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Re: [Cryptography] HTTP should be deprecated.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Tue Nov 19 23:38:18 2013
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From: dan@geer.org
To: Alan Braggins <alan.braggins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:04:32 GMT."
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:02:41 -0500
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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| Though seeing what addresses you look at can tell them a lot of
| that, even if they can't read the content.
| https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters
quoting my own sorry ass and all the lameness that implies,
We have known for some time that traffic analysis is more
powerful than content analysis. If I know everything about to
whom you communicate including when, where, with what inter-message
latency and at what length, then I know you. If all I have is
the undated, unaddressed text of your messages, then I am an
archaeologist, not a case officer. The soothing mendacity of
proxies for the President saying "It's only metadata" relies
on the ignorance of the listener.
--dan
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