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		marcosdumay on Nov 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log ... There's stuff there about cryptography too, but the logging is about metadata. For metadata things are the opposite of your logic. It is always accessible. Whatever protocol you create to hide it, will have holes; Math dictates it.

ronald_raygun on Nov 23, 2016 [–]

Is that true though? I thought the point of protocols like Tor was that it makes gathering the metadata very very expensive.

marcosdumay on Nov 23, 2016 | [–]

Yes, expensive. That means it's perfectly doable (and was already done a few times).

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