wikipedia-inferer

[silky]

access to wikipedia isn't over https

i guess that means that you could write a thing that would look at the wikipedia-viewing-habits of say everyone on your network.

you could then decide things based on what you find. i.e. what type of thing most people at your office look up.

this would most likely lead to disturbing results.

[mobeets]

yes, ok! how does this work? why/how does http allow this?

[mobeets]

well, there's this...which could kinda do this but maybe in a less creepy way.

it's a live stream of wikipedia edits, so you could try to look out for certain IP ranges that are in a certain area? and then know what people in your local area are editing.

[silky]

i was thinking of using something like wireshark - http://wiki.wireshark.org/Tools - to look at the local traffic.

i just recall this being possible, i'm not sure of the details.

there appears to be this - http://pycap.sourceforge.net/