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And, I've found no solution regarding polluting your history with obfuscated searches. If I, Mr. Spy Provider, start seeing a single user who has every possibl
by kefka 12y ago
And, I've found no solution regarding polluting your history with obfuscated searches.
If I, Mr. Spy Provider, start seeing a single user who has every possible documentable illness, that user's search has been polluted and is worthless.
So, how does one do this? Someone needs to write a search algo that pulls 100 crap medical searches for every good one. All you need to do is query the 1px image on the page. I'm guessing that could be done with 10KB/illness search for privacy pollution.
Should we have to? No. But this is the reality we live in. We can use the tools to keep us from being "found", but we still are querying the server the content is on. Nothing we can do about them selling that log. But we can pollute that log.
- dredmorbius 12y agoSadly I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that fuzzing all search traffic in this manner is becoming a necessity. My concern is that it's still not sufficient. As Bruce Schneier notes, computers are exceptionally good at finding needles in haystacks, and even highly fuzzed data contains signal. That said, there are browser extensions which run random/arbitrary background Web queries.
- kefka 12y agoI would tentatively agree. Fuzzing does appear that it might work, but given the current corpus of what the spy companies have, this is probably a bad avenue of approach. Instead, lets use The Pirate Bay. We can build a scrape of WebMD and a few other places. The front page would have every disease WebMD has. And then we upload it to TPB. Highly illegal, but it does solve the problem of tracking our individual illnesses. Thoughts?
- dredmorbius 12y agoWikipedia is frequently as good, and occasionally a better reference, than WebMD or other sources (I generally prefer Mayo to WebMD which is frankly spammy as fuck). And Wikipedia's fully syndicable. Improve Wikipedia medical content, syndicate. Problem solved, laws unflouted.
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