1 Name: Black!BLACKFJv1Q : 2012-08-21 13:42 ID:KeLN8551 [Del]
In recent news, tracking has become far more advanced than you might think it would be. No longer is IP tracking the biggest invasion of privacy, rather, it's been taken a step further.
Companies can now track you far more selsctively, pointing you out specifically in a crowd of millions.
They can find out your browser, screen size, scripts, cookies, history, among other things. This new method can track people far more precisely, even if you don't want it to.
Article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/192648/browser_fingerprints_a_big_privacy_threat.html
Test your computer to see how 'unique' it is:
http://panopticlick.eff.org/
2 Name: King Dude !zXqFpoplY6 : 2012-08-21 13:50 ID:o8RVlFJz [Del]
...Which is why I delete my history and keep my torrents on an encrypted flash drive.
3 Name: *insertnamehere*!!mhJDjCwh : 2012-08-21 13:50 ID:pfOhlGFR [Del]
Apparently, my computer "appears to be unique among the 2,365,342 tested so far."
4 Name: Black!BLACKFJv1Q : 2012-08-21 13:56 ID:KeLN8551 [Del]
>>3You can be identified out of a crow of over 2 million users. Isn't that just wonderful?
>>2Basically.
Time to get some more proxies and NoScript.
5 Name: King Dude !zXqFpoplY6 : 2012-08-21 13:59 ID:o8RVlFJz [Del]
>>4 Also, using https://encrypted.google.com/ instead of regular Google helps too.
6 Name: Ayanavi : 2012-08-21 13:59 ID:bsGwUWgF [Del]
Same here, but everyone customizes their browser a bit differently. Over all not really all that privacy intrusive considering you can easily ditch the whole problem just by running a default installation of some browser (god forbid IE).
Essentially only useful for marketing.
7 Name: Ayanavi : 2012-08-21 14:06 ID:bsGwUWgF [Del]
As a quick update- Tested under a vanilla installation of IE 8, I am no longer uniquely identified at all. There's several thousand people who look exactly like me. That's compared to the two million people who took this, and the fact that IE users themselves are somewhat rare on the net. Taking it with vanilla chrome or FF would probably yield better results.
I noticed, interestingly, that it keeps track of your fonts as well to identify you. This would have been a major problem for me and my 700+ fonts, but I keep them on an External anyway. So no problem.
Again, only worth a damn for marketing. If you're doing something you're worried about being observed over - This thing isn't going to be an obstacle worth giving a damn about to get around.
8 Name: Someguy : 2012-08-21 22:50 ID:wHxcyBL7 [Del]
Running Chrome in incognito bumps me to 1 in a 1,000,000. So thats good news.
9 Name: chirishi : 2012-08-22 00:30 ID:Qzfz5PMm [Del]
personally, I have installed 'https everywhere' extension on my browsers to make sure that my data goes encrypted as well as adblocking . So far so good.
10 Name: arka !chvok4/SZI : 2012-08-22 12:28 ID:WLnVTGLr [Del]
I'm unique. Noooooooooooo......
11 Name: UmiYoko : 2012-08-22 12:44 ID:8iv3FJFv [Del]
Sheesh... I don't really have anything to hide, but I still don't wanna be tracked >:(. Stupid greedy companies.
12 Name: Maru-Kai !FzZsxghPjA : 2012-08-22 14:43 ID:yXp6NA9f [Del]
So....All those 70's era hippies were right?
oh my.....
13 Name: Nanami Rai !wVoPX6Dk6M : 2012-08-22 21:30 ID:MfWHmRxD [Del]
Wow..... Only those without decent common sense would not have figured out that the government would eventually figure out how to efficiently track us.
14 Name: CeltysCat : 2012-08-23 17:28 ID:6XI5N0co [Del]
>>13 I agree with you.of course the goverments watching us.
All I can think of is The Simpsons Movie,where you see the huge goverment room filled with people listening to telephone calls all over the world...Blaugh....gives me the creeps.
15 Name: Leigha Moscove !9tSeSkSEz2 : 2012-08-23 20:43 ID:vTZXge9y [Del]
1984. Read it.
That is all i have to say.
16 Name: Elunore!HIwambGeWE : 2012-08-25 08:59 ID:g10jBpco [Del]
Bump
17 Name: Sixclaw Sixto !4CNblaw9mI!!XI8GEi6V : 2012-08-26 00:55 ID:/PN6NQ7R [Del]
>>15 Big Brother's watching you...
18 Name: Leigha Moscove !9tSeSkSEz2 : 2012-08-26 09:07 ID:vTZXge9y [Del]
19 Name: Jebus : 2012-08-27 16:05 ID:/2LOD9dS (Image: 775x368 png, 153 kb) [Del]
Does this mean I'm safe?
20 Name: Thiamor !yZIDc0XLZY : 2012-08-27 16:27 ID:0pcTsdtA [Del]
It being unique probably means it can be picked out from a group.
21 Name: Jebus : 2012-08-27 16:47 ID:/2LOD9dS [Del]
Well, shit....
22 Name: Scythe : 2012-08-27 16:54 ID:ic0C3Y0A [Del]
>>15 Oh... Big Brother...
23 Name: Black!BLACKFJv1Q : 2012-08-27 19:23 ID:KeLN8551 [Del]
>>19It means you can be picked out of a group of 2,382,191 other computers.
So no, not really.
24 Name: The Doctor : 2012-08-28 12:43 ID:Gsyd3zJQ [Del]
Well that's just great! Now how am I suppose to do illegal activities online?! (sarcasm by the way)lol
25 Name: arka !chvok4/SZI : 2012-08-28 15:22 ID:SZ8J3c7h (Image: 409x600 jpg, 125 kb) [Del]
26 Name: Black!BLACKFJv1Q : 2012-08-28 17:06 ID:KeLN8551 [Del]
>>24Get Tor.
Get behind proxies. Several, if possible.
Use https instead of http where available.
Cancel all outside scripts running.
Set up a VPN.
Use the airport or another wifi. Another computer, if possible.
There you go.
27 Name: Leigha Moscove !9tSeSkSEz2 : 2012-08-28 17:33 ID:vTZXge9y [Del]
>>26 Also...
Make sure nobody knows that you're using the computer.
make sure no history or cookies are saved on the computer.
28 Name: Jebus : 2012-08-29 12:39 ID:/2LOD9dS [Del]
None of this matters! Big brother is watching our every move! We're all doomed !!!
29 Name: seven : 2012-08-30 00:54 ID:UFkBo8HU [Del]
chill out Jebus we are not doomed sheesh, big brother has many gaps and weaknesses even I know that.
30 Name: Kougetsu : 2012-08-30 01:04 ID:3ePGW+98 [Del]
that sucks..
31 Name: Raikura : 2012-08-30 06:50 ID:Memnr7W9 [Del]
o_o' this is making me nervous
32 Name: Tora-sama : 2012-08-31 15:05 ID:09QxFd2p [Del]
Ah shit. JUST what stalkers needed!
33 Name: Achlys : 2012-09-02 00:04 ID:Tw+9Cd+6 [Del]
Doesn't surprise me.
34 Name: shogun : 2012-09-02 01:46 ID:W7c8rPgW [Del]
my computer is uniqethats it .
35 Name: Zero : 2012-09-02 11:40 ID:KmebT9ZV [Del]
That's some pretty messed up shit.
36 Name: Fogcloud : 2012-10-20 02:14 ID:bTsmZTtz [Del]
... Wow ... I don't have anything to say right now besides that I don't like to be spied on.
37 Name: GHOST : 2012-10-20 14:07 ID:miwnn2k5 [Del]
I need to stop reading yuri and shonen ai then
38 Name: sleepology !CHs4eVJ3O2 : 2012-10-20 15:15 ID:BxLDBs/g [Del]
No, you need to stop telling people your read that.
39 Name: ShirAzzyKuCceroTan : 2012-10-23 17:40 ID:XDCQnUiZ [Del]
Now I won't get a little privacy...
This is just too much! ><
Why would they need to track us anyway?
40 Name: Judas King !Anwmk0xmlw : 2012-10-24 14:09 ID:xCBdgBKt [Del]
obviously they are tracking us but the gov't doesn't really have the manpower to sift through all that information.
Unless you are specifically under investigation, your privacy is most likely intact simply because someone would have to be paid to go through the data.
However, all of that will change when the Utah data center is complete.
41 Name: Sid : 2012-10-24 19:14 ID:M7AcMN0J [Del]
All calls are technically monitered, and they can listen through your phone if it is not in use. My friend had people search his house, probably due to him and his brothers always yelling BOMB into the phone. They said terrorist like things, like bombing a gov building, or shooting up a place. Also a friend was interrogated by the FBI just by simply writing his reasearch paper on a zombie virus. Anywhere you go you can be tracked, but usually you will be pursued only if flags are given off. A lot of drug dealers were found out just through monitering of everyones phone calls and texts.
Also each computer has a serial number due to the chip and motherboard, so they could trace the computer to its origin, and the buyer if need be.
42 Name: Mummy boy : 2012-10-31 10:29 ID:1/ufRCIg [Del]
My big brother is watching me? nooooooooooooo..
