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"We kill people based on metadata" ~~ General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA
by Jon_Lowtek 6y ago
"We kill people based on metadata"
~~ General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA
- cm2187 6y agoYeah but he was referring to direct phone contacts. You connecting to a Skype or Facebook server doesn’t tell you anything.
- Jon_Lowtek 6y agoWell the article focuses on backbone cable tapping, but they collect metadata of "who talks to whom" from facebook and microsoft, too. Lets say someone is using a northern european vpn-server to connect to facebook and that vpn-server is not cooperating. Decloaking is statistical analysis against timing and rough size of packages, so tapping the cables on both ends of the vpn-server and recording metadata for all its connections is key, even if they can't break the encryption.