Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce #DAITA.

Through constant packet sizes, random background traffic and data pattern distortion we are taking the first step in our battle against sophisticated traffic analysis.

When you connect to the internet through a #VPN (or the #Tor Network) your #IP address is masked, and your traffic is #encrypted and #hidden from your internet service provider. If you also use a #privacy-focused web browser, you make it harder for adversaries to monitor your activity through other #tracking technologies such as third-party cookies, pixels or browser #fingerprints.

But still, the mass surveillance of today is more sophisticated than ever, and a growing threat against #privacy is the analysis of patterns in encrypted communication through advanced traffic #analysis.

This is how AI can be used to analyze your traffic – even if it’s encrypted.

When you visit a website, there is an exchange of packets: your device will send network packets to the site you're visiting and the site will send packets back to you. This is a part of the very backbone of the internet. The fact that packets are being sent, the size of the packets, and how often they are sent will still be visible for your ISP, even if you are using a VPN (or the Tor network).

https://mullvad.net/de/blog/introducing-defense-against-ai-guided-traffic-analysis-daita

Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA)

Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.

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