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Respectfully, unless your adversary is the NSA, and they are targeting you, your argument is full of shit.
by GhettoMaestro 7y ago
Respectfully, unless your adversary is the NSA, and they are targeting you, your argument is full of shit.
- fulafel 7y agoWhy do you think it would be unworkable for a corrupt ad network in cahoots with your corrupt ISP to correlate your web requests based on time, length and previously seen traffic from the VPN IP?
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoBecause it is way too much effort with questionable return on investment.
- guest0914 7y agoCan't it be automated?
- fulafel 7y agoI agree that the business case is not that obvious but converting a "can't be done" argument to a "not interesting enough" is already pretty significant. The amortized cost per user would be very low after all, assuming this was used for automated mass surveillance.
- GhettoMaestro 7y ago> [...] The amortized cost per user would be very low after all, assuming this was used for automated mass surveillance. Honestly I think this is the total opposite case. "Full take" collection systems are notoriously money pits due to the nature (hence, full take). Targeted surveillance will ALWAYS be far more cost efficient than blanket mass surveillance.
- fulafel 7y agoThis is much different from full take, as there is a well defined equation to be solved. There would be no need to store the traffic contents, just size+ timestamp + addrs, info that will compress very well.