Hi Dan, Brian, et al,
From: Brian McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [G] Internet Security, hide cable modem IP?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:00:18 -0500
I'm sure someone will post saying
Safari is the bomb, but I have looked at the prefs, and I can't get
as secure-seeming or as stable a browsing experience from it as
FireFox. YMMV. Maybe there's a 3rd part util to tighten it down
further.
Set up Firefox, no cache, no history, no cookies, etc and you'll see
less of those ads
I recommend FireFox as well. It's my default browser today. Good
outfit, more sites available, less security problems.
I'm fairly well hidden, but it's virtually impossible to avoid privacy
problems on the internet. I'd give that dream up for awhile. Security
has been an issue since the dawn of the internet.
I live on an island with 5000 residents (many of whom are not on the
internet), and there are 2 ISP's on island. Just my ISP alone filters
out about 250,000 SPAM's/day island-wide, and I can still see about
25/day right here (but my own system filters out all but 5 or 6 of
those).
IMO, M$ is one of the worst offenders outside criminal hackers (I think
it's debatable whether or not M$ is breaking then law....I think they
are), and I hate to think Apple is falling into the same sinful tract,
but they might be.
It was shown a few years ago that M$ sends out packets all over the
internet which can invade any machine running Windows and harvest and
report lists of visited websites and the like back to M$ (and enough
reasons to believe other companies do it too), which they say is a
legitimate endeavor for gathering marketing demographics.
But I call it invasion of privacy.
If you truly want privacy, you're better off making those notes and
transactions offline and in person. But if online, then keep several
email mailboxes with different addresses in different places, and don't
give those to anyone except those in whom you trust not to give them to
anyone else, and don't make contact with any internet businesses with
them.
All the best,
Ken N.
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