Later archive addition

Detecting incognito mode in Chrome 76 with a timing attack

The article detects Chrome 76 Incognito mode by repeatedly timing FileSystem API writes, exploiting the speed and variance difference between its memory-backed Incognito storage and disk-backed normal storage. Measurements showed markedly faster, less noisy writes in Incognito, though the technique is slow and sensitive to hardware and background activity.

In the archive

• Added to the 2019 archive after the original list was published

Tags

• timing-attack
• side-channel
• browser-fingerprinting
• privacy
• browser
• measurement-study

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