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> In 294 experiments on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, we observed 116 unique fingerprint values, for a sample entropy of 5.73 bits

The claim being disputed was "canvas jitter for each iPhone 15 Pro will be different", not the broader claim of whether canvas fingerprinting exists at all. 116 unique fingerprints out of 294 doesn't really prove the former is true, especially when you consider that people on Mechanical Turk are probably all on laptops/desktops, which have more hardware diversity compared to smartphones. Moreover if the claim is that every (?) iPhone of the same model has different canvas outputs because of "canvas jitter", wouldn't we expect far more unique fingerprints?



When that was the first attempt, over a decade ago? No.

But as these things don't sit still, a small perusal of any of the above links would give you the information you seek.




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