Anyone who thinks that anything on the internet is private is a complete blithering idiot. I recently had a kid tell me and show me just how easy it is to get into private domains and see what kind of stuff is going on there. Social media like Facebook are notoriously bad. It was amazingly simple really. Kind of scary too... People have no clue who else is reading their private stuff. It really is best not to put anything into writing that you don't want seen by anyone else.... even when you think it's private, it's not. I have a person from Mountainview, California who goes in on my blog here regularly (like every four or five days) and adjusts and makes things available to Google search... I watch him/her and he/she watches me. Then a while back I wrote a blog about the end of the Space Shuttle program... I was sad to see it go... I used some key words apparently because the next day there was someone monitoring me from a particular agency in the states that begins with C---r--l I-------- ? (I don't want them to come back again).
It is amazing to think that there are people out there who do this kind of stuff all the time. They just spend all of their time monitoring peoples' movements on the internet. I like checking out my stat counter because it allows me access to seeing you guys and tells me who's been in on my blog recently and who is following what I am saying. If you leave a comment on my blog ever after I can figure out who you are. I can see what your previous website was and I can see what you leave me for. It's cool really.
Unless you are jumping from computer to computer (and I mean using different computers each time you log in) it is not hard to find out what you are doing... at least while you are on my blog. Once you leave my blog I can't follow you... unless I was a wiz kid like the one I spoke of earlier. So if you are ever on the run... don't keep going back to the same computer and for heaven's sake don't say anything in the form of a comment. Actually, in order to hide you will probably want to stay off the internet altogether.
Last year my cousin who follows my blog went to the states and I was able to tell that he was on my blog because he was using the same computer... it was his laptop that I was able to follow. As a result I was able to know his activities while he was there.
And passwords.... keep them to yourself and try to use as many different ones as you can. If someone knows any of your passwords then that makes checking out your personal stuff even easier. Really the best thing you can do is hide. Even using code words like "turtle" won't hide you.
Be cryptic.... unless you want people to find out stuff about you.... then you're just plain weird! (Which is maybe the case with me!)
Just watch... because I used the words cough and snort in this title, for the next few days every website that I go to will be selling me tissues and cough medicine. Really!
Oh and if you do use text messaging or anything that you don't want to be found out... erase and delete everything.... including the history of it and all recent items that you have visited. Really... I'm serious...
Oh and by the way.... Hi to the person from Mountainview, California.... maybe you could contact me a let me know who you are?! I might actually believe you. : )
1 comment:
Great info, thanks! I am a ludite, married to a computer geek, and didn't know all this stuff. But I am at least wary about security on computers and don't say anything that I don't want to be known, just as in talking to someone. In any case, this is all good stuff to remember if you have children.
See you about 330ish! c
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