On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 10:02:07AM -0600, Douglas H Reed wrote: > Most people don't understand just how pervasive the data mining is. > Every time you go to a web page that includes the little "like me" > buttons or has a Google search link, or other reference to some other > service, it usually means that your browser had to go to that remote > web site to retrieve some data, maybe just the logo. But the remote > web site can capture your IP address, possibly your MAC address, and > anything else it can request from the browser, and put it together > with all the other info they can capture, retrieve or deduce, to build > a profile of your browsing habits. Maybe they left a cookie on your > system from the last time you were there? Depending what sites you > frequent, they may be able to link it to you as an individual instead > of just a general age bracket and gender. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/ It's like a packet filter for outgoing requests. You get to control what web pages can request resources from what other web servers. Cheers, florin -- Beware of software written by optimists! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130106/d9d40126/attachment.pgp>