The deal gives Nextlink a toehold in Europe, high-speed data lines, web-hosting and e-commerce services and the right to haul traffic for Internet service providers.

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The volume of traffic on large e-commerce sites provides an opportunity to make adjustments in Web page design and offers presented in near real-time.

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So far, Lewman says, Tor's developers haven't figured out how that probe is able to determine what's an encrypted connection to a Tor server and what's a connection to an encrypted banking or e-commerce site, which in theory should both look to a snooping government like indecipherably scrambled Web traffic.

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