The exchange of information in Internet is made by the "client - server" model. A client sends a request (what files he needs) and a server sends a reply (required files). For close cooperation (full understanding) between a client and a server the client sends additional information about itself: a version and a name of an operating system, configuration of a browser (including its name
I can see you hiding in the shadows over there and so can the logs of all the web sites, FTP servers and other nooks and crannies you visit on the web. The sort of information gathered by these logs and which is available to the webmasters of the sites you visit include the address of the previous site you visited, your IP address, your computer's ID name, your physical location and the name of
My readers may have noted a recent drying up of posts - well, that is mainly because I have been very busy. I am still a university student, and that takes up a lot of my time.
Anyhow, I am back. I bring to the board a review of some anonymity services - services that allow [...]
Without Anonymization, every computer in the internet communicates using a traceable Address. That means:
the website visited,
the internet service provider (ISP),
and any eavesdropper on the internet connection
can determine which websites the user of a specific computer visits. Even the information which the user calls up can be intercepted and seen if encryption is not [...]
Always been a great fan of Jaron Lanier, the internet guru and evangelist, and general web supremo. So we were interested to read the following about anonymity on blog forums, in a discussion with...
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While the most wired place on Earth is planning to go against anonymity on the Internet, it is an unavoidable question asking if it is right or wrong.Many believe that the attempt of the South Korea's government will fail.On one end, the growth in Internet access brought online also the worst.Seoul plans to introduce internet etiquette and ethics lessons in schools.But the question is: can you con
Finding ways to limit DoS attacks and SMS spam by making it harder to spoof the origin of electronic communications is on the agenda at a telecommunications standards meeting next week -- but civil rights advocates worry it could put an end to anonymity on the Internet.Making it possible to trace the origin of all Internet traffic "raises grave concerns in terms of facilitating government repressi
The internet is different things to different people. To some, it is a means to communicate with people with whom they would most likely will never meet. Some use it as a means to further a hobby, business or just for entertainment value. Most, if not all, people hide behind a cloak of anonymity that can cause some people to lose all inhibitions they may have. People tend to say things on
AnonymityI can see you hiding in the shadows over there and so can the logs of all the web sites, FTP servers and other nooks and crannies you visit on the web. The sort of information gathered by these logs and which is available to the webmasters of the sites you visit include the address of the previous site you visited, your IP address, your computer's ID name, your physical location and the n
The Church of Scientology has been claiming that its been under attack by the group known as Anonymous. Yet there's been virtually no news coverage and limited press releases or "no comment" made by the Church in mainstream media. The bulk of the accusations originate from an "anonymous" website where a video claims that back in January the Church was bombarded by harassing phone calls, faxes,
The exchange of information in Internet is made by the “client - server” model. A client sends a request (what files he needs) and a server sends a reply (required files). For close cooperation (full understanding) between a client and a server the client sends additional information about itself: a version and a name of [...]
Anonymity is one of the traditions of the program.People who don't attend 12 step meetings have probably never experienced the type of anonymity that we have. Aside from being a word that some people can't pronounce properly, anonymity is the tradition that helps all 12 step members to be equal. This means that a famous movie star, or a millionaire is no different than anyone else at the meeting.
,7340,L-3517960,00.htmlYNET News reports on the whining about Geert Wilders' upcoming film about the demon's book. Their report contains two crucial quotations. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari cited the 1948 Human Rights declaration's 29th article that individual rights may be limited in the interest of respecting other people's freedoms and "meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society." My right of free expression, guaranteed by the first amendment to the United States Constitution, is not in conflict with any other right of any person. There is no right to be sheltered from the truth. Rights & obligations must be reciprocal, they are not one sided. Muslims refer to us as "sons of apes and pigs", the exp
Article 12 of The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”
Your right to anonymity basically means [...]
OK - I've had a very brave (using the term loosely) visitor come to El Rancho Sudiegirl this holiday weekend.Let me tell you about him/her/it...here's what I know, and I'm a relative IT idiot, so they must be dumber than me. (And to be honest, that's a stretch, ladies and germs.)Their IP address is 71.214.238.249The internet provider they used was Qwest Communications CorporationThe connection was in Ames, IA (I forgot to write down the latitude and longitude but I'll include it later...)They used a Safari 1.2 browserThey visited the ranch for a little less than 24 hours (to be precise...21 hrs, 19 minutes, 55 seconds)To be even more specific...their visit STARTED at 8:42 PM central time on Sunday evening, November 11, 2007 and ENDED on Monday evening, November 12, at 6:02 PM.They left a message asking me how my friend "Erik" was.Well, I have a few messages for my mystery guest...Hope you enjoyed the complimentary mint...they are a little stale because I got them at a closeout p
One of the best-known and free services for helping Internet users maintain their anonymity online - a network known simply as “Tor” — suffered an attack this past week that may have exposed the identities of thousands of users. The good news, however, is that the vulnerability in Tor that permitted the attack [...]
In this second “volume” we will discus raw HTTP/SSL tunneling… hope you’ll like this part more than the first one.
raw HTTP proxy
What we need is a telnet able program, I personally use PuTTY, and gonna use it for this example. Recommend you use another telnet program than the windows incorporated one. How do we proxy? In the same way that we initialize a HTTP request to a server, but this time we have to specify the host and the complete url:
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putty -raw [proxy] [port]
GET http://www.google.com HTTP/1.1
HOST: www.google.com
[Enter]
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raw SSL tunnel
Because SSL can be used for tunneling. If the proxy has SSL and supports connection to other ports than arbitrary protocols can be run through it; this way SSH is tunneled trough HTTP proxy. An example:
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putty -raw [proxy] [port]
CONNECT www.google.com:443 HTTP/1.0
Host: www.google.com
[Enter]
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Proxy Chaining
There are many types of proxy chaining, but going to discuss the HTTP/SSL type, b
One of he main points the Democrats used to their advantage during the midterms in 06 was casting the Republicans as having a Culture of Corruption and how the Democrats would clean it up. Anyone that believed that was a fool and I hope they realize that now. If anything the Democrats have made the Congress less transparent. Case in point is how they are air dropping earmarks into bills at a point totally outside of public scrutiny and too late for any challenges or changes to be made. The Democrats made many promises of what they would accomplish in their first 100 hours and guess how much they did? Uhhh nothing. No real shock there though. I just flat do not believe the Democrats are capable let alone willing to do anything to clean up the system. As far as stopping the anonymous holds on bills, no way will they do a thing to clean that up, take my word for it. ~RJH New York times article link Senate May End an Era of Cloakroom AnonymityBy CARL HULSEPublished: August 2, 2
I’m still listening to The Cult of The Amateur and shocking stuff it is too, sometimes even daftly wrong.
When the author Andrew Keen was going after his favorite subject of blogs he was saying how nobody is making any money out of them and that even some of the most popular blogs with daily readerships of 100,000 were only making pennies in advertising. One, he mentioned, was making $2,000 per year from Google’s Adsense. I find this hard to believe as I’m sure I heard a story about a Canadian who was making $10-11,000 per month from advertising. Or was that just another piece of un-confirmable trashy news posted by someone anonymous.
Maybe our anonymity on the Internet is the cause of so much of what the book rants about. What can I do on the Internet anonymously? I can go to chat rooms and impersonate an old man or a young girl and no one is the wiser. I can post messages on newsgroups with the same result. I can get an email address called SnoopDog at Hotmail.com o
Over the course of eight or nine years, until last August, someone with the handle “rahodeb” posted regularly about the company Whole Foods on Yahoo!’s finance bulletin boards. Rahodeb liked Whole Foods. He didn’t care for its competitor Wild Oats. Rahodeb particularly liked Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. “While I’m not a ‘Mackey groupie,’” rahodeb wrote, “I do admire what the man has accomplished.” This was true, as far as it went. Rahodeb was not a Mackey groupie. Rahodeb was Mackey.
It was a venial sin that would never have come to light except that in February Whole Foods made a $565 million play to buy Wild Oats–the very company rahodeb so soundly dissed online–and while reviewing the bid, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) turned up what would, if this were a spy thriller, be known as the Rahodeb Identity. The FTC is seeking to halt the deal on basic antitrust grounds–it claims that a union of the
Atheists commonly assert that our situation will improve as more and more of us "come out" and reveal our atheism to the world. I do not disagree, for the parallels to the GLBT movement are obvious. So how can I continue to write this blog anonymously? This is a question with which I periodically struggle, but I remain convinced that the benefits of continued anonymity outweigh the costs. I have a variety of reasons for remaining anonymous, some obvious and some probably less so.This post was prompted by Hemant at Friendly Atheist who recently leveled some subtle criticism of anonymous atheist bloggers. After acknowledging that his opposition to anonymity as "caused some friction with some people I know," Hemant asks why we anonymous atheist bloggers maintain our anonymity when doing so makes it "that much harder to make atheism more acceptable in society."This is a fair question. I cannot pretend to answer on behalf of all anonymous atheist bloggers, but I will attempt to do so for my
FINAL CALL FOR STUDENT ABSTRACTSThe Student "I": A student conference on privacy and anonymityUniversity of Ottawa, Faculty of LawOctober 25, 2007http://revealedi.orgGraduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract for The Student “I”, a student conference on October 25, 2007 at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada.Preceding the Revealed “I” conference hosted by researchers from On the Identity Trail, this day long student conference brings together students from around the world, selected through a peer-review process, to present research relating to identity, privacy, anonymity, technology, surveillance, and other related topics engaged by the On the Identity Trail project (www.idtrail.org).Abstracts should not exceed 1,000 words (including notes and citations). Successful abstracts will seek to make an original contribution. Inter-disciplinary submissions are encouraged. Abstracts should be accompanied with a short bio, w
They may be few in numbers but these are bloggers who are steadfast with their own myopic principle that all bloggers must show a face.
If they don't see a face in your avatar they think you're...
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I attended a security summit for OLPC recently (which I will write up more fully when I have time). One of the issues that was raised was the trackability of the laptops via their MAC address - this is of particular concern because they participate in the mesh network even when powered off(!).
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To be or not to be...anonymous? I would love to read what other investing bloggers have to say about their decision to either remain anonymous or to disclose their identity in their blogs. When I look at my blog links to the right I see a pretty good mixture of anonymous bloggers such as him and her and this guy as well as identity-disclosing bloggers such as Bill, Tim, and Ross. Bill, by the way, holds the disctinction of being the only one of my blog links that is blocked by my employer's firewall. It must be because of the use of profanity such as "doodah"...I'd be interested why individuals made the decision they did. And I'd love to know whether anyone who isn't anonymous regrets the decision to disclose. And, from anonymous bloggers I'd be interested to what extent you are anonymous.For what it's worth, I remain largely anonymous because I am employed full time and collecting a paycheck while I occasionally steal a minute or two (or 60) trading and blogging. I say "l
