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Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
(www.tomshardware.com)
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Sounds like a bunch of timing attacks could be rendered useless if access to an accurate timer required special permission. And without the permission, it either limited the resolution or added random jitter to any timer APIs.
Yeah, honestly we should have a way to instrument JS without actually making the JS runtime able to read the measurement data