The paper further details that the current implementation can successfully fingerprint a GPU in just eight seconds, but warns that next-gen APIs in development for the next step of the world wide web could allow for even faster and more accurate fingerprinting. WebGPU, for instance, will feature support for compute shader operations to be run through the browser. The researchers tested a compute shader approach to its DrawnApart identification process, and found that not only was accuracy tremendously increased to 98%, but that it reduced the identification time from 8 seconds through the vertex shaders down to just 150 milliseconds with the compute solution. Potentially, this could mean that merely misclicking on a website could be enough for consumers’ GPUs to be singularly identified, with all the risks that entails for personal privacy and cybersecurity. Additionally, legislation and protections on online tracking practices are mostly incompetent in protecting users from this particular technique.

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