FROST: Your Disk Drive Is The Snitch
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Most of the surveillance stories we’ve looked at here lately have involved things you can at least see when you walk past them: cameras at the gate, sensors on the shelf, a label adjusting a price as you move through space.
    • xianjam@programming.devEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf

      While it surely can detect whether you’re doing something on your SSD, I’m highly doubtful that it could be used to accurately predict what that is. The training model was highly specialized to the target machine and with only certain application genres (e.g. iMac music, videos app store, etc), and only lists two websites (google.com, youtube.com) as identification. In addition, many websites and applications simply don’t access the disk.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        I seriously doubt there is much that doesn’t access the disk drive anymore. Either because of bloat, developer incompetence, or laziness re using code.

        Not the I believe they can accurately detect what your doing.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Chrome and Safari will let a single origin claim up to 60% of your disk space without raising a flag

    Is it not possible to disable this?