And in case someone thinks that's the hard part, note that tagging the packets is pretty easy. Just send a pattern of large-packet,small-packet,large-packet,small-packet .... ; and look for that pattern.

Just spam the .onion site with tons of that traffic, and look on the relay nodes you control for whichever machine they're sending the most of that pattern.

https://gigaom.com/2006/07/22/...

Yet the camera marketing companies keep spinning them as ways to provide money to cities.

In reality, that only works for the rare city where most drivers are from out of town.

I think the best of both worlds is to have the live system in the cloud, but have on site backups of all those systems.

That way if/when the cloud dies, you can still have access to all your data.

Thank you for making that distinction.

I liked using Ruby before ever seeing Rails, and have a moderate dislike for Rails.

I wish people would stop judging Ruby for one IMHO awkward and bloated framework.

Does that mean they think they're allowed to hack whatever banks and stock markets they want in foreign countries?

If so - imagine how effectively they might go after financial crimes.

Or is this just for when the FBI wants to overlap with the DEA on wars on drugs?

And imagine how much money they could make licensing insider information of stock markets of enemy countries.

Might even be part of their job descriptions, if their job is to undermine such countries. It probably works better to destablize an enemy's economy than sanctions.

I don't think that's what they're targeting.

Wouldn't be surprised if the real target are environmentalists who complain about aggressive logging.

Sure it could.

For example, Boeing could take the $4B and spend $5B on R&D having negative profit; while SpaceX could take the $2B and make $1B profit.

But then Boeing's technology will have improved by $5B in R while SpaceX's will have only benefited 1/5th as much