Monday, March 31, 2014

Metadata - Another experiment that shows how much information it can reveal


Most people don't care about their data.
Some people care about data but ignore metadata
Few people care about metadata. I think everyone should care about data and metadata.



According to the article:- 


Despite the vast amount of data, it's just as easy to store as it is to interpret. “It works out to only a few kilobytes per person for everyone on the planet,” Weaver added. In other words, if I had the access, it'd cost just a few thousand dollars to have enough consumer-grade storage to keep data on everyone in the United States

Looking up that IP on myip.ms turned up not only the city, but one of two possible street addresses as well.

“The biggest reason why the NSA thinks Tor stinks is that it's actually really hard to link user activity to people,” he said. “Because the [Tor browser] bundle operates [by default] with no cookies and [doesn’t allow JavaScript]. The browser bundle is allowed to not have linkages across sessions. Every time you exit the tor browser it looks like a new user


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