17 May, 2008

Chaff

I don't want the Phorm spyware to become a recurring topic here, but this technique for defeating traffic-analysing trackers is too good to avoid mentioning.

AntiPhormLite is a secondary browser which continuously, automatically yet plausibly browses the web as a background process or whilst one is genuinely accessing the web, thereby generating masses of utterly spurious data. No attempt is made to block the tracker, but all it'll get is junk.

Nice thinking.