Web founder warns against website snooping

**Jason** · 03-14-2009, 07:16 AM

GENEVA, March 13 (Reuters) - 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.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/...0_LD590679.htm

csc2000e · 03-14-2009, 03:52 PM

How do I avoid being tracked? Maybe if I wrap my modem in tin foil!! That will scramble their devious tracking!!

**sobeit** · 03-14-2009, 09:58 PM

its too late...google is already doing it and has a nice database about everyone...

csc2000e · 03-15-2009, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by sobeit

its too late...google is already doing it and has a nice database about everyone...

There are far too many evils in the world.. Microsoft, Google, Government, Teletubbies... the list goes on and on.

Geminii · 03-15-2009, 02:05 AM

Serially linked anonymizer proxy networks?

csc2000e · 03-15-2009, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Geminii

Serially linked anonymizer proxy networks?

Whatever you just said went way over my head. I don't even think google could figure that out.

Geminii · 03-15-2009, 02:48 AM

Heh. I was thinking of linking anonymizer networks like TOR end-to-end, so that even if one or two of them were compromised, it'd be dang difficult to trace where a given connection came from.

I believe the relevant internet meme is "Good luck - I'm behind seven proxies!"

csc2000e · 03-15-2009, 03:37 AM

Ahh... I see. Very clever.

03-14-2009, 07:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
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csc2000e Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 340 OS: Vista Home Premium SP1 My System	Re: Web founder warns against website snooping How do I avoid being tracked? Maybe if I wrap my modem in tin foil!! That will scramble their devious tracking!!

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Geminii Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 21 OS: Depends on the PC :)	Re: Web founder warns against website snooping Serially linked anonymizer proxy networks?

03-15-2009, 02:48 AM	#7 (permalink)
Geminii Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 21 OS: Depends on the PC :)	Re: Web founder warns against website snooping Heh. I was thinking of linking anonymizer networks like TOR end-to-end, so that even if one or two of them were compromised, it'd be dang difficult to trace where a given connection came from. I believe the relevant internet meme is "Good luck - I'm behind seven proxies!"

03-15-2009, 03:37 AM	#8 (permalink)
csc2000e Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 340 OS: Vista Home Premium SP1 My System	Re: Web founder warns against website snooping Ahh... I see. Very clever.