Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.

Through constant packet sizes, random background traffic and data pattern distortion we are taking the first step in our battle against sophisticated traffic analysis.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    I just think VPNs are over hyped. At the end of the day if someone is monitoring both sides it was game over a long time ago. Also there is no way to know what is on the other side of a VPN.

    What would be interesting is a paid I2P or Tor exit proxy.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Oh yeah, people thinking that VPNs are the end-all of Privacy and Security against eavesdropping in the Internet aren’t really informed enough to understand that there are quite a lot more attack vectors than just a person’s IP address.

      That said no-logging VPNs do remove one from the “low lying fruit” category for things like legal companies sending “gimme money because we detected you infringing our copyright” letters to people doing file sharing using things such as bittorrent. This is because they remove the easy way for such companies to get a person’s information when detecting file sharing from a specific IP address: one thing is getting the target by a process as simple as sending an e-mail to a local ISP demanding the identification of a user using a certain IP at a certain time due to copyright infringement (using the laws made for just that purpose during the last couple of decades in several countries), a whole different ball game is to first having to get a Court Order in an altogether different jurisdiction to force the VPN provider to install some kind of wiretap-equivalent to catch such a user at a later time for a case of Copyright Infringement - it costs way too much, takes way too much time and has way too much risk of being laughed out of court (methaphorically speaking) to be worth it for a case of non-commercial Copyright Infringement, especially if there is an overabundance of easier targets.

      As with everything else in this world, VPNs are good tools for certain jobs, not some kind of silver bullet for Privacy and Security against eavesdropping.

      • jet@hackertalks.com
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        6 months ago

        My philosophy is that a VPN is strictly better then your ISP logging all your traffic, and is part of basic data hygiene.