Laptop and mobile battery is leaking your information: Research

If you think that you can hide your identity by switching to incogyto mode on your web-bruser or using a proximity tool, then you are in great misunderstanding. A new research has shown that the device’s battery also makes a lot of information about us.

A team of security researcher has published a paper called ‘The leaking battery’ which is discussed about the information being made public about us by the device’s battery. Researchers have said that this is not happening due to any malware, but the technology used for Global Broad Internet is the hand of HTML5.

HTML5 battery API informs a website about the remaining battery in the visitor’s device. Actually, the objective of this feature is to inform the web publisher about the device of the visitor. For example, if there is not much battery left in a device, then such a situation can offer a low energy consumer version of his website to the visitor.

But during this time, how much battery life is left in the device, how much time will it take to discharge it completely and information like existing charge level is shared due to this feature. The more we browse the website, the more the information is available to the website. In such a situation, it becomes possible to collect all these information about us in one place and the risk of our identity to become public also increases.

The study reads, “There is a third-party script on many websites that can link every visit to the user within a limited deadline. This web script makes it possible to be possible with the information about the battery.”

It further states, “Reading on every site will be the same as the update interval is also the same. In this way, the third party script has all your visit details. Apart from this, if you get out of these site too, but after some time you visit another site where the same third-party script is present. It is possible that the use of these readings is possible to listen to the outstanding. To be taken. “

Researchers have reported that in June 2015, there was support for the Battery Condition API on web-bruser like Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Researchers say that users can use Tor based browser on Firefox for more privacy and security.