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Audio Fingerprinting Discovered on Alibaba Websites While Debugging BLE Multipoint Disconnects

A recent discovery revealed that AliExpress employs silent audio streams for device fingerprinting, leveraging the Web Audio API. This technique involves analyzing hardware-specific audio processing to distinguish user devices. Privacy-focused browsers have developed countermeasures, highlighting a security gap in current web standards regarding audio context initialization and user privacy. By…

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