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Hell. Is that amount of global correlation even possible? What if I route through 7 countries? Surely the data of every single ISP on earth cannot be collected
by Aerbil313 3y ago
Hell. Is that amount of global correlation even possible? What if I route through 7 countries? Surely the data of every single ISP on earth cannot be collected in the hands of a single entity?
Btw I2P provides imho decent amount of protection for timing and packet sniffing attacks.
- chrz 3y agoThe 'surely cannot' part is where one makes a deadly assumption.
- anonym29 3y agoYou are correct that not every single ISP sells this data, but for reference, back when Team Cymru's 'Pure Signal Recon' product was advertised under the name 'Augury', Team Cymru claimed that data sources included "90% of global ISPs". They currently claim to be ingesting and processing neflow metadata from over 200 billion (with a b) connections per DAY. So in theory, yes, route through enough ISP's, and you may eventually hit one along the way who isn't selling that data. That said, to my knowledge, no ISPs are required to disclose whether or not they sell metadata, and as profit-oriented corporations, have no incentive to be honest about that if asked. So it's something of a gamble to assume you can definitely find a path through n ISPs where at least one of them does not sell netflow metadata.