Re:Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fi...
by notriddle on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:48PM
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No. [The Tor people did the math on that][1]. It would probably spell the end of "unlimited home internet at X Mb/s" if it got widely used.
[1]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#SendPadding
Why not make some browser extensions that randomly connect to all sorts of websites and download random web pages?
There's plenty of bandwidth for us to do that these days, and your real browsing habits should be able to hide in the noise.
Of course, for something more sophisticated, the "random" browsing should statistically match real web browsing, to make traffic analysis more difficult.