Provide JS with reduced time precision
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To help reduce information available to fingerprinting, we should randomize or truncate the values returned from Date(), event.timeStamp, and interval timers. I've never thought this was a useful thing to do before, because Tor latency is high enough and variable enough that most machines using NTP should be well concealed within the noise.
However, bug #1261 (closed) brings up a good point about javascript being able to measure the time intervals of various things (such as typing, but really it could be anything) to produce a fingerprint.
Unfortunately, we may need Firefox support for this, unless their javascript engine has changed to allow hooking of the Date() object again.
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