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Tsume
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reply to Combat Chuck

Re: Could it be reliable?

I'm not sure I quite understand the concept here.

Wouldn't a simple firewall defeat this? If they can't connect to a user anyway, if the pings are timed out, how would they trace it then? Or is it based off of the last hop? If it is then from what I know this wouldn't be too accurate.

Can someone enlighten me to this? I just don't feel that I understand it quite well. I'm sure the NSA didn't throw billions of dollars at a worthless concept though, so I know this has to work somehow.
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Combat Chuck
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said by Tsume:

Can someone enlighten me to this? I just don't feel that I understand it quite well. I'm sure the NSA didn't throw billions of dollars at a worthless concept though, so I know this has to work somehow.
I don't know; People just seem to be convinced that it can't work because of variability in the net, all I'm saying is that the variability isn't an issue if you take enough samples.

As for the firewall, I imagine that part of the plan is to become trusted somehow (ie:a rogue app).
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Tsume
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Ahh, that makes much more sense.

So pretty much the same concept of social engineering behind most trojan horses
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