online privacy
I think a lot of people could be shocked at just how little online privacy people have. When you realise that each and every site you visit, every email you send and each forum you spend time on is logged and recorded for years it can make you feel quite uncomfortable.
anonymous browsing
Sure it is possible to get on your favourite internet site or online forum and search for their privacy. You will discover a lot of legal talk mainly designed to cover their backs because they record and monitor your favourite web pages, upload cookies in your machine and target your email with carefully selected promotions. The new wave of internet browsers are helping, feature like Chromes Incognito mode are blocking cookies and popups and stopping personal data being logged in your machine but which was always the simplest privacy problem to fix.
The most difficult part on protecting your web privacy is an easy little language or protocol called HTTP. The thing is HTTP is the place your web browser communicates with the sites you visit. It is rather simple, extremely powerful and incredibly fast but unfortunately it is also in completely clear text and is also visible by everyone. I usually prefer to consider it shouting across a crowded room, few people can hear since they're not playing you but everything you shout is instantly open to everyone in the room if they care to listen.
Because of the Hyper Text Transport Protocol, practically everything we all do online has no privacy because it is is in clear text. Absolutely everything we do on the internet is stored at our ISP, any personal information we send is logged here, and in many other places on it's clear text HTTP journey. Obviously our providers are not interested in this all information - there's simply too most of it and it's also expensive to store.
anonymous browsing
This is why how the ISPs are being directed by various bills and laws in countries around the globe to maintain these details. The typical excuse for invading peoples privacy and accessing their personal data would be to catch baddies and track terrorists online. This really is needless to say a perfectly good argument however do wonder is the slim potential for catching the odd online crook worth sacrificing everyone's online privacy.
anonymous browsing
Sure it is possible to get on your favourite internet site or online forum and search for their privacy. You will discover a lot of legal talk mainly designed to cover their backs because they record and monitor your favourite web pages, upload cookies in your machine and target your email with carefully selected promotions. The new wave of internet browsers are helping, feature like Chromes Incognito mode are blocking cookies and popups and stopping personal data being logged in your machine but which was always the simplest privacy problem to fix.
The most difficult part on protecting your web privacy is an easy little language or protocol called HTTP. The thing is HTTP is the place your web browser communicates with the sites you visit. It is rather simple, extremely powerful and incredibly fast but unfortunately it is also in completely clear text and is also visible by everyone. I usually prefer to consider it shouting across a crowded room, few people can hear since they're not playing you but everything you shout is instantly open to everyone in the room if they care to listen.
Because of the Hyper Text Transport Protocol, practically everything we all do online has no privacy because it is is in clear text. Absolutely everything we do on the internet is stored at our ISP, any personal information we send is logged here, and in many other places on it's clear text HTTP journey. Obviously our providers are not interested in this all information - there's simply too most of it and it's also expensive to store.
anonymous browsing
This is why how the ISPs are being directed by various bills and laws in countries around the globe to maintain these details. The typical excuse for invading peoples privacy and accessing their personal data would be to catch baddies and track terrorists online. This really is needless to say a perfectly good argument however do wonder is the slim potential for catching the odd online crook worth sacrificing everyone's online privacy.