Yes, they are mapping human networks because humans are the weakest link in any security. Once you know who’s talking with whom, when, where, and how frequently, you can essentially get anything you need by finding the weakest links and exploiting them.
It’s kinda funny because 90% of the traffic is just going to be people connecting to whatever online service with known public IPs. But I guess that tells you what household is using what online service. Maybe which businesses are doing network communication with what other businesses i.e. they have some kind of data integration, etc.
Plus you can (sometimes) easily correlate an IP address with an online advertising ID…
Another interesting thing to know would be how detailed the routing table information different countries and intelligence agencies have. You can easily use a service that can tell you where you are located based on your IP address, but it’s usually limited to city, state/province, or country. I wonder if for example, the US has the routing tables for specific Chinese neighborhoods or specific houses or apartments.
Yes, they are mapping human networks because humans are the weakest link in any security. Once you know who’s talking with whom, when, where, and how frequently, you can essentially get anything you need by finding the weakest links and exploiting them.
It’s kinda funny because 90% of the traffic is just going to be people connecting to whatever online service with known public IPs. But I guess that tells you what household is using what online service. Maybe which businesses are doing network communication with what other businesses i.e. they have some kind of data integration, etc.
Plus you can (sometimes) easily correlate an IP address with an online advertising ID…
Another interesting thing to know would be how detailed the routing table information different countries and intelligence agencies have. You can easily use a service that can tell you where you are located based on your IP address, but it’s usually limited to city, state/province, or country. I wonder if for example, the US has the routing tables for specific Chinese neighborhoods or specific houses or apartments.
There’s an old exercise that shows you dont even have to exploit them. Just knowing the metadata can tell you a loooot.