Tracking you using your computer’s temperature

This is exceedingly evil. By measuring clock skew via packets your computer sends out on the internet, an attacker could use the CPU temperature information to compromise your anonymity.

The Chaos Communications Conference seems to be where the cool (and evil) kids are hanging out this week.

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