[tor-talk] Tor (and other nets) probably screwed by Traffic Analysis by now

[Jonathan Wilkes]

> Prediction market (place your bids):
> "First networks utilizing fill traffic as TA countermeasure to
emerge and reach early deployment by year end 2017..."
It's a bit off-topic, but it's worth keeping in mind what 
the greater free software community is good at-- like 
replicating data-- and what it isn't-- like hiding data.
For example-- if you've been afraid to look up something 
on Wikipedia for fear of typing "those words" into Google 
or Wikipedia, just download Wikipedia.  They have all the 
tools and docs to help you do that, with an archive format 
that probably fits very comfortably in your free hard drive 
space.
If anyone does this, you'll immediately notice the benefit 
of the approach: that cover traffic isn't just random 
data-- it's Wikipedia.  You can use it for future queries 
regardless of subject matter, with a greater probability of 
privacy than anything a future cover-traffic network can get 
you.
There are many other examples out there.  If you spend 
a little time each week thinking about this approach you'll 
find it changes how you use the web and internet.  Those 
changes will affect your values, and if enough people do 
this it obviously affects what we want and need out of a 
future cover-traffic network.
 
-Jonathan