August 12, 2004
Thinking about web privacy
Go to this URL: Junkbusters: Alert on Web Privacy. It will tell you how much information your browser is sharing with web applications. How trackable you are on the web. I am thinking about all this because I just installed Tor which is a P2P network of onion routers that provides connection-oriented anonymizing. Hopefully it is a free version of the pay for Anonymizer service which operates private proxy servers. My experience with these cloaking services in the past is that they break too many sites and make surfing too hard. So many sites cookie you these days and require lots of openings in your browser to provide personalizization. Usually I don't mind this (Amazon, Ebay, Paypal, etc.) Many times I do. With my firewall I need to specify these settings on a site by site basis. That is too difficult also. What would be nice is if I could surf in stealth as default, but am asked/told when sites are looking for more information. And I don't mean just asking to accept cookies (the IE function). That is too low level an ask. Many sites cookie you 30 or 40 times. I want one ask and the computer to take care of the rest.
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March 28, 2004
Searching for someone?
Try the MESA search engine. Meta E-mail Search Agent. You can find almost anyone there. Also I just found some very private information using searchsystems.net. Watch out how you choose your e-mail names and what information you give to on-line sites if you don't want people tracking you. For the totally paranoid, there is always Anonymizer. I have used it quite successfully.
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