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I never though of it that way. An interesting idea that I had was quite the opposite. Run a program that does totally random searches and web page requests (w
by gist 11y ago
I never though of it that way.
An interesting idea that I had was quite the opposite.
Run a program that does totally random searches and web page requests (with appropriate headers) in order to create so much info as to render it useless to anyone spying. Almost like if you were running a public proxy.
Reminds me of an old Perry Mason episode where he had 25 guys help him move a car to create a bunch of fingerprints. Maybe it wasn't Perry Mason but some crime show but that was the concept.
- infinity0 11y agoYou might be interested in this: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ However, the difficulty is to make these requests actually look indistinguishable from normal browsing. It might "work OK" now, but the behaviour certainly is different from normal browsing habits. If everyone started using this, you can bet someone would pour a lot of money into research that filters out the automated requests. Then one basically needs to solve steganography, which is a hard problem, harder than cryptography.
- gist 11y agoThat's interesting thanks for that. I wonder if someone could put together a product that would just sit on the network and do the same thing unattended 24x7 that didn't have to be installed as an extension.