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Post by silverdragon on Jan 18, 2014 11:47:15 GMT
Firefox have an add-on called Lightbeam. Its worth an investigation... What it is is an app that shows you just who is watching you..... Paranoid or what?...  No, seriously, we are all aware that we get "Tracked" by cookies. Ever wondered exactly who is asking for your information?... This app will let you know.... Its something I only just found, I am not too happy with its presentation as its slightly confusing, and I cant work out what all the buttons do yet, but its very informative. |
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Post by memeengine on Jan 27, 2014 17:29:06 GMT
What it is is an app that shows you just who is watching you..... Are the NSA and GCHQ top of that list? |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 29, 2014 8:05:33 GMT
Security services have the ability to watch traffic on servers.
Your computer sends its unique registration details along with every bit of information it looks for, mainly so the information knows where to go back to?...
But the security services can track who asks for what from where and for how much....
Normally, keeping that much detail is mind bogglingly huge data amounts....
But security servers have HUGE data handling abilities.
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 29, 2014 14:28:14 GMT
Wouldn't the information provided by such a program be mainly in IP adresses and such? Is it actually capable of telling the user who and not just which computer is gathering the information? I'm basically asking if I'd have to be a complete geekazoid to understand any of the information it provides?
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 30, 2014 8:03:40 GMT
It provides you with the identity of who is storing cookies on your computer.
The thing about cookies, they MUST contain the identity of the owner. Not sure, but I think that is even a legal requirement?...
If they dont, your anti-virus will deny them anyway, and deal with them as a potential threat....
Lightbeam will track them anyway, and will find the original origin of the cookie.
You have a choice in most modern browsers to deny Third Party cookies, you have the choice to put an expiry date by clearing browser at end of use, but some cookies stay on.
Lightbeam has the ability to deal with each, one by one, but its main use is to alert you to the fact they are there, and who they belong to, and give details that can be used to block them or deal with them.
I use lightbeam to find out, but my main blocker is Ad-Block Plus, so I copy and paste the address of each cookie from one to the other.
You may think that once done, its done?...
No.
Advertising agencies have a habit of changing their address.
Frequently.
They are as wise as us about the use of Ad-Block.
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