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Re:Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traf... by ashtonkem on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:11AM (#22945738)
Metadata is incredibly useful in its own right, and spy agencies regularly record huge amounts of data in the hope that they can decrypt it in the future.
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Re:Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traf... by goatinaboat on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:07PM (#22948433)
Even if you can’t read a single packet, noting a surge in bandwidth utilisation is a signal in and of itself. But you probably can read the headers.
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