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Re: [Model-t] Web Tracking

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 17 February 2020 22:21 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:20:41 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Model-t] Web Tracking
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 2:13 PM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote:

> Peace,
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 1:03 AM Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>
>> There are different shades of "local" on the user's machine. [..]
>>>
>>
>> [..] Web Tracking uses existing Web APIs in an unexpected (and largely
>> undesirable) way. It is a totally different threat model from the attacker
>> running malicious code on the user's machine.
>>
>
> Does (or does not) the concept we discuss here include running malicious
> frontend JS code on the user's machine?
>

Well, I can't speak for "we", but from the perspective of a browser
manufacturer, the threat model includes malicious JS.

-Ekr

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