Sunday 19 November 2017

“Obfuscation” by Finn Brunton

Completed on 7th of January 2017

Review:

An interesting account of huge amount of surveillance implemented on the Internet. Provides advice on the software add-ins to confuse the monitoring party. For example, a software TrackMeNot generates random search queries from our browser to hide our genuine ones and reshape our profile. The AdNauseam add-in clicks behind the screen on all the adds confusing the other party about the real ones selected by the user.

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