[Nottingham] Spooks ..

[Jason]

"As someone who's been  in the caching business, and someone who now
manages a network of several hundred thousand sites (and several thousand
servers) I can assure you,  at least in part, that there's nothing as
boring as looking at what people are browsing."

No but to a search algorithm this is just its bread and butter.

Computers like dumb tasks much better that humans.

"As long as the majority of the noise on the web is banners, Spam and porn
then the miniscule amount of  stuff  we all push around isin no danger
of being read."

Google does what exactly?

It search snapshots of the web.

Traffic Analysis is very hard to do in REAL TIME.

Do it in Day snapshots ...    And you have Google.

    Echelon (UK/Europe)  CIA/FBI(USA)

Remember there is a lot of money for this being made available.


Another POV

Think of clickstream analysis. The data that we can acquire on that.

Look at the ISPs MSN/AOL they clickstream all their users sessions.

And use it for the innocent idea of marketing.

A few different queries and you have...




Look in the ClickStream
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