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Overheard in conversation at a security conference a few years ago: for many people, it's probably likely that the fingerprint you leave just by the top ten web
by jka 13y ago
Overheard in conversation at a security conference a few years ago: for many people, it's probably likely that the fingerprint you leave just by the top ten websites you visit is quite distinguishing.
Given that - on top of all of the 'obvious' linkages that are out there (friends, email contacts, identity cards/numbers, payment methods), it's imaginable that for a 'suitably advanced' adversary, you have to be extremely vigilant if you want to detach your new identity.
The reality for many people (including in modern witness protection, I'd imagine) is that it simply isn't humanly feasible to be that perfect - so you have to trust your benefactors to a certain extent (and assume that no-one will get access to any correlation information they might build).
- Theodores 13y agoI read that in the New York Times during the glory years of The War Against Terror. So yes, our friends at the NSA are on to that one already. So you could go to random cyber-cafes in a big city and still be stalked. Obviously there is no evidence of them having apprehended an al-qaeda terror operative using this technique, mostly because there is no such thing as an al-qaeda terror operative. However, there is writing analysis too, 'I'd' imagine that they know you use 'I'd' and you might want to start using 'I would' from now on just to foil their systems. Me, I am going to stop using the phrase 'The War Against Terror'...