2020-01-03 21:57:02 +01:00
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# Blur My Searches
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2020-01-05 09:56:38 +01:00
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## Multiply your web searches to add irrelevant data to what is collected about you
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2020-01-03 21:57:02 +01:00
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2020-01-05 09:56:38 +01:00
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### This project has not been started yet.
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### This README is, for now, mainly here to guide the project, and will be tidied up later.
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2020-01-03 21:57:02 +01:00
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Totally untraced web browsing isn't possible. There are a lot of tools out there
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to make things better, but being totally anonymous is not possible, and having no
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data being collected is also not possible... unless you live in a cave, but then
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you wouldn't be reading this anyway.
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I'm sure this tool already exists in some form, but here's my version.
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## Usage
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The idea would be running the program in the background while browsing. It
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would gather anything that is searched and would *simultaneously* issue tens of
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other random searches.
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The randomness of these other searches could be fined tuned with dictionnaries of
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words so that the other searches would somewhat resemble the effective search.
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For example I'm buying shoes online, I type in 'boots', the program simultaneously
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searches the same website for 'sandals', 'santiags', 'socks', 'runners'... you get
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the idea.
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## Implementations expected
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The background program needs to know a few things:
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- When to issue a search (typically the user could just run the program manually
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when he/she wants to browse, but it would be better to issue searches at the precise
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same moment the user sends his/hers).
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- What the user types: keylogger? Or catch HTTP? What about HTTPS? Or read the
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GET request.
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- Obviously, which website the user is browsing.
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