Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris...
by jstarfish on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:01PM
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The irony is that with more and more sites wanting to be "portals", more traffic is centralized within a single domain and none of the lateral movements are visible to the ISP.
Then: You go to foxnews.com, then you go to pornhub.com. Based on hostnames we can make some inferences about you and your behaviors.
Now: You go to reddit.com(/thedonald), then you go to reddit.com(/twerkinggifs). Thanks to HTTPS, the specific subs you're visiting aren't visible to the ISP; all they can see is you going to reddit a bunch of times.
Then: You go to foxnews.com, then you go to pornhub.com. Based on hostnames we can make some inferences about you and your behaviors.
Now: You go to reddit.com(/thedonald), then you go to reddit.com(/twerkinggifs). Thanks to HTTPS, the specific subs you're visiting aren't visible to the ISP; all they can see is you going to reddit a bunch of times.