Posted on 03/13/2009 2:14:56 PM PDT by xtinct
* Governments, corporations snooping on website visits... * Next big thing on Web is linked data...* Berners-Lee says future of Web is on mobile phones
Surfers on the Internet are at increasing risk from governments and corporations tracking the sites they visit to build up a picture of their activities, the founder of the World Wide Web said on Friday.
Tim Berners-Lee, whose proposal for an information management system at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN 20 years ago led eventually to the World Wide Web, said tracking website visits in this way could build an incredibly detailed profile of who people are and their habits.
"That form of snooping I think is really important to avoid," he told an anniversary celebration at CERN.
Technology now being developed will make it easier to decide who can see material one posts on the Web, and in what circumstances. For instance people may not want prospective employers to see an album of holiday photos, he said.
Berners-Lee, a British software engineer who is now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said innovation on the World Wide Web was speeding up.
"The Web is not all done, it's just the tip of the iceberg," Berners-Lee said. "I am convinced that the new changes are going to rock the world even more."
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
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Boss? ‘zat you?
A MYSTERY was solved today that emphasizes a feature of the Tor network that many users either never understood or had forgotten.
On August 30, Swedish computer security researcher Dan Egerstad posted the user names and passwords for 100 email accounts that he had obtained without the owners’ knowledge. He also posted their email servers’ IP addresses.
The information posted was just a sample of at least 1,000 instances he had collected along with thousands of emails belonging to embassy employees, legislators, civil rights workers and others throughout the world.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/340/1005340/tor-network-exposes-sensitive-information
...To prove his point, he ran SSLstrip on a server hosting a Tor anonymous browsing network. During a 24-hour period, he harvested 254 passwords from users visiting sites including Yahoo, Gmail, Ticketmaster, PayPal, and LinkedIn. The users were fooled even though SSLstrip wasn't using the proxy feature that tricks them into believing they were at a secure site. Sadly, the Tor users entered passwords even though the addresses in their address bars didn't display the crucial “https.” (Marlinspike said he later disposed of all personally identifiable information)...
But to do that you need to crack the anonimity of the person looking at your pictures, thus one huge step past the tracking the author is warning about.
On Facebook, privacy is established to only allow Friends to see your pages and pictures... fact there, as my kids and relatives kids have that feature established
That’s phishing. Logging in with username/password to a site that doesn’t use SSL or HTTP-S will send your login credentials over the wire in plain text. That is not an issue with Tor at all.
This whole article is crap. Al Gore created the internet!
Why would knowing the originator matter when you have someone’s name, password, and the website they are visiting they gave that to?
What this does is give anyone using Tor the same problem they would have using an unencrypted Wi-Fi access point.
Tor does not claim to offer privacy. Tor does not offer privacy.
If someone sends their username and password in plain text across the Internet, that’s not the fault of Tor. Solution: Don’t send your username/password across the Internet without encryption (i.e. https).
What Tor offers is ANONYMITY. Do you understand?
I think you are confused as to the difference between anonymity and privacy.
You are not very anonymous when people know the sites you are visiting and have copies of your cookies and unencrypted name and passwords to sites like Free Republic.
It’s easy to find out who someone likely is when a lack of privacy allows personal account information to be known.
Anonymity is almost worthless without privacy.
lol China...
Read the articles I posted. There is are no secure names and passwords if you use Tor. You have a much better chance of not having Man in the Middle attacks by simply “trusting” your internet provider.
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