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New security loophole allows spying on internet users visiting websites and watching videos - EurekAlert


Online activities can be monitored in detail simply by analysing latency fluctuations in the internet connection, researchers at Graz University of Technology have discovered. The attack works without malicious code or access to the data traffic.

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