On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Which kind of ignores the issue that encrypting with ssl doesn't do a > lot against traffic analysis, when its publicly known how big the > pages you're downloading are, and how many images/other assets they > have on them. NSA certainly has the resources to do this if they want. > > > If you can do this sort of thing: > http://blog.ioactive.com/2012/02/ssl-traffic-analysis-on-google-maps.html > against google maps, I imagine it should be much simpler to do > something like that for Wikipedia. (Our data has more variation in it, > and the data is all publicly available) > > --bawolff > > Time to start adding a random amount of extra packets with each request? :) James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
