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How your battery life could be used as an undeletable cookie

The HTML5 Battery Status API (Application Program Interface) can be used to generate a handy little number thats yours and yours alone. Battery information can also be used in cases where a user can go to great lenghts to clear her evercookies. In a corporate setting where devices share similar characteristics and IP addresses, the battery information can be. used to distinguish devices behind a NAT, of traditional tracking mechanisms do not work. Browser fingerprinting is certainly being used in the wild though.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/08/06/how-your-battery-life-could-be-used-as-an-undeletable-cookie/

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