> Personally the idea of storing a ton of data isn't the best for me so rather I simply use Tor + private search engines and trust it to protect me. ton = ? -Jonathan
On Sunday, June 5, 2016 6:15 PM, "notfrien...@riseup.net" <notfrien...@riseup.net> wrote: On 2016-06-05 17:59, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >> Another idea is to use >> search engines that protect your privacy such as ixquick or duckduckgo >> (they store search queries but they don't track individuals (I.e they >> don't store your IP Address, as far as we know that is). > Those are solutions of a different kind. What I'm trying to describe > is > an "everyone gets everything" private information retrieval approach, > but where the "everything" stored on your machine has enormous value > to you, outside of its role as cover traffic. > -Jonathan > > > > On Sunday, June 5, 2016 4:49 PM, "notfrien...@riseup.net" > <notfrien...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > On 2016-06-05 13:38, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >>> Prediction market (place your bids): >>> "First networks utilizing fill traffic as TA countermeasure to >> emerge and reach early deployment by year end 2017..." >> It's a bit off-topic, but it's worth keeping in mind what >> the greater free software community is good at-- like >> replicating data-- and what it isn't-- like hiding data. >> For example-- if you've been afraid to look up something >> on Wikipedia for fear of typing "those words" into Google >> or Wikipedia, just download Wikipedia. They have all the >> tools and docs to help you do that, with an archive format >> that probably fits very comfortably in your free hard drive >> space. >> If anyone does this, you'll immediately notice the benefit >> of the approach: that cover traffic isn't just random >> data-- it's Wikipedia. You can use it for future queries >> regardless of subject matter, with a greater probability of >> privacy than anything a future cover-traffic network can get >> you. >> There are many other examples out there. If you spend >> a little time each week thinking about this approach you'll >> find it changes how you use the web and internet. Those >> changes will affect your values, and if enough people do >> this it obviously affects what we want and need out of a >> future cover-traffic network. >> >> -Jonathan > > The idea of downloading the Wikipedia archives is pretty good since it > doesn't note the content you were looking for. Another idea is to use > search engines that protect your privacy such as ixquick or duckduckgo > (they store search queries but they don't track individuals (I.e they > don't store your IP Address, as far as we know that is). > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk Absolutely whoever is monitoring (aka spying) on your traffic if they see you downloaded everything it's hard to determine what your looking for. Personally the idea of storing a ton of data isn't the best for me so rather I simply use Tor + private search engines and trust it to protect me. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk