Online Privacy
Every time you access the Internet, you get a unique identifier assigned to you known as an IP address. Your IP address can reveal a fair bit of information about you, including your location. Some websites can use it to block you from accessing their content. If you’re surfing the web from home, using an…
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Most people want two things when they go online: security and anonymity. If you do a little “Googling” on those subjects, you’ll easily come across the use of proxy servers as a quick, easy and sometimes even free solution to get both. A proxy will promise to hide your IP address while you’re surfing the…
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Better question: Why would you use a proxy at all? The topic of proxies can get confusing fast, making it hard to figure out what they are, what they do and why anyone would use one. Just so you know, using a proxy revolves around you taking steps on your computer to help you either:…
[Read More]An open proxy is a proxy server that will accept client connections from any IP address and make connections to any Internet resource. Abuse of open proxies is currently implicated in a significant portion of e-mail spam delivery. Spammers frequently install open proxies on unwitting end-users’ Microsoft Windows computers by means of computer viruses designed…
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Move Over, Stale Cookies. There Are Fresher Technologies on Their Way That Keep Track of People Online Personal computers really took off somewhere in the 1980s. But it was about 20 years ago, when the Internet came on the scene, that another technology was introduced: the computer “cookie.” It was designed by a programmer at…
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Netflix has become a household name for the digital natives and nomads of today because there are few creature comforts — like a library of your favorite movies and TV shows – that you can bring with you and have access to anywhere in the world with a click of a mouse. If you go…
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The advances in technology over the decades are phenomenal. Consider this: The mobile phone/smartphone in your pocket has more computing power than NASA used to go to the moon in the 1960s—the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) had approximately 64Kb of memory and operated at 0.043Mhz. Arguably, you’re also probably more attached to it than some…
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Here’s another reason to consider using a VPN. What do you consider sensitive online information? Is it your personal emails, information about your personal life and medical records? What about your Internet browsing activity? Most of us would agree that we would not want anyone knowing about our personal affairs. But, chances are you’re not…
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