Double Life: General tips and tricks not covered in other Double Life threads.
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Something is seriously wrong with me.
For some reason, I have this very strong urge to "facebook friend" this one girl. I don't know why. She doesn't know my real name though I know hers. I just have this crazy desire to do it.
I am not, but I can't for the life of me think why I would want to do such a thing.
For some reason, I have this very strong urge to "facebook friend" this one girl. I don't know why. She doesn't know my real name though I know hers. I just have this crazy desire to do it.
I am not, but I can't for the life of me think why I would want to do such a thing.
MySpace is so 2002. 
I never like MySpace. It always looked clunky and seemed like a poor substitute for having your own web page.
Facebook makes the social networking aspect much easier. People can tag you in a photo and you get notified and that photo becomes a part of your profile, if you want.
I just find it much easier to keep up with everyone on it.
I never like MySpace. It always looked clunky and seemed like a poor substitute for having your own web page.
Facebook makes the social networking aspect much easier. People can tag you in a photo and you get notified and that photo becomes a part of your profile, if you want.
I just find it much easier to keep up with everyone on it.
Some firewalls can monitor and log all traffic transparently. At my last day job I had the firewall set up to send a syslog message that was logged to a sql database of each and every URL visited using the company internet connection (Dual T1's). Of course the damn log was something like 32 gigs after 6 months.
No proxy was involved. No way to tell from the internet settings on the desktop PC's that we did this.
No technical reason an ISP could not do this as well, but they would have no incentive. Costs money, and they have no legit use for it.
No proxy was involved. No way to tell from the internet settings on the desktop PC's that we did this.
No technical reason an ISP could not do this as well, but they would have no incentive. Costs money, and they have no legit use for it.
There are of course ways this sort of thing can be defeated.
Firewalls can be set to block tunelling (most types - socks, http proxy, GRE/RAS tunnels. ssh, l2tp, ipsec, etc.)
Higher end firewalls can redirect all HTTP traffic to a login in page first for authentication before passing traffic. Or some can even pull user credentials straight out of IE on that redirect page and authenticate them against the domain (or ldap, or radius...). Unless a good user ID and password are supplied, no traffic passes. So unless you know someone else's ID (whom you don't mind getting nailed for your activities), it still lays a trail back to you. How's it look when a strange MAC address tries to open an encrypted tunnel after giving the firewall your credentials?
I nailed a guy doing exactly that in fact. One of the nails in his coffin when he was let go (that, and running a side business out of his office, using company resources, vehicles and employees on the company clock)
Better way is if you can finagle an analog modem at your desk...Slow, but then they can't trace what you are doing.
Firewalls can be set to block tunelling (most types - socks, http proxy, GRE/RAS tunnels. ssh, l2tp, ipsec, etc.)
Higher end firewalls can redirect all HTTP traffic to a login in page first for authentication before passing traffic. Or some can even pull user credentials straight out of IE on that redirect page and authenticate them against the domain (or ldap, or radius...). Unless a good user ID and password are supplied, no traffic passes. So unless you know someone else's ID (whom you don't mind getting nailed for your activities), it still lays a trail back to you. How's it look when a strange MAC address tries to open an encrypted tunnel after giving the firewall your credentials?
I nailed a guy doing exactly that in fact. One of the nails in his coffin when he was let go (that, and running a side business out of his office, using company resources, vehicles and employees on the company clock)
Better way is if you can finagle an analog modem at your desk...Slow, but then they can't trace what you are doing.
This isn't a job-related issue, but I would like to keep my websurfing on the downlow:
I rent a workspace in a building full of artist's studios. The landlord provides free WiFi service. So it isn't an employer and there's no life-or-death reason I have to worry about the landlord knowing what I look at online. But I'm friendly with him & his wife and there's an embarrassment factor involved.
So with Wi-Fi, how much do I have to worry about them knowing exactly what I'm logging into, and can I subscribe to some sort of proxy service that will make this a non-issue?
Thanks for any info.
I rent a workspace in a building full of artist's studios. The landlord provides free WiFi service. So it isn't an employer and there's no life-or-death reason I have to worry about the landlord knowing what I look at online. But I'm friendly with him & his wife and there's an embarrassment factor involved.
So with Wi-Fi, how much do I have to worry about them knowing exactly what I'm logging into, and can I subscribe to some sort of proxy service that will make this a non-issue?
Thanks for any info.
Depends on how they have their wi-fi set up. If server logs are involved than the sites you visit are logged.
A "web tunnel" fixes that. That is software that opens an encrypted pathway through a network in which only the encryption server is logged. Even if a packet sniffer is online nothing you move though that tunnel is going to get detected.
Anonymizing via websites that perform that service will work as well, logging only the anonymizing site.
A "web tunnel" fixes that. That is software that opens an encrypted pathway through a network in which only the encryption server is logged. Even if a packet sniffer is online nothing you move though that tunnel is going to get detected.
Anonymizing via websites that perform that service will work as well, logging only the anonymizing site.
Read up on this software
http://www.torproject.org/
Store files here, and choose a good password:
http://www.truecrypt.org/
http://www.torproject.org/
Store files here, and choose a good password:
http://www.truecrypt.org/
I actually like the portable "OperaTor" browser which fits easily on a USB key, with enough room to put a full evidence eliminator [I like 'Evidence Eliminator"] to clean up after yourself and some other software to remain safe. Like a personal down and dirty word processor and room for its data files created. Even a small Unix boot-up kernal.
So you can boot from the key, run your stuff, and leave without anyone even knowing you were one the system to begin with.
I have one on my key ring at all times. Its only 8/G but its gold-plated.
Link for mobile "OperaTor: http://deviant-art.org/deviant-art-browser-portable-operator.html
So you can boot from the key, run your stuff, and leave without anyone even knowing you were one the system to begin with.
I have one on my key ring at all times. Its only 8/G but its gold-plated.
Link for mobile "OperaTor: http://deviant-art.org/deviant-art-browser-portable-operator.html
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Thanks, gentlemen, for these suggestions.
I haven't been able to get Tor to work on my computer. I'm a hopeless fucktard when it comes to anything involving networks, but I'll keep working at it.
In the meantime, I don't really require a major security lockdown; like I said it's not a workplace, I'm not married, and I'm not looking at anything really beyond the pale. I doubt my landlord really even gives a shit what we look at, I just don't need my clicks on juicytits.com staring him in the face.
So for those limited purposes, can I just use an anonymizing website like www.freetoview.net or www.letmeby.com and will that be enough to keep juicytits.com from showing up on his logs if he even keeps them? Remember this is Wi-Fi, and yes, as I said, I am hopeless about this stuff so please forgive my naivete.
I haven't been able to get Tor to work on my computer. I'm a hopeless fucktard when it comes to anything involving networks, but I'll keep working at it.
In the meantime, I don't really require a major security lockdown; like I said it's not a workplace, I'm not married, and I'm not looking at anything really beyond the pale. I doubt my landlord really even gives a shit what we look at, I just don't need my clicks on juicytits.com staring him in the face.
So for those limited purposes, can I just use an anonymizing website like www.freetoview.net or www.letmeby.com and will that be enough to keep juicytits.com from showing up on his logs if he even keeps them? Remember this is Wi-Fi, and yes, as I said, I am hopeless about this stuff so please forgive my naivete.
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I didn't know Tor had any associations with particular traffic [does that apply to OperaTor as well?], and even if that is so it only means anything if the logs at the other end are showing the web browser you are using. If one is also using a web tunnel, as I suggested, the browser would be invisible to the logging system's software.
I didn't know Tor had any associations with particular traffic [does that apply to OperaTor as well?], and even if that is so it only means anything if the logs at the other end are showing the web browser you are using. If one is also using a web tunnel, as I suggested, the browser would be invisible to the logging system's software.