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I wonder, is it possible to mine that data for something valuable?

• tjoff 14y ago
  Mining for passwords isn't uncommon. And while most valuable targets use encryption most users use the same password for most services. You could go one step further and play with MITM as well.
• cjbprime 14y ago
  > I wonder, is it possible to mine that data for something valuable? Yes, people have published papers doing this: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/papers/Tor/PETS2008_37.pdf http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/papers/Tor/PETS2008_37... My understanding is that looking at exit node traffic individually rather than statistically is likely to be illegal in many jurisdictions.
  • gtt 14y ago
    Statistical approach is more interesting imo as it could lead to some insights for data compression algorithm perhaps?