Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data

Re:Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tra... by jstapels on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:05AM (#14003263)

Not to sound pessimistic, but as more and more people get forced into metered bandwidth, how is using a plugin that generates extra random traffic "sticking it to the 'man'"?

Edit: Yes, I know this is supposed to mask your actual viewing habits. But security through obscurity has never really panned out for anyone in the end.

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Re:Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tra... by dullgiulio on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:21AM (#14003410)

This is not security through obscurity, this is obfuscation. Like everything in security, it's not all-or-nothing. It adds valuable noise, it won't hide your tracks.

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Re:Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tra... by arekkas on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:07AM (#14003280)

Adding variance always messes with statistical models and thus anything related to big data analytics, which internet surveillance is all about.

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Re:Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tra... by threepipeproblm on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:23AM (#14003444)

Is 'it uses bandwidth' really a valid criticism of this? I would say no.

It's also not really "security by obscurity", which I believe refers to situations where techniques uses to secure a system are kept quiet in the hopes no one will figure them out. Here we have a system that is already breached and the point is to defeat analysis. Most analytic techniques I can think of would be defeated by the right kind of "noise", despite the fact that there may awareness that the noise is in there.

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Re:Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tra... by russdpale on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:10AM (#14003302)

Individually it doesn't do much. The bigger point is the render the data as useless.

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