me that companies act like blatant violations of the CFAA are okay. You are not authorized to start scanning a user's private network and making requests to internal services because they loaded a web page.
The engineers, managers, and product people involved in doing that kind of thing should be prosecuted for it.
Incidentally, this is not a legitimate use-case. It's insane to me that companies act like blatant violations of the CFAA are okay. You are not authorized to start scanning a user's private network and making requests to internal services because they loaded a web page.
The engineers, managers, and product people involved in doing that kind of thing should be prosecuted for it.