But according to the report, the engineer suggested in his proposal that it was entirely intentional: "We are logging user traffic along with sufficient data to precisely triangulate their position at a given time, along with information about what they were doing".
Although FFmpeg was running constantly, it was capable of logging video traffic information only if the host's machine GPU was active (i.e., the host machine was not in hibernation, sleep or monitor energy saving mode).
But the following excerpt from the report doesn't quite sit so well with me: "We are logging user traffic along with sufficient data to precisely triangulate their position at a given time, along with information about what they were doing".
While other drivers are gawking at him, he is observing them: recording their maneuvers in his car's sensor logs, analyzing traffic flow, and flagging any problems for future review.
Starting earlier this year, Web police units directed the companies, which included joint ventures involving American corporations, to buy and install hardware to log the traffic of hundreds or thousands of computers, block selected Web sites, and connect with local police servers, according to industry executives and official directives obtained by The New York Times.
A second project, Alexa Internet, logged Internet traffic patterns and recommended sites.
We don't recommend any VPN in particular, but it should be a VPN that plainly states that it doesn't log your traffic.
Most VPNs cost money, and many will still log your traffic in order to comply with government requests.
Sniffing for traffic, logging incidents and responding has a whole new meaning.
Indoor shopping malls are ideal for the investigation of CPS behavior: they have a structured well understood layout, and they are increasingly equipped with public WiFi networks enabling the capture of the cyber and physical movement behavior of thousands of users by logging their Web traffic and WiFi Access Point (AP) associations.
