Researchers are using AI to hack encrypted traffic so they can see when you’re on YouTube

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by Sindy Cator on March 17, 2016 at 11:15 am

Google is taking the lead on trying to move the whole Web over to ‘secure’ HTTPS browsing – indeed the company rather bravely admitted that even it’s falling short for its users – but there’s another snag. Lots of researchers are already using machine learning techniques to demonstrate that this is all kind of junk. The latest is a university team in Israel that has published a paper showing they were able to identify your OS, browser and what program you’re using on desktop up to a 96 percent accuracy rate on 20,000 pieces of data gathered. The team looked at traffic at the network level being…