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Submission + - Privacy for Piracy. Exclusive Interview with Suren Ter from YouHaveDownloaded (privateinternetaccess.com) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @03:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: Suren Ter discusses privacy, piracy and the future of filesharing. Suren procued the virally popular YouHaveDownloaded.com, which displays all downloads on the public BitTorrent network associated with an IP address. A very provocative read!

Submission + - Locate any WiFi router by its MAC address

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coderrr

on Friday September 12, 2008 @12:46AM

coderrr writes: "SkyHook Wireless has been wardriving the US for years creating a huge database mapping wireless routers' MAC addresses to their physical locations. They provide an undocumented API which allows anyone to query the database directly for any MAC address. This could potentially allow some malicious individual to find out exactly where you live. Of course for them to get the MAC of your router in most cases will require either being infected with malware or some sort of social engineering attack... Imagine if you got a phishing email which included your home address."

Submission + - Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling (wordpress.com) 1

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coderrr

on Monday June 30, 2008 @07:39AM

coderrr writes: "New research could allow ISPs to selectively block or slow down your encrypted traffic even if they cannot snoop on your transmitted data. Italian researchers have found a way to categorize the type of traffic that is hidden inside an encrypted SSH session to around 90% accuracy. They are achieving this by analyzing packet sizes and inter-packet intervals instead of looking at the content itself. Challenges remain for ISPs to implement this technology, but it's clear that encrypting your traffic inside an SSH session or VPN connection is not a solution to protect net neutrality."

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