CAUGHT IN THE “NET” The interNET is part of the geometric matrix that you are caught in. It is like a giant brain and you are one of its billions of interconnected neurons. The NET not only stores human knowledge and provides instant access to that knowledge, it can pinpoint each of its neurons, including YOU. Like an industrial vacuum cleaner, it sucks up all of the private information you place in its path. If you think you can log onto the NET anonymously and visit websites around the world without being tracked, think again. If you think you can join discussion groups with a made-up name and chat about personal issues like infidelity without anyone knowing your true identity, think again. Like the trail of bread crumbs in the Hansel and Gretel children’s story, you have left behind a trail of bits. Watch out! How easy is it to trace you? When you connect to a website, there is a record of your IP address. It is that unique number that indicates which computer you are using. If you use an interNET service provider (ISP) like “Demon”, you have a fixed address and thats enough to pinpoint your account. With a dynamic address, the modem line you are connected to can be pinpointed. To find you, all that needs to be done is to match the time that you logged in with the records from the computers that handle your login. No matter who your server is, there is usually a way of finding you even if it means trawling through pages of log files. Being offline doesn’t guarantee your safety either. Anyone with access to your PC can track your movements because your web browser records all of the sites that youve visited in its history file. Some pages will be cached but its really not that hard to turn the history and cache files back into a list of sites or pages.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:36:46 +0000
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