On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 at 17:48 Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think that we should be overly concerned about the constant > shift between WiFi and cellular connections for a device that happily > flip-flops between the two. We might be concerned about ensuring that > what happens at home does not accidentally propagate to the workplace > (and vice versa). We considered this as the "wikileaks" case. A user who creates a wikileaks background sync at home may not want that to fire at work. Given that background sync is only available over https, there isn't the MITM worry in terms of observing data transmitted, but yeah the destination IP could be observed. However, the observer wouldn't be able to reliably tell posting to wikileaks apart from the user pressing "w" in their location bar, it autocompleting to wikileaks and triggering a preload request. Both of these issues are solved by private browsing modes.
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