BS: Surfing: Can you be personally traced?

Subject: RE: BS: Surfing: Can you be personally traced?
From: harpgirl
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 12:12 AM

...Kevin, I know from your many posts that you enjoy a good argument. Me too. Add "search results" to your screen name.

For those people who wish more anonymity because for instance, they are women and feel more vulnerable; the name guest, changing screen names, and little personal information might make them feel safer. Don't put your screen name in your internet address. Don't post your internet address to the webb. There really are no fail safe anonymizing techniques on the WWW. Avoid computers and your friends will post things about you anyway.
,br> And remember my friends, the only really safe sex is abstinence!!!

You aren't afraid of much, I can tell, Kevin. I like that. I camp alone in state parks all over the country without a firearm, so I guess I'm not either. You lose this argument, but I love you anyway Kevin....

Subject: RE: BS: Surfing: Can you be personally traced?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 12:20 AM

McGrath: Black Ice - not free, I fear, does a much better job of showing you all those pings and pongs you spoke of. Fortunately, 99.44% of them are just the internet, reminding itself of where and what it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Surfing: Can you be personally traced?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 01:28 AM

OK - music brings insight and recall...this is the fun toy to play around with:

After you have used google and gone to...say... mudcat.

1. Go to command prompt (run - command)
2. Go to windows root (cd\c:\windows)
3. Type in netstat /a (space before slash is important) but do it without /a also
4. Shut down the entire browser and repeat with the same without google.
5. Go to cookie (find/search cookies)delete them ALL
6. Repeat the entire process without google, now use google...play with it in different configurations...try to see how many connections you can maintain....go to an activeX site, a java, MSN etc...

HAVE FUN!

The REAL FUN of MudCat is behind the scenes watching the logs and patterns, too bad you can't see what the clones do.

This is the stuff that goes on EVERYTIME you access the web....but Mr. Gates got rich because Americans were too lazy to learn and wanted GUI.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Surfing: Can you be personally traced?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 06:32 PM

Google had exactly ONE hit on 'me' in a thread...plus the link to my photo and several hits on searches, (which would not load) had also one hit on a URL I had posted in Mudcat's links pages....this out of thousands!

Thing is, search engines follow links...fast!... but they do NOT index everything on a chat of forum every day....or even every week or month. If they come zoooming by on day 'X', and happen to find a path that leads then to the threads of that day, and YOU have posted during the time they are scooping, then they will 'get' you--once or twice

The photos are more or less permanent and can be easily indexed, but threads are buried in archives and Google simply does not go there, except by an accident using a link that happened to be 'live' when they came by.

I am not very worried about it....I can't imagine what anyone could find out about me that way that they couldn't by using the phone book and public records....now some of you... *grin*... may need to worry!

Subject: RE: BS: Surfing: Can you be personally traced?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 06:37 PM

Fair point, Bill

The thing is that by posting here (or anywhere else) you offer yourself to 'being found out about'

Very low risk for sure, but there all the same

Subject: RE: BS: Surfing: Can you be personally traced?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 09:29 PM

Made curious by this thread, I did a Google search for myself. My real name in 3 different forms: no hits. My mudcat nickname produced about 2 dozen hits. All were other people. I AM very careful. I didn't know I was that careful.