Internet Privacy Protection - Time to Take Control

PLEASE NOTE - This page is a work in progress. It takes me some time to investigate and right up the findings in a manner that is useful to you, so please come back soon and see how my musing develop

So you have reached this page. I am guessing you are not happy at the thought of your data floating around and being sold to whoever requests it, to do with as they please unchecked. Well don't worry now its your chance to fight back and take control of your data.

So where do we start, we'll it really depends what level of privacy you are looking for.

Control your Cookies

We can start with simple control over your cookies;this can be achieved through settings in your browser which we will help guide you through step by step.

Mask you IP Address

Every machine has an identifying address we refer to this as your IP address. This unique identifier helps websites map your activity and track your actions on the interent, so you can probably see that controlling this address is quite important if you want to control your private data and surfing habits.

Proxy Servers

Proxy Servers will help mask your identity when you are browsing the interent. There are many free proxy sites out on the internet and also some pay for use options. We will take you through them highlighting the pros and cons of each approach and what to look out for and the risks of a Malicious Proxy Server

Free Flowing CGI

Did you know that as soon as you request a page from a webserver, before you even see a single character ot text, you have already passed a wealth of information to the webserver. This is completly seperate from Cookies, or IP address information and tells the web server information such as which web site you are coming from, what type of browser you are using etc.

Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde

So you want anonymity on the internet. Well after you follow all of the conventional technical approaches, here is the soft approach which really is the key to true anonymous surfing. I suggest you focus on the intial steps defined above and then come back and read over this page: Internet Alias - Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde

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