— Search queries are routed through Disconnect's servers, "which makes the queries look like they're coming from Disconnect instead of a specific user's computer," the company says.
ORAM approaches shuffle the outsourced encrypted data structure with each data access to ensure that the executions of multiple identical/similar queries look entirely different and cannot be distinguished by the SP. The property of indistinguishable queries can only be guaranteed if there is access and pattern confidentiality.
Once the leaf nodes for all the cover searches are received, the nodes of each stage are shuffled by the client and written back to the B-Tree at the SP. Thus, the access patterns of two identical queries look different to the SP. However, since only e nodes are shuffled, the SP is still able to distinguish queries with a certain probability.
Spangenberg's lawyer, Barbara Figari, says that Uber employees had an easy way to get around the data access policy — they'd simply pull the customer's data into a project, making the query look like a product test rather than plain old snooping.
BP: Now I'm going to elaborate Mike on you're second part of you're question, which was Powerset launched and have we seen that users are actually doing anything regarding natural language and if the queries look at all different.
At the top of the Reactome BioMart web interface are buttons allowing users to see what their queries look like in the web services API query and the URL/XML format.
HexDD is a geographical routing protocol based on this virtual infrastructure concept, proposing rendezvous regions for events (data caching) and queries (look-up).
As AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr writes today, a regular database query looks at data that is basically static.
"If the number of queries looking for copyrighted works is massive, that's only because the number of searches on Google in general is massive".
The company, which had started under the unwieldy name "Emailshopper," was originally a site for collectors who sent in E-mail queries looking for specific items.
