HTTPS is not enough: boffins fingerprint user environments without cracking crypto

Encryption might hide important content from prying eyes, but a group of Israeli researchers has found that HTTPS traffic alone can fingerprint a user's operating system, browser, and application. With a big enough learning set, they write, they were able to identify users' environments with 96.06 per cent accuracy.
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