One of the surveillance attacks pointed out in the post is the NSA piggybacking on advertising cookies. Details in the Snowden leaks were scant, so we did some

One of the surveillance attacks pointed out in the post is the NSA piggybacking on advertising cookies. Details in the Snowden leaks were scant, so we did some research to figure out just how far the NSA could go with this technique. Very far, as it turns out. Here's a blog post with a link to our research paper: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dreisman/cookies-that-give-you-away-the-surveillance-implications-of-web-tracking/ https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dreisman/cookies-that-giv... One of our conclusions was that tracking companies switching to HTTPS would help, but a large majority would have to switch to make any difference, because of the sheer number of trackers (Section 4.1). This proposal or something like it is probably necessary if we're to see that magnitude of change.