On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Ian Grant <ian.a.n.gr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Bret Lambert <bret.lamb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:48:22PM +0200, Martin Schr??der wrote: >>> 2014-10-16 13:16 GMT+02:00 Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk>: >>> The impossibility to scan for services - which the NSA/GHCQ/... do. >> >> It's a good thing that traffic analysis isn't a thing, then. Otherwise >> they'd be able to check if traffic purporting to go to port 80/443 >> doesn't look like HTTP traffic, or something. > > They don't have any clue which traffic to analyze though, so this > traffic is a needle in a haystack. Also, the VPN could be tunneled > over HTTP if necessary. > > Ian >
Right. Because the NSA/GHCQ don't have the resources to accomplish such a goal.
