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Someone keeps using my email address. What to do?
I have had a GMail ever since it was created, so it's an email address that is easy to remember, but also easy for somebody else to get confused with. Since I'm not going to post my email address ...
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Internet monitoring and DNS encryption
If someone hides their DNS traffic by encrypting it with a service such as OpenDNS's DNSCrypt, would you still be able to see which URLs they're viewing?
Also, if that person uses HTTPS 100% of the ...
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What information can be gained from an Email Header?
What information is present in an Email Header that can be used to track a sent mail? For example, are some of these present?
Web Browser used?
Operating system
Type of Network (broadband/dial up)?
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Does a chain of proxies (e.g. one connecting to another and another and so on) make tracing the original IP harder/impossible?
I see nobody here has asked this question. What if one, instead of just using a single proxy, connected a proxy-to-proxy in a very long chain and downloaded something (illegal) using secure packets ...
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How do phone location services get their information?
Location services - such as https://www.lociloci.com - allow you to track any phone as long as the person replies to a text to allow the tracking to be performed. How do these services receive the ...
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Trace facebook user ip. Is it even possible?
As I know facebook chat is working like user <> server <> user and it's not P2P. I was talking with some guys today and they were pretty sure it's possible to netstat a facebook user IP ...
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Can my customer's ISP trace who visited my business website?
I own a private business and a web site with a domain name hosted with Godaddy US. I live in Europe. I want to know if the various ISP of my customers in my country can find out who visited my web ...
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what info can web bugs track?
From EFF's Web Bug FAQ(point 6),
What information is sent to a server when a Web Bug is viewed?
The IP address of the computer that fetched the Web Bug
The URL of the page that the Web ...
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how is Google Ads managing to track me? (even if I don't keep cookies!??) [duplicate]
NOTE: in this question I am interested in discovering the actual method used by Google to track me -in my particular case- and in exploring eventual ways to circumvent it. This is completely different ...
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What is cleardot.gif next to the senders signature in Gmail? [closed]
I am seeing an invisible image called cleardot.gif appearing next to the sender's name at the bottom of their email. (immediately to the right after "Sincerely, [their name"]). It only happens with ...
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Is it possible to find who posted comment on my blogspot anonymously?
Problem Behind question :
I own an blogspot site and people used to come and comment on my posts. In recent days I can see a spammer who comments anonymously on my every blog-posts. The comments were ...
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Does using Google DNS make extensions like AdBlock Plus useless?
As many of you probably do, I am not using my ISP DNS because of very low performance, and I am using Google's primary and secondary DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) which are good speed-wise but, knowing ...
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Track IP address of criminals [closed]
Quite recently someone had maliciously stolen my pictures and created a fake Facebook and Instagram in my name, with abusive captions under my pictures. However, with the advice from the police, I had ...
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How do open (no password) wireless networks deal with abuse?
Many places today such as restaurants, malls, and other public places have free and open WiFi that does not need a password or login information to access. That means that anyone, even people outside ...
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What are the privacy pros and cons of using a public DNS server vs. your own?
Whether I'm using a normal internet connection setup, or tunnelling it through an anonymizing VPN or through TOR, what information of mine is revealed to whatever DNS server that I choose (e.g. Google ...
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Can you track someone using a proxy? [duplicate]
This is past experience, and is not the case anymore since I am a programmer now and have nothing to do with security anymore. However in the past I had a person constantly trying to make comments of ...
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Can your Windows or Linux username be exposed to websites?
For example:
Accessing a website with javascript enabled can expose information such as browser, fonts and local time. Can it, theoretically, expose your Windows or Linux username?
Will saving a ...
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What do web trackers know about/think of me?
Many companies use HTTP cookies, flash cookies, and other analytics to track visitors on the web and classify them. How can I find out what my web profile is currently, and what these trackers are ...
