[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 132588] support for navigator.cores or navigator.hardwareConcurrency

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132588





--- Comment #3 from Rik Cabanier <cabanier at adobe.com>  2014-05-05 20:25:07 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> In addition to more bits for fingerprinting, it's directly exploitable data - the web page will know whether you have expensive hardware.

How so? There are 8-core ARM systems which will be common in a year or two.
There's also an 8-core Intel Atom which is low cost. 
MacBook Air's (which are expensive) are still stuck on 4 cores.

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