Archive for the ‘Anonymity Tips’ Category
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
A lot of times we are very interested in the identity of a certain webmaster.
Identifying a webmaster could be done in a few ways:
First, pulling the domain WHOIS records is the easiest part of the process. But not all domains/registrars will reveal that information.
The second thing you want to do ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
In the past few years, technology reached a point where you do not have to use wires to transfer information.
The anonymity level each user will have in a wireless world is incredible.
There are only two things that identifies you in a Wireless world, Your username/password and you MAC address.
You can ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Google have been doing a really good job on delivering the most relevant results to our search.
Google is able to do so by identifying our computer by using Cookies.
When you are logged in to your Google account, You will probably see different search results from those you would get if ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
A MAC Address is the unique identifier of your network interface.
Every Network card manufacturer has its own MAC Address prefix for its cards. For example:
"00-0C-F1-xx-xx-xx" is one of Intel's prefixes.
The rest of the MAC Address defines where the network card it is located in the world, and which distributor sold ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Using TOR or proxies just isn't enough, because a peek at your HTTP headers will partially reveal your identity.
HTTP Headers reveals these details on every user:
- IP
- Remote Port
- Host
- Browser (User Agent)
- Accepted Language
- Cookies Enabled/Disabled
- Javascript Enabled/Disabled
- Screen Resolution
- Operating System
- Java Enabled/Disabled
- Anti-Aliased Fonts Enabled/Disabled
- Color Depth
- ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Almost every file carries some MetaData along with it.
For example, Microsoft has a technology called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). This technology, among other things, holds many details (MetaData) regarding the identity of the author.
Details such as:
* Your name
* Your initials
* Your company or organization name
* The name of your ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Nowadays almost every search engine keeps cached pages.
It looks like this:
That means that whenever the search engine crawls a web page, it keeps a copy of it and allows the users of the search engine to visit the page from its database, rather than from the original website.
Viewing cached versions ...
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