Congress's party-line vote will allow ISP's to exploit your family's private data without your consent. See "Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy".
This script is designed to defeat this violation by generating large amounts of realistic, random web browsing to pollute ISP data and render it effectively useless by obfuscating actual browsing data.
I pay my ISP a lot for data usage every month. I typically don't use all the bandwidth that I pay for. If my ISP is going to sell private browsing habits, then I'm going to pollute browsing with noise and use all the bandwidth that I pay for. This method accomplishes this.
If everyone uses all the data they've paid for to pollute their browsing history, then perhaps ISPs will reconsider the business model of selling customer's private browsing history.
The alternative of using a VPN or Tor merely pushes the issue onto to the choice of VPN provider, complicates networking, and adds the real issue of navigating captchas when appearing as a Tor exit node. Also, merely encrypted traffic has too much exploitable side-channel information, and could still be used to determine when specific family members are at home, and the activities in which they're engaged.
This crawler uses the Python selenium with phantomjs library, uses blacklists for undesirable websites (see the code for details), does not download images, and respects robots.txt, which all provide good security.
Data pollution is one component of privatizing your personal data. Install the EFF's HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger on all browsers. Also see the repos osxfortress and osx-openvpn-server to block advertising, trackers, and malware across devices.
Using a privatizing proxy to pool your own personal traffic with the data pollution traffic adds another layer of obfuscation with header traffic control. HTTP headers from the polluted traffic appear as:
GET /products/mens-suits.jsp HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,*
Host: www.bananarepublic.com
Connection: keep-alive
A fews seconds of random crawling looks like this:
Added 1 links, 29045 total at url 'https://www.diapers.com/l/best-gifts-for-mom?ref=b_scf_leg_best_gifts_for_mom&icn=b_scf_leg&ici=best_gifts_for_mom'.
Added 1 links, 29045 total at url 'http://bananarepublic.gap.eu/browse/category.do?cid=1025790'.
Added 200 links, 29244 total at url 'http://www.bananarepublic.ca/products/mens-suits.jsp'.
Added 1 links, 29244 total at url 'http://cyworld.com.cy/en/jurisdictions/estonia7'.
Added 1 links, 29244 total at url 'http://bananarepublic.gap.eu/browse/category.do?cid=1025788'.
Added 2 links, 29245 total at url 'https://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/1337873-cyber-threat-vulnerability-analysis-electric-sector'.
Added 1 links, 29245 total at url 'https://www.amazon.com/30th-Anniversary-Collection-Time-Greatest/dp/B00000334E/ref=sr_1_9/153-5801643-0200824?ie=UTF8&qid=1491060352&sr=8-9&keywords=Paul+Anka'.
Added 40 links, 29284 total at url 'http://www.bendixking.com/Products/Displays'.
Added 1 links, 29284 total at url 'http://www.thefreedictionary.com/arid'.
Added 47 links, 29330 total at url 'http://www2.beltrailway.com/unemployment-sickness-benefits-for-railroad-employees/'.
The screenshot of a randomly crawled web page looks like this. Note that there are no downloaded images.
driver.get_screenshot_as_file('his_all_time_greatest_hits.png'):
python3 isp_data_pollution.py
Depending upon your Python (v. 3) installation, the module dependencies are numpy, requests, selenium, and Faker, as well as phantomjs. How you install these depends upon your OS.
This involves choosing a Python (v. 3) package manager, typically pip or Anaconda.
I like pip, so on my machines I would say:
sudo pip-3.4 install numpy requests selenium Faker
I also like MacPorts for native builds, so I might also use:
sudo port install py34-numpy py34-requests phantomjs
Figure out how to install these libraries on your OS, and the script will run.
This is what was necessary on macOS:
sudo port install phantomjs
sudo -H pip-3.4 install selenium
# if phantonjs fails to build because of an Xode configuration error: test with
/usr/bin/xcrun -find xcrun
# then do this:
cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/
sudo ln -s xcodebuild xcrun