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Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML5

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Paul Stone demonstrates browser timing attacks using SVG filters to recover pixels and distinguish visited links. The OCR proof of concept recognises hexadecimal text by sampling four distinct pixels per character, with repeated timing readings for accuracy and known font, size, position and character set.

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