Hi, I’m Tom

I’m a Security Engineer based in London

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Oct 4, 2024

Privacy-Preserving Canvas Fingerprinting

Disclaimer: This post is more of a write-up and note-taking for my own exploration of HTML5 canvas fingerprinting and privacy-preserving techniques. How accurate are HTML5 canvas fingerprints? According to AmIUnique, only about 0.73% of users share the same canvas fingerprint as I do, highlighting its uniqueness. Canvas fingerprinting is a technique widely used in ad tracking and user identification systems and has recently been explored in risk-based authentication research 1. While there is extensive research into detecting and mitigating canvas fingerprinting, few studies have examined just how privacy-invasive these techniques are in practice. Read more
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My name is Tom Ganz and I am currently living in London and working as a security engineer @Amazon. I am interested in computer security and machine learning. Feel free to send me an E-Mail using my PGP key.

  • PhD Machine Learning and IT Security @Technical University of Berlin
  • Msc. Computer Science @University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe
  • Bsc. Applied Computer Science @Corporate State University Karlsruhe
  • Reviews for IEEE Access
  • Subreviews for S&P
  • Reviews for CCS AISec
  • AISec CCS Best Paper Award 2021
  • @Memgraph Graph-based vulnerability discovery 2024
  • Cooperate State University Karlsruhe 2022: Lecturer for Compiler Engineering
  • SAP Conference on Machine Learning 2022: Explainable Fuzzing
  • SAP Conference on Machine Learning 2022: Graph Autoencoders - on the Hunt for Malicious Commits
  • SAP Development Kick-Off Meeting: Automated Analysis of Source Code Repositories using Machine Learning
  • SAP Conference on Machine Learning 2021: Intelligently Protect the Enterprise - What machines may learn about graphs in your software
  • SAP Security Expert Summit 2021: Intelligently Protect the Enterprise - What machines may learn about graphs in your software

Check out my LinkedIn to see my current CV.