I don't think I'm in disagreement, but it seems to me that the last question would benefit from a bit of refining.
What the term 'metadata' reasonably means depends a great deal on the specifics of the situation; and 'your metadata' is a problematical notion. Very broadly, metadata is everything that's in the headers and any associated data, but nothing that's in the body of the message. However, each node on the path between the two parties sees a somewhat different set of headers. So it makes sense to talk about a particular node's metadata, but less sense to refer to the requester's metadata or the message's metadata. ______________________________________________________________________ At 14:39 +1100 6/12/16, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >A somewhat technical question. > >If you use https, the contents of your interchange are encrypted. >However, the fact that you have gone to a particular IP address is still >in the clear. > >So if you go to www.nastysite.com and use https, the metadata would >still show that you have had a session with that website. > >Correct? > >However, if you create a VPN first e.g. via tor, the fact that you have >visited www.nastysite.com (using http or https) would not be visible in >your metadata. > >Correct? > >Thanks. > >-- > >Regards >brd > >Bernard Robertson-Dunn >Sydney Australia >email: [email protected] >web: www.drbrd.com >web: www.problemsfirst.com >Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog > >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
