Internet Privacy

whiteflour said:

This is what's known as a jailed environment, and while it can work, if the virtual machine is connected to the internal network there's nothing to stop it from infecting the host. Also any data used on the virtual machine is still saved on the actual disk, actually in a format which makes it easier to extract and transport (this was its true purpose). For security's sake you're really better off saving everything to an encrypted flash disk that you could easily destroy.




This generally is not the case. While you can change your internal IP address at leisure it's becoming more and more difficult to change your physical IP, which is what actually connects to websites. Most modems these days all come pre-equipped with a DHCP router and forcing an IP address change on the computer doesn't reset the IP the router itself is holding.

Now you could reset the router but that in itself isn't enough to force the change either. Often enough your IP address is actually bound to the MAC address (which isn't so easily changed) and will only renew if it's been unused for a predetermined period of time that only the ISP would know. This could be anywhere from a matter of hours to weeks, and some customers are even issued static IPs which never change. So the only way to truly know you've changed your IP is to unplug the modem for quite a while, but until you know what the length of time is, you're stuck in a one step forward two step back process.

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bobsgreen said:

He's right the best way to delete data is to get a program that deletes and writes over the data you want to delete multiple times..I was amazed when I downloaded a data recovery tool and could access things that were deleted from my recycling bin a year ago(might be an exaggeration..this was a while ago..months at least)

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CLOSETGROWTH said:

Im a computer tech, if you install lets say win xp.. make sure you dont do the "quick format", always choose the "full format", takes longer but it does destroy data for good.

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EagleEyeHamThrust said:

www.torproject.org

It essentially routes your traffic through two or more other computers, and it can be used in conjunction with encryption. If you are browsing the net with computer A, you send a message to computer B, B sends a message to computer C, computer C accesses the information (such as a website) and then sends it back to B, and B sends it back to you at computer A. It essentially hides your IP address, so that if this site were forced by law enforcement to give up IP logs, or they were tracking it, it would make it more difficult for them to trace back to your ip. You can't use anything flash based, so no youtube, but it will help. No matter what, if law enforcement gets bullshit warrants (which they do every day thanks to crusading judges) they can data mine pretty much everything that is done on the internet and nothing can stop that. There's also the possibility that law enforcement could be operating both computers B and C, and they'd know exactly what you were viewing.

It's a little bit slower than usual internet, but I almost always have pages load in under 30 seconds. Occasionally you get some interesting stuff when a website tries to determine your country of origin. When using it, I've had Google come up in German, and (I think) Japanese.

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nicktater said:

They would have to go through everyone on this site though to find someone that live in an area that they can actually do anything about. It would take too much time to be effective for them i wouldnt beleive they do that.

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agent11475 said:

this is about the topic but not really fallowing the conversation, a lot of people screw themselvs over and not because they dont use a proxy, people put their private information into public view. the best example i have of this is with pictures off of peoples cell phones. http://janezlifeandtimes.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/my-meal.jpg i just grabbed that photo from google and know its been taken with an iphone, the picture has metadata in it called exif, this data gives you some crazy information including a GPS tag of where the picture was taken. if you want to see for yourself paste the link from the picture into http://regex.info/exif.cgi and it will show you on a map where it was taken.



http://regex.info/exif.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjanezlifeandtimes.files.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fmy-meal.jpg



mind=blown

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