Comment on Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
ski11erboi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Can anyone ELI5? From what I’m understanding all this does is give them an idea how many people are using VPNs? If that’s all why is using AI necessary?
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Since they give no indication of how they’re doing it or what information they’re gathering, no one can really explain. It may be some kind of traffic analysis where an AI provides heuristic recognition of probable VPN traffic.
exu@feditown.com 2 days ago
It’s trivial to find most VPN traffic by looking at some packets. No idea why they need AI
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita
ski11erboi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank you this answers my question!
TLDR basically the size and frequency of data being sent to and from a website acts like a digital fingerprint even if ISPs can’t see what’s in those data packets. Looks like there’s an easy fix by having VPNs add random background noise data.
ftbd@feddit.org 2 days ago
It sounds sophisticated to the layman