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OSX Yosemite and Security/Privacy
I currently have a Macbook Pro running OSX Mavericks, being the skeptic that I am I always wait a bit before upgrading to 'new' OS versions when they are released to see how they fare both stability ...
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How could one defeat Webtrackers
I was just wondering why some pages refuse to load completely while surfing with no-script Plug-in when I don’t allow specific Java scripts. I was wondering if there is some way to hold the tracker ...
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How does X-UIDH user tracking work and how can I detect it?
See these two EFF articles about how Verizon puts a tracker ID in the header of a http request, circumventing anti-cookie measures:
Verizon Injecting Perma-Cookies to Track Mobile Customers, ...
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Question about Being Discreet on the Internet
I've had difficuties finding all the informations I'm looking for on how to reduce one's fingerprints on the Internet, during "everyday" network surfing.
I'm found this post which is interesting : ...
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Using cookies for cross domain authentication
I have an web app 1 which would do the authentication of the user. After that I want to forward the request to another web app 2.
Now web app 1 will generate some hashcode which I can authenticate in ...
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wifi settings to the wifi that isn't mine [duplicate]
I am under someone's wifi and I don't feel comfortable with the knowledge that she can see everything I send and visit.
How can I secure my devices and block out any funny buisness? I have the wifi ...
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How does someone with HubSpot Sidekick knows when I opened their sent email?
This app claims to know when recipients opened the emails that were sent to them. Tracking clicked URLs is fairly straightforward. What I don't understand is how a 3rd party can possibly know when I ...
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Can a company track your browsing history if you are not connected to the company network?
I am using the Internet from my laptop at home, and am not connected to my company's network. I am using my own Vodafone dongle for my Internet connection. I was logged in to Gmail using my work ...
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Is it possible to identify who's behind a nmap -D scan?
Nmap's -D option stands for decoy, which means that the attacker can simulate that the attack is coming from multiple IPs, including attacker's IP.
From the point of view of the victim, is it ...
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Conversant, CNAME, Cookies, and PCI complaince
We have been asked to evaluate Conversant Tracking.
http://www.conversantmedia.com/solutions/enterprise-solutions
From what I can tell its pretty straight forward tracking, like google re-marketing, ...
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How can they catch me, how can i hide my self [duplicate]
Im using a website and somehow they can find out that i am using a proxy.
My first question is how can they do. How can they find out this? And Second what can i do i mean how can i hide my self, is ...
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If earlier the SIM card is used in multiple mobile device; can we find or trace those mobile's imei numbers?
Can we trace the imei numbers of mobile devices in which SIM card was used previously, & if it was used in multiple mobile devices?
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Track mail sender from Mesh network [closed]
Mesh network have one router connected to WAN or Internet so IP address is allocated to that router will be exiting point for all the nodes.. and other routers will have Internet connection from that ...
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How can I avoid Canvas Fingerprinting?
Canvas Fingerprinting has been getting a lot of press these last few days.
Here is a study I read on this topic: 1 and 2
What can I do to keep browsing anonymously and avoid this tracking method?
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Are Internet Explorers “Tracking Protection” able to prevent AddThis canvas fingerprinting?
A paper on web tracking mechanisms identifies the web-tracking company AddThis as a major user of canvas fingerprinting.
Are IE:s Tracking Protection, provided Tracking Protection Lists including ...
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Preventing tracking in browsers by setting HOME directory
Following worked on Ubuntu 12.04 using chromium and firefox browsers.
I ran following command on terminal for both firefox and chromium browser
HOME=/tmp/tmpdir firefox
Both browsers promptly ...
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How to post comments on websites without being traced back
Just trying to get some general sense about the security on internet now-a-days.
There are so many websites I go and comment on different things. If some comments are political and they don't like, I ...
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Enterprise Tracking of Devices Logged into WiFi
If I have a Bring Your Own Device policy, how can I track whose device belongs to each IP address? Do I need to collect information on all devices that use the WiFi system?
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Can DNS servers log users requests for commercial use (e.g. track direct access to websites)?
How does it work?
For example, could OpenDNS be tracking everything (source ip + requested url) and then selling it to who have the necessary information to correlate the ip addresses with people ...
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Is it Possible for a Java Applet to Record Cursor Movements Inside the Applet? [closed]
I am using my mouse to interact with a Java applet in a browser. Clearly the party that owns the Java applet can record where I click inside the applet. What I'm wondering about now is whether it is ...
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Best practices for notebook anti-theft. Computer tracking
I am buying a new Thinkpad with an in-built GPS/Cellular modem. I am thinking what are the best practices for making the notebook secure in case of theft. I am planning to do full disk encryption and ...
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Can my GSM network operator figure out the name of the Wi-Fi access point I am connected to?
I recently saw a film where the police were able to locate where the criminal was because the GSM network operator knew the name of the Wi-Fi access point the phone of the criminal was connected to ...
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How can I trace MAC address of not asosciated devices in my WiFi network?
I'm looking for hints to solve my problem.
I would like to trace all devices that are in my surroundings.
I know how do it when someone already access to my WiFi network, but I'm also interested to ...
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Can one scan multiple websites for tracking cookies and beacons?
Do you know of any tools or techniques that allow one to scan multiple sites for the use of tracking cookies, beacons, web bugs, or offsite javascript includes?
As far as I can tell, major web ...
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Can a 'fingerprint' file be used to track a stolen device?
A recent laptop theft, as well as concern that the data upon it might be deliberately accessed (on a drive with encryption or not), head lead me to think about how one might retroactively seek to ...
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Will my method for managing account data work?
I'm looking at whats nessecary to create a small accounts server for a video game I'm programming in my spare time. User privacy is a very important topic for me, and I don't want to keep anything ...
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How to trace virtual phone number?
Suppose I received a call from internet with some virtual number, I called the same number back after few days but it didn't exist at the time or it was routed to some other user.
Is there a way to ...
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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 concerned that my computer has been compromised because I sent an email out - but now I noticed that there is a link in the email I did not insert, and I am worried I have a virus or something. ...
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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 ...
