Comment Re:Companies aren't looking before they leap (Score 1) 173
>So you are claiming Amazon data mines customers of AWS?!
Yes. Yes they do. And if you can't think of how you are the idiot with a complete lack of imagination.
Measurements of encrypted traffic between known data sources can give huge amount of information about the amount and type of business your competitor is doing. For example, the amount of routed traffic to IP addresses held by credit card processors. Significant fluctuations can give lots of info about the health of the company. Packets being routed to china or other foreign nations can leak information about vendors.
Amazon is a top notch analytics company, and they can gain huge amounts of inside from secondary and tertiary sources, like DNS queries. Putting that data on your competitor's network is not only stupid, it could possibly be criminal under some SEC regulation.