<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">Meanwhile - even if a little bit off topic - a different approach is to hide the topic </span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">of interest by requesting the whole web-content under header i.e. „politics“ or „health“. </span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">I’ve done so here: </span><a href="http://newscleaner.net" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">http://newscleaner.net</a><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"> using a customized chrome browser that skips loading </span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">the linked in (advertiser network) javascript that do user-profiling (</span><a href="http://newsreadsus.okfn.de/" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">http://newsreadsus.okfn.de/</a><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"> </span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><a href="https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/the_web_never_forgets.pdf" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/the_web_never_forgets.pdf</a><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">) as a surplus. </span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">Andreas</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">Am 18.11.2014 um 11:06 schrieb Stephen Farrell <</span><a href="mailto:stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie</a><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">>:</span><br style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><blockquote type="cite" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br><br>On 17/11/14 20:59, Andreas Briese wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>For example, traffic to <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/">https://firstlook.org/theintercept/</a><br>is encrypted, but even a passive observer can tell<br>what articles I've read, just by looking at the file<br>sizes.<br><br></blockquote></blockquote>Do’nt know, if the example is valid here, since encryption says nothing<br>about traffic size. The interesting equation would be, if your IP<br>calling the site will be protected by standard or not, and if all nodes<br>between you and the site need to know about you calling for an article.<br></blockquote><br>Both HTTP/2 and TLS1.3 are looking at including traffic<br>padding mechanisms. I've not checked the latest drafts<br>for those but I think they should allow implementations<br>in future to do better at this issue.<br><br>S.</blockquote></div></span></span></div></body></html>