Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Two of the most common Toolbars used by millions of people are Google Toolbar and Alexa Toolbar.
Google Toolbar offers Pagerank information of every website we visit.
That means, if we have Google toolbar installed, and we type yahoo.com in the address bar (without using google's search engine), Google will still know ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
We recently added a PHP Proxy to AnonWatch.
AnonWatch will NEVER store any information regarding the users of our Web Proxy.
You can use the link at the top of this page, or just click here
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Every person that wishes to buy a Domain Name has to do it through a domain registrar.
Upon registration, the registrar asks for the following Information:
- Full Name
- Business Name
- Telephone Number
- Home/Work Address
- E-Mail Address
Almost every registrar will verify in one way or another that all of the details you ...
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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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