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As part of our work on device blocking and features to mitigate long-term abuse we want to look into third party libraries that we could use to use to compute and hash a fingerprint. Open source is preferred but we should not rule out any solution at this early stage of the project.

As part of our work on device blocking and features to mitigate long-term abuse we want to look into third party libraries that we could use to use to compute and hash a fingerprint. This hash would then need to be stored on WMF servers for use in IP/IP range blocks, or potentially just as fingerprint blocks. Timebox to one day to investigate and write-up a summary of options (libraries, services, etc.) and a rough technical implementation here on this task. Plus include analysis on the effectiveness of these libraries. Please note that this investigation is due to a request from the WMF Board to look into anti-abuse. We are not committing to building this and are extremely aware that this project has some severe privacy implications.

As part of our work on device blocking and features to mitigate long-term abuse we want to look into third party libraries that we could use to use to compute and hash a fingerprint. Open source is preferred but we should not rule out any solution at this early stage of the project.This hash would then need to be stored on WMF servers for use in IP/IP range blocks, or potentially just as fingerprint blocks. Timebox to one day to investigate and write-up a summary of options (libraries, services, etc.) and a rough technical implementation here on this task. Plus include analysis on the effectiveness of these libraries. Please note that this investigation is due to a request from the WMF Board to look into anti-abuse. We are not committing to building this and are extremely aware that this project has some severe privacy implications.