Interesting article on side channel attacks.
From Freedom To Tinker:
Popular online applications may leak your private data to a network eavesdropper, even if you’re using secure web connections, according to a new paper by Shuo Chen, Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kehuan Zhang. (Chen is at Microsoft Research; the others are at Indiana.) It’s a sobering result — yet another illustration of how much information can be leaked by ordinary web technologies. It’s also really clever.
Read on for the full article.
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