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I don’t know what I’m talking about, but presumably the address on the envelope is not the final destination.
by epgui 4y ago
I don’t know what I’m talking about, but presumably the address on the envelope is not the final destination.
- hinkley 4y agoThat's true in TOR, but not true in IP packets. And then it took us three or four major iterations of HTTPS before we stopped revealing a bunch of metadata about the question you're asking the server. Also if you know what service I'm talking to, and you know anything about me, you can get some statistically relevant information from the traffic patterns. You might be able to tell if I'm using a chat application, or watching videos. And if I'm being surveilled by state actors, then the fact that I'm chatting might suggest what I'm getting up to.
- epgui 4y agoThanks for correcting me & for the info!
- kccqzy 4y agoThe Ethernet address isn't the final destination. The IP address is the final destination in practice. Of course you can also have proxies and port forwarding and whatnot but that's a whole different topic.