By Eleanor Saitta (@dymaxion)
Resistance is futile, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from myxi photostream
Modern city dwellers are being tracked in hundreds of ways. From cell phone surveillance to DNS tracking.
Eleanor illustrates the vast numbers of records generated by Joe Sixpack as he travels from his home to his desk in the office. You have been awake all of 2 hours and at least 30 government agencies and double that amount of commercial agencies have stored information about you.
There are a few problems around surveillance:
- Secondary uses
- Buying and sharing data
- Sunk cost
- Opportunity leads to abuse
- Equality versus aggregation
A typical telco gets about one location request per 10 subscribers, excluding 911, secret service and law enforcement requests.
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The Tor project is a non-profit organization that has a full documented network that provides anonymity and privacy by design and is fully documented. Tor is funded by both the US DoD, EFF, Voice of America, Human Rights Watch, Google, NLnet, and you?
Tor is really a community of developers and volunteers and is still looking for developers and volunteers to enhance themselves.
Top countries in the world in bandwidth:
• Germany
• USA
• Netherlands
• France
• Sweden
Anonymity means different things to different people:
• Private citizens – Privacy
• Government – Traffic analysis resistance
• Human rights activists – Reachability
• Businesses – Network Security
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One month ago we blogged about my interview for Security Justice. Yesterday I got a tweet from Security Justice that the recording of my interview is now available.
To my surprise the interview turned out a lot better then I remembered it.
This talk is about privacy. Privacy is good, but it is also a haven for “evildoers”. It also hurts law enforcement and prevents social control.
Privacy is broken, because it is too complex. One of the ways to measure this is to see if the users IP address can be obtained. This is the gold standard.
Rsnake and Jabra demonstrated client site exploits that will defeat common proxy techniques such as classic HTTP proxies, CGI proxies, SOCKS proxies, and Tor.
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