• @AgreeableLandscape
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    3 years ago

    Meta analysis of encrypted traffic is more powerful than you think. By analyzing things like the length and timing of requests and responses, researchers have been able to determine what search term a user typed (through the auto-completion suggestions being sent back), what images and videos are being viewed, which threads on a forum they accessed, among other things, without ever decrypting the HTTPS data.