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PRIVACY ANALYSIS |
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Invasion of Privacy. How vunerable are you on the
net...!
Analysis
of your Internet Connection - How it works
Your
IP address : This
is your Internet 'identity' and is similar to a telephone
number. Everyone has an IP address to communicate
on the Internet. It is possible to block IP's
from accessing a site or provide custom content to
specific IP's. Your IP could be the same each
time you log on (static) or your provider or company
may provide a different one (from a pool that they
own) each time you log on (dynamic).
Your
Internet surfing may also go through a 'proxy' which
is another computer that gets the web pages for you
and then sends you the pages via an internal network.
This could happen via a business network, cable modem,
or you can use another computer on the Internet.
Your computer name (if it has one) : If
you computer is configured as part of network that
uses a domain your computer will have a "host name."
This is optional as using just an IP address will
always work. The IP addresses are difficult
to remember so domain names were invented to replace
them.
The system attempted to place the following persistent
cookies on your system : A cookie is
a text file placed on your system. According
to the specification, only the site that placed the
cookie can retrieve it when visiting a web site (of
course, it is available to anyone who has access to
your hard drive). A persistent cookies
stays on the system until the expiration date.
These are used to track repeat visitors over a long
period. A "session" cookie expires in a short
time interval or "session" which is set by the web
site. This type of cookie is used for shopping
carts, searches, and other short-term uses.
You linked from here : This is the
'referrer' information. Most browsers send this
information to the web site when a link is clicked.
This is used by sites to see where visitors clicked
from and what search terms are used to find the site.
Your Browser Type, Operating System : Again,
most browsers send this information when a request
is made. This information is used to provide
different information to the user based on their
browser type. For instance the screen resolution
and viewable window are detected from the browser
and is done in a slightly different way for different
versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer.
In older versions it won't work at all.
Trace Route : this is a
program that documents each 'hop' your signal takes
going through the Internet. Usually, this goes
from the user to their Internet provider then to the
users 'backbone' provider (a 'backbone' provider is
a major provider that can transfer data with most
of the other major providers). This 'backbone'
provider transfers the signal to the Consumer.net
'backbone' provider and eventually the signal gets
to the Consumer.net server.
Who registered your domain : This
looks at the computer name, truncates the beginning,
and looks at just the domain name (such as Consumer.net,
AOL.com, Pacific, Sify, Mantra, etc.) A lookup
is performed to the domain registration database (which
is publicly available) and the results are displayed.
How is your domain configured : When
a domain is configured on the Internet certain information
is made available in the domain name server (DNS)
configuration file. An 'nslookup' is performed
on your domain name. This downloads the domain
name configuration file for your domain.
Who owns your network : This also
uses the Internet registration database. A 'WHOIS'
command is performed on the users IP address.
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HOW YOU ARE TRACKED
ON THE NET |
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Banner ad networks are now starting to track users,
not only on a single site, but across many sites.
A banner ad network creates a large network of web
sites that carry their banners. The Banner ad network
requires each web site to set up the ads so they
are downloaded from their site server. Once this
happens, the banner ad network can now place an
"Internet Cookie" file on each visitor's
hard drive. They also log the date, time, site visited,
and the IP address of the user. As long as the users
accept the "cookie" they can be tracked
across all of the sites.
Some
sites also require registration. Most sites will
ask for several pieces of information such as e-mail
address, phone number, credit card number, etc.
Now the user signs up for e-mail updates and accepts
HTML e-mail. When HTML e-mail is used the images
displayed may be downloaded over the Internet. When
this happens the web site where the image was downloaded
now has a record of when the e-mail was opened and
other information that would normally be collected
when a user visits a web site.
This
tactic can also be used to trace 'anonymous' e-mail
accounts and is used by law enforcement as well
as marketers. All the user has to do is open the
HTML e-mail to be traced to a specific IP address
(as long as the computer is connected to the Internet
and processes HTML e-mail). Even if the cookie is
not read (such as being blocked by privacy software)
the web server will still detect the request and
will record the usre's IP address. By giving each
user a unique URL the user's IP address can be linked
to the e-mail address. Note that user can still
be traced without ever sending a single e-mail ...
just by opening the e-mail that is received......
The users Internet profile is now linked to several
other databases. Information such as the number
of bedrooms in the house, magazines subscribed to,
traffic tickets, civil court claims, employment
history, credit information and more can be combined
to form a profile. Some companies actually charge
to provide this information...
Scary
? Shaken...but not stirred....! Ok....read on :)
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Invasion
of Privacy. COOKIE USES. |
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We
keep track of the number of times a surfer has
visited this page, and alerts the surfer of
this info. We have provided buttons to allow
the surfer to reset this info. :)
This
Invasion of Privacy script has been incorporated
on this site to show you how vunerable one is
on the internet..
Internet Explorer only:
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