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Re: internet probe can track you within 690 m

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Mon Apr 11 19:08:28 2011

In-Reply-To: <0137CB93-D268-463D-9102-EEBD257B3B51@americafree.tv>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:08:21 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> wrote:
>
...
> It would also be easy to institute something like the old GPS selective availability, with a software tunnel randomly adding a variable
> delay (say, varying by up to 50 msec every 100 seconds).
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>

Heck...with the amount of buffer bloat in place, I just keep a few
torrents running
on my T1, and the buffer bloat ensures there's always a nice 100-200msec of
extra variability on the RTTs, no extra tunnels needed.  ;-)

Matt


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