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Local IP discovery with HTML5 WebRTC: Security and privacy risk?

24 pointsby einarosover 11 years ago

7 comments

lallysinghover 11 years ago
Well, it&#x27;s a complicated answer, I think.<p>Generally, it&#x27;s not an additional risk over how screwed you generally are. If you&#x27;re taking precautions against existing attacks, then yeah.<p>Question is, can it be fixed? The WebRTC SDP&#x27;s for getting a peer-to-peer connection, so the general case seems to need to share IP addresses..<p>But that&#x27;s not really needed, if you&#x27;re normally behind a NAT, you&#x27;re going to be behind a NAT this time, and don&#x27;t need to share your real IPs -- just STUN&#x2F;ICE data. If you&#x27;re not behind a NAT, they already have your IP address.
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kzahelover 11 years ago
This is really scary that it can be used as a very reliable fingerprinting technique.<p><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-05#section-4.2.4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-05#sec...</a><p>It doesn&#x27;t seem like the issue is addressed in the webrtc draft.
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pfrazeover 11 years ago
It might be a good idea to prompt for rights to use that feature, same as with the webcam or fullscreen.
zurnover 11 years ago
NAT-is-a-security-feature is such a zombie meme...
pdfcollectover 11 years ago
How can one disable WebRTC on chrome&#x2F;firefox? (Apart from using an older browser of course)
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codezeroover 11 years ago
I&#x27;m not getting anything on the page linked to in this article: <a href="http://net.ipcalf.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;net.ipcalf.com&#x2F;</a><p>On Chrome I get nothing, on Firefox, I get a printed out shell command.
Goranekover 11 years ago
is it possible to get a hostname(computer name)?
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