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We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities

We recently discovered a privacy vulnerability affecting all Firefox-based browsers. The issue allows websites to derive a unique, deterministic, and stable process-lifetime identifier from the order of entries returned by IndexedDB, even in contexts where users expect stronger isolation. This means a website can create a set of IndexedDB databases, inspect the returned ordering, and use that ordering as a fingerprint for the running browser process. Because the behavior is process-scoped rather...

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