{"id":1642,"date":"2015-07-13T14:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2021-09-08T23:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:37:48","slug":"webrtc-real-time-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/webrtc-real-time-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"WebRTC:  It Isn&#8217;t Just for Real Time Communications Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggeek.me\/webrtc-new-york-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post from WebRTC expert&nbsp;Tsahi Levent-Levi<\/a>&nbsp;points out that the New York Times has started using WebRTC to detect the private IP addresses of its readers. &nbsp; &nbsp;Because real time communication protocols need to know a user&#8217;s private LAN IP address to establish media sessions, this information is now available to any web server from a WebRTC compatible browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CJlYwyyWsAAaTaX.png\" alt=\"CJlYwyyWsAAaTaX\" class=\"wp-image-1643\" width=\"599\" height=\"280\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CJlYwyyWsAAaTaX.png 599w, https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CJlYwyyWsAAaTaX-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really&#8230; why is that interesting, you may be asking yourself? &nbsp; OK, maybe that was a bit of an exaggeration. &nbsp;But it is at least noteworthy. &nbsp;First, because it includes an except from a facebook forum exchange between SIP gurus&nbsp;Cullen Jennings (Cisco) and Michael Jerris (FreeSWITCH); and second because it highlights the old axiom about the unanticipated consequences of technology&nbsp;(or maybe the clever folks at Google had this use case in mind all along).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this a big deal? &nbsp;Maybe&#8230; maybe not. &nbsp; &nbsp;The NYT could be using this information for the completely legitimate reason of determining how many people on a given public IP address&nbsp;are reading articles behind it&#8217;s&nbsp;paywall. &nbsp;But&#8230; it is just one more example&nbsp;regarding the many ways that technology strips away you privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting blog post from WebRTC expert&nbsp;Tsahi Levent-Levi&nbsp;points out that the New York Times has started using WebRTC to detect the private IP addresses of its readers. &nbsp; &nbsp;Because real time communication protocols need to know a user&#8217;s private LAN IP address to establish media sessions, this information is now available to any web server&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[120,121],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-privacy","tag-webrtc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}