Apart from that... your argument is that you don't need global traffic analysis to identify users, right? Well, probably this is true. You need enough intelligence to see "hrrm, this user has VoIP connections to these 5 other users 24x7... this doesn't seem very likely!". Right?
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:12:29PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, jrandom at i2p.net wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Quite simply, my argument is that most ISPs don't take even the most > > > basic cybersecurity precautions (spoofing protection) at the user end. > > > Therefore it is reasonable to assume that for them to install > > > significant traffic analysis on every user would be quite expensive. > > > > This assumes that the traffic analysis required is significant. My colo > > provider disagrees. > > > > > My french isn't really good enough to get to grips with that paper; what > > > exactly DID they say about traffic flow analysis? It *looks* like they > > > said it wasn't feasible except on a very localised level with current > > > technology... right? > > > > Identifying whether the content transmitted is illicit is much harder than > > telling whether there is content being transmitted. > > > > I'll leave it to a geek fluent in french to clarify the paper, though there > > were several sections discussing a wide variety of commercially available > > tools for various aspects of traffic analysis. > > Indeed, and all but one were either signature analysis or content > analysis tools. > > > Monitoring for abnormal > > traffic doesn't need to be global - it is sufficient to work at a very > > localised level. > > > > =jr > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20051012/0db59400/attachment.pgp>
