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It's more like that plate is already installed, fully listing the occupants and whether they are home or not, and you are objecting to putting on the lights since people on the street might see you're home.

Anyone who can either man-in-the-middle your traffic or is the intended recipient will be able to do fingerprinting based on your TCP/IP traffic. In addition, a lot of your traffic will likely be HTTP(S), in which case the recipient servers will also be able to set cookies, and perform various additional forms of fingerprinting to learn even more about you. The idea that hiding behind a single IP address gives you any protection is delusional.



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