Antoine Vastel Blog

Second post of a series about crawlers. We present how to parallelize a crawler based on Chrome headless and Puppeteer to take screenshots of the home page of the 100 most popular websites.

First post of a series about crawlers. We present how to use Chrome headless with Puppeteer to take screenshots of the home page of the 100 most popular websites.

Papers and slides of presentations I recently gave at IEEE S&P 18 and Usenix Security 18 about browser fingerprinting.

Because of their side effects, browser fingerprinting countermeasures may have a negative impact on users privacy. In this post we look more in details at Canvas Defender, a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure.

Slides de la présentation sur les empreintes de navigateurs (browser fingerprints) effectuée à Euratechnologie le 12/04/2018 dans le cadre des rendez-vous du plateau Inria.

This post presents 4 Javascript solutions to compute the n^th term of a Fibonacci sequence.

This post presents techniques that enables to distinguish a vanilla Chrome browser from a Chrome browser running in headless mode. It updates information presented in the post of August.

Vulgarisation de l'article FP-Stalker publié à la conférence S&P 18. Le post présente dans quelle mesure les empreintes de navigateur peuvent être utilisées à des fins de tracking.

This post gives a high overview on what is obfuscation, in particular it presents the main transformations used to obfuscate a program.

This post presents techniques that enables to distinguish a vanilla Chrome browser from a Chrome browser running in headless mode.