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		codedokode on Aug 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pir... My observation is that if you use a tunnel not for VPN (which typically uses one long connection) but for a SOCKS proxy (which requires a new connection for every proxied connection) then the timings strongly resemble real HTTPS timings.

ruthmarx on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

Observation as in observed and tested, or observation as in a speculation?

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