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Modern Internet is a place, where your privacy can always be compromised with the help of simple hacking tools. Although this is a well-known fact, many users simply don’t pay attention to it and find it completely unnecessary to use primitive but useful safety technique. In this article we will dwell upon effects, which can be caused by leaving your Internet tracks.

First of all, let’s make it clear what does the “Internet tracks�? term mean. You see, using Internet browser is quite simple and convenient, but if you simply use and quit it, various signs of your activities will be saved on the PC. These include your visited sites, Internet cookies (simple text files, which are being used for your convenience), cache (temporarily files, such as images and visited web pages), etc. It would be silly to believe that having these things saved on your hard disk is completely safe, because there are hundreds of parasites, which sneak into victim’s PC, steal this information and send it to the hacker. Although the main part of your Internet tracks doesn’t contain any valuable information, some pieces can store your passwords and other confidential data. Losing this data means that someone gains access to your Internet accounts and services. (more…)

There are a large number of nonprofit organizations that specialize in protecting your rights to privacy. It is time well spent to visit these sites, as you can learn what the current laws are, what is being proposed, and what is being done to protect privacy.

Contrary to what some ultra-conservatives might think, visiting these sites will NOT turn you into a radical or a bleeding heart liberal. In spite of what certain officials try to tell you, privacy is your right. You need information to protect that right, and these sites can help.

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It is an all too common misconception that anonymity equals privacy. Anonymity and privacy may be related, but their significance is worlds apart.

Do you wonder what other people know about you? A good starting point is:

• http://www.all-nettools.com/tools1.htm

There are hundreds of web-based email services that appear to offer anonymity. Few really do. These include names such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Excite, Pobox, Dejanews, and too many more to list here. In each of these cases, the user is allowed to create a pseudonym that he uses for his messages. Unfortunately, through sign-up procedures, logging, and message headers, it is amazingly simple to determine your ISP, and even your true identity, when you use these services.

For the obvious reason, there is no point in wasting space dealing with those types of services. Instead, we’ll try to provide information on methods that offer at least a degree of anonymity. As the user, it is your responsibility to know that your internet anonymity is only as secure as the service’s privacy policy. You should always familiarize yourself with the usage and privacy policies of any E-mail or internet service you consider using.

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