There has been more noise about WebRTC making it possible to track users. We have covered some of the nefarious uses of WebRTC and look out for it before. After reading a blog post on this topic covering some allegedly new unaddressed issues a week ago I decided to ignore it after some discussion on the mozilla […]
Philipp Hancke
First steps with ORTC
ORTC support in Edge has been announced today. A while back, we saw this on twitter: Windows Insider Preview build 10525 is now available for PCs: http://t.co/zeXQJocgLs This release lays groundwork for ORTC in Microsoft Edge — Microsoft Edge Dev (@MSEdgeDev) August 18, 2015 “This release [build 10525] lays the groundwork for ORTC” was quite […]
Dear NY Times, if you’re going to hack people, at least do it cleanly!
So the New York times uses WebRTC to gather your local ip addresses… Tsahi describes the non-technical parts of the issue in his blog. Let’s look at the technical details… it turns out that the Javascript code used is very clunky and inefficient. First thing to do is to check chrome://webrtc-internals (my favorite tool since […]