BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons' wifi and find license-cheats
http://boingboing.net/2016/08/06/bbc-will-use-surveillance-powe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The BBC is relying on security through obscurity to make this work, and will not disclose their methods. The best guess is that the new detector vans will intercept wifi traffic and, without decrypting it, try to deduce (from packet sizes and timing) whether the network is carrying Iplayer traffic. The technique apparently relies on the fact that the BBC can control the Iplayer's streams to introduce nonstandard timing/size elements that will fingerprint it, even in cryptographically protected streams. - - - Who needs Russian spies when you've got the BBC? --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
