On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote:

> There was the lofty notion of including all images, CSS/JS/whatnot as CDATA
> elements in the page itself, for browsers that support it. That would get
> around the one issue, but still allow size-based fingerprinting, especially
> since most users will follow links within the site, so the search space
> gets much smaller. Random package size increase, as mentioned, might help
> there.

This is part of why support and rapid adoption of protocols that allow for 
multiplexing (SPDY/HTTP2.0) are important - they would make the fingerprinting 
process significantly more difficult.

--Ken.
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