http://philosecurity.org/2008/12/29/nsa-another-blow-against-internet-anonymity Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://philosecurity.org/2008/12/29/nsa-another-blow-against-internet-anonymity/comment-page-1#comment-4090 Kersmatter Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:28:45 +0000 http://philosecurity.org/?p=304#comment-4090 without reading all of the links, i think anonymity nets like the tor onion router (and offshoots) may make it difficult to use this method. without reading all of the links, i think anonymity nets like the tor onion router (and offshoots) may make it difficult to use this method.

]]> http://philosecurity.org/2008/12/29/nsa-another-blow-against-internet-anonymity/comment-page-1#comment-3970 mkouts Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:32:55 +0000 http://philosecurity.org/?p=304#comment-3970 Actually, they had this idea much earlier. I remember to have a conversation about possibility of using our distributed computer network for this purpose back in 2000. If somebody is really concerned with this particular method of net location tracking there is still something that can be done relatively easy. Some code may be injected in the network layer (as done by network simulators like NIST) to artificially delay packets in such a way that it will make it impossible to rely on the latency information only. Actually, they had this idea much earlier. I remember to have a conversation about possibility of using our distributed computer network for this purpose back in 2000. If somebody is really concerned with this particular method of net location tracking there is still something that can be done relatively easy. Some code may be injected in the network layer (as done by network simulators like NIST) to artificially delay packets in such a way that it will make it impossible to rely on the latency information only.

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