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One option is to hide your internet history, the other is to automate it (including signing up for and logging in to sites you don't necessarily visit) so that
by MWil 10y ago
One option is to hide your internet history, the other is to automate it (including signing up for and logging in to sites you don't necessarily visit) so that your machine is logging 24/7 and your small portion gets lost in the haystack
- mike-cardwell 10y agoYour "fake" traffic would have to very closely match your non-fake traffic otherwise it could be easily filtered out. And I'm not just talking about User-Agent headers.
- onion2k 10y agoLogging discovers who visited a specific "bad website" - the fact there might be 10,000 "good websites" in your history is essentially irrelevant. If you visited the bad one then you'll get flagged as a user of the "bad website".
- buro9 10y ago> your small portion gets lost in the haystack This is not a good security method in this day and age. It is cheap to watch and alert on everything.
- Kepler-125c 10y agoThis is not true, for instance say you're an oppressive government and have a method to decrypt encryption type X (https, E2E encryption or what-have-you). There's only so many times you can use your decryption alg for evil purposes before someone leaks that you have it. Https is infinitely better than http, E2E encryption is infinitely better than nothing.