Comments | thewayne: This is pretty cool: an alternative to TOR from MIT that automatically generates fake data!

thewayne

This is pretty cool: an alternative to TOR from MIT that automatically generates fake data!

Dec 14, 2015 05:36

From Slashdot yesterday:

MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com)Posted by timothy on Sunday December 13, 2015 @08:22AM from the can't-we-just-use-trolls? dept ( Read more... )

tor, privacy

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silveradept December 14 2015, 16:25:03 UTC

Seems like a lot of latency to add, but if someone stays protected, having a minute delay may be an acceptable risk.

thewayne December 16 2015, 12:29:29 UTC

Kind of reminds me of dialup. Latency like that would be a bitch for real-time chatting, but I think it'd be OK for emailing and surfing, i.e. general web work. I expect it's a one-shot delay after you send an email or go to a web site: once the web site starts sending info, you get the one delay up front but the rest streams through normally.

Sort of like satellite internet. Lousy for things like real-time games or chatting because of the flywheel latency, but otherwise OK for surfing. Not good, but OK.