On the Internet, no body knows you're a dog......

One of the myth that some people share regarding the Internet is the adage "On the Internet, no body knows you're a dog", unfortunately this is not true. Willingly or otherwise, we send a lot of personal information whenever we surf the web. The information transmitted can be used to locate our geographical location, the Operating System, the browser, the screen resolution and many more. So if you visit a website even with seemingly anonymous credentials be aware that they know a lot about you than you expect.

Peter Steiner's Cartoon, The New Yorker, July 5th, 1993

Another shock to those who uses search engines(is there some one who does not), again they are tracking your all activities, ranging from IP tracking to permanent storage of cookies on hard drive (reminds of Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984). For example Google-a start up place for most of us stores permanent cookie on hard drive with uniques ID which can identify user to Google and thus enabling them to keep track of all of our search queries.

So what to do in this so called information age to keep our privacy intact. Some one suggested the use of proxies, hmmm, good choice but again the credibility of proxy web sites poses the same questions. What about TOR??? but paying for the hi speed net and getting dial up speed- a trade of which most of us are not ready for.

So by the wide spread use of cellphone, web, GPS in vehicles, are we moving towards a society where, as describedby Orwell, "Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull."

The following information is presented for your information only (is related to you).

PS: We can change the setting of user-agent in browser to send fake information regarding the OS and browser type etc. I will try to post some useful information some time later.