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more on Wired: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:57:54 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Brad Templeton <btm () templetons com> Date: January 20, 2006 4:40:16 PM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: Re: [IP] Wired: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:37:03PM -0500, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Claudio Gutierrez <claudio.gutierrez.m () gmail com> Date: January 20, 2006 3:17:04 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Wired: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops Maybe (surely) useful How to Foil Search Engine Snoops http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70051-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
Not that this advice isn't good, including the advice to use the EFF-funded "Tor" system for highly anonymous web surfing, but the article may also present a false sense of security, as I go into in more detail here: http://ideas.4brad.com/node/339 Many people can be identified by the IP address, forget anything about cookies or logins. I have a static IP so I am hard identifiable if not using TOR. Most broadband users today in theory have dynamic IP but only in theory. In reality, especially if you have a home gateway box, you keep the same IP for months at a time. In most cases, especially with PPPoE, your ISP keeps logs of when it changes and who has what IP. How do you think the alleged infringers on P2P networks are being found? Indeed, the people with the most anonymity are dial-up users or people who turn their computer on and off regularly per session with a dynamic IP. In those cases the Google logs won't track you very easily if youdon't set a cookie, but combined with the ISP logs they do, cookie or not.
However, most serious internet users, and most corporations, use a static
IP, and you can be tracked easily unless you use TOR. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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