Thanks to Mark Klein, we know that the NSA wiretaps in the US are passive in nature, not active.
We know that *back then* *one* of their possible tap systems was passive. All thanks due of course.
But who knows what they do [...]
... today, to whoever.
I don't think The Man can correlate millions of simultaneous web page views and expect to have certainty over who is viewing what at all times. At some point, you simply run out of differentiating bits to extract from size and timing information to properly segment the userbase.
It's now possible to do well timed rx/tx at 10Gb line rate on a single commodity system (FreeBSD, Linux)... http://www.ntop.org/products/nprobe/ http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ http://www.ntop.org/products/pf_ring/ http://www.ntop.org/blog/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE