Eugen Leitl wrote, [on 9/21/2009 8:59 PM]: > http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/?page=full > > The Boston Globe > > Project ‘Gaydar’ > > At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new > questions about online privacy
Yet another way in which traffic analysis [1] reveals rather more information than people might expect. I find it fascinating to speculate about possible countermeasures. A couple that come to mind: * Network as promiscuously as possible, so that traffic analysis shows you as 'belonging' to n possible networks, where n is a suitably large number. * Encourage all people in your various groups to do the same. Udhay [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
