Yeah it looks like you have to pay just like other sites but that still makes it easy for bad people to look for you. However, I've been trying to find an old classmate just to catch up with him and yet they make it so difficult. The government and all are so backwards. It's like they want people who are criminals to find other people but if you're just trying to catch up with an acquaintance then you're not allowed unless you pay such and such money not even knowing if it's the right person.
I don't use any aside from those web proxy sites when the IP that I'm using is banned for some strange reason. For now though, I don't have to worry about my privacy being invaded because I don't use Facebook and Google Plus, so no personal records there.
I don't know what it is - some people seem don't have that much information about themselves online, and their information - as far as home address and such - is available. And then there are other people who have a lot of information online, and they are almost impossible to find. You have to keep looking though. Some people only surf the web under usernames, and very rarely use their actual names for online activities. I agree. They want you to pay, not knowing whether or not the person that you are looking for is even the person that you are looking for. Ridiculous.
Yeah, the website that lists my old addy is extremely invasive. I'm assuming it gets it's info from those who were listed in phone books, because that was the last time I was listed anywhere; I started telling phone companies not to publish my info. Since cell phones, it's been taken care of for me. I NEVER put my personal info online unless buying something, but then.. that's how I ended up getting my Paypal wiped out, so I assume it's just a matter of time before my info is published again. Always waiting for that ball to drop, I absolutely detest having to input anything personal for any reason. The last time my address was published it was by my own city! I was livid, but I guess I should have known. I wrote in to them about something and it became public record lol. I had to actually write in and tell them how irresponsible it was to post people's addresses and had I known, I never would have bothered contacting them. They removed my addy, but left the letter up and wouldn't have even done that for me had I not told them it was for safety issues that I needed it removed. I'm as careful as I can be, but there's just so much you can do without staying offline completely :/ Do you have any other tips on how to stay safe online? Like I don't have the first clue about IP addresses and people finding me that way.. I'd love to know all the ways people could find out where you are based on your online presence. It's getting to the point I'm getting paranoid writing anything anywhere.
There are some things that are made public record, if you own a company then all your details will be on the internet. Even if you are the electoral roll you can opt to have the information removed, but you have to tick a tiny little box if you can find it or then contact them to do it. It's possible to find out nearly anything about anyone, that's why people cover their trails and have a limited online presence. To have none at all would also throw up red flags though. I changed a lot of my information and the only things now are my company details which is in the public domain.
There are actual websites that are made for doxing. If you have someone's username or email address, you can type it into some of these websites, and all of the websites where the email address is behind an account - forums, social media websites, company websites etc... - will pop up, and you can gather information about the person that way. So I would say that it is wise to keep your email address off of the internet to where people can't find it online. If they don't have it then they can't dox the address. They can still dox usernames though, twitter handles and whatnot, for any other websites where the same username has been used, in order to gather information. Also, I would advise keeping all of your social media websites private, as well as all of their features. That includes friends lists. I know of many hackers - and this one technique in and of itself is not really hacking - who will stalk a person's friends list on Facebook, Twitter, or even Instagram, and wait for someone to deactivate their profile, before imitating the person's profile so that they can gain access to private Facebooks, Twitters, and Instagrams. If you notice, a lot of famous people do not have their friends list showing because they know the security risk that it presents. Hackers will try to find a way in through friends, who have shoddy privacy settings. Pictures are also a security risk. A lot of people have private social media accounts, except for Instagram. Instagram may seem like it is only about pictures. But hackers will steal these pictures in order to imitate other people and gain access to other accounts. Also, if people on a person's friends list have their email address up, then there are certain softwares that allow you to send emails to your 'target' from that person's email address. They are called email spoofers. There are email spoofing websites for this too - where I could send an email to someone from any email address that I choose, which is dangerous, because if I receive an email from someone who has spoofed my sister's email address, I'm going to have all of my defenses down, and think that my sister is emailing me, and I am more likely to be persuaded to give out my information because I trust my sister. It is a good idea to have multiple email addresses. I have so many I have almost lost count. That way you can use one for one purpose, and others for more important less risky purposes. Hope this made sense lol
Yeah, I've been slowly disconnecting my online presence from my main email account. I think the only things connected to it now are Facebook and the main one connected to this site.. I'm afraid if I change the email addy connected to it, it will mess up my subscriptions or something. Still have to look into that. As for facebook, everything is set to private or hidden, not one picture, no contact info, nothing lol. I treat my friends list like common criminals haha! I just know there's always a way in and if you know me well enough, you don't need any of that posted online for you anyway. but like I said, I'm paranoid and one of the people I'm afraid of wears blue, if you know what I mean.. and no, I'm not a fugitive lmao. The other person isn't so smart and I'm not too worried.. I just google search myself from time to time to be sure it's not going to be easy for him.
If any of the people on your friends list post pictures of you, I'd have them take them down too. Not only because Facebook is in cahoots with this facial recognition bullshit, and ARE using Facebook photos to help advance the technology. But because a friend of yours posting pictures of you may alert the stalker/hacker to their close ties with you, and open themselves up to become a target, so that the hacker can get closer to you online. Be cautious downloading anything that is sent to you via email too. Even with files from trusted sources, I run them through virus total, an online virus scanning website. Hackers will often send pictures/videos/pdf that are binded with an exe file, which is a virus. As soon as you click it, the picture/video/pdf will come up and you will be oblivious to the fact that you have just given a hacker access to either your keystrokes or your entire computer system. Some of these infected files have been programmed to self-destroy a certain amount of time after they have been clicked, so that there is no way to trace the hacker back by picking apart the exe file and gaining the IP address. Scanning files for viruses isn't always reliable though, because hackers regularly crypt their viruses so that they go undetectable. Hackers and anti-virus companies/websites are in a constant state of war. Then there is such thing as a java drive-by, which takes you to a mirrored website, and asks you if you want to accept a java applet to get the video on the page to work. Most people click yes, thinking that they are going to get to see some form of media. But clicking yes, just executes the infected exe file. On my computer, my browser checks the safety of any link that I may be about to click. I think that comes with Norton Anti virus. As for your Ip address, whenever you send an email to someone, they can get your IP address, unless you are sending from an email spoofer. Whenever sends an email to you, you can get their IP. There are a number of things that can be done with an IP address if the hacker knows what they are doing. The average joe won't know how to use an IP address though.
Yep.. I never click on links in emails, I go straight to the source. I don't get much of anything sent to my main addy unless I know the person or it's something I trust and have known for a while. I'm in a different city now.. again lol.. so my IP has changed, so not too worried about that I guess. It's all the unknowns.. hacking and stalking gets more advanced every day and I'm slowly getting left behind on it.. worried about what they've come up with or will that the rest of us won't know about until something happens. I'm super careful online these days, especially when it comes to clicking or downloading anything. Even with all the scary hackers out there, I'm still more worried about this certain someone and, for now at least, I *think* I'm well hidden from him... I hope lol. Thanks Dreeky
I just set my settings to private browsing or I deliberately click "New Private Window" in my Mozilla Firefox browser. I rarely use this option, though, because I prefer to remember the websites I've browsed through. I have a lot of online gigs and I don't want to feel constrained by the privacy settings. I don't know how much anonymity this option gives users but for now, I really see no need for hiding my privacy since I rarely use my real name online.
With my email address, everything is blocked, and goes straight to my junk mail, unless I change it. It works fabulously for me. It ensures that I get the pertinent emails. Everything else gets filtered out. I don't want you to feel paranoid, but hackers do advance their technology literally every day. BUT, on the other hand, the people who work on defending the internet against cyber crime, are also advancing every day. Holes in operating systems are always getting patched, so that hacking techniques are no longer applicable. So I think that that balances it out. I don't know the certain someone that you speak of. But a lot of stalkers are so desperate that they cannot be bothered to learn to hack or code themselves, and offer online hackers money to do the work for them. The upside, is that these hackers are often just looking to scam these stalkers out of their money. And you are welcome Since dabbling in the hacking community, I am always so cautious, because I know what is possible. When my facebook was still activated, I would ask new friend requests a series of questions to make sure that they were who they said they were. I also used to go over their profiles. It was clear to me that some profiles had been created just forty minutes before the friend request was sent to me, so it's clearly a fake profile. All those things are useful to look out for.
Yeah.. I treat absolutely everything I do as a footprint.. because that's exactly what it is. So I don't do anything that could lead to someone finding my location. They can go ahead and hack into my Paypal or my bank account or my email and read all my boring back and forths, I just don't want anyone finding out where I live. Which I guess they would figure out if they can get into any of those lol. The rest I do my best to protect, but my actual life is far more important to me.. not that I think I'll be murdered in my sleep lol.. I just don't need the circus.
I don't even think about privacy anymore when I switch on my computer. I know that as soon as I enter the internet, every single data that I type into my computer will be traceable, so I don't really worry about privacy. I keep my "private business", such as important money transactions and details of my personal life, away from the computer. And, yes, it is possible. Obviously, it takes some extra effort, but it works well for me. And I will keep it that way.
Lol. You'd rather have your money stolen from your Paypal account than have anyone find out where you live? Are you sure that you don't want my police friends to come over there and stay with you for a while? If I actually had any police friends in Canada, I'd make them watch over you. But I completely understand what you are saying. Better the crime stay online, then cross into actual waking life. Cory Jenkins, I have used a flurry of VPN's. But they were all free. I had only come across one good free one. The rest, you have to pay for. Most of the VPN's worth anything are paid ones. Others slowed my entire system down.
Did you catch that the one I'm most worried about wears blue? Maybe I dropped the ball there, don't yours wear black? LOL. Maybe the police from another country would be less likely to stick by "their own" though, so send'em over lol. But yes, don't care if they wipe me out as long as they don't find out where I am lol. They wouldn't have access to my money anyway. Anything they'd find via online methods wouldn't be enough for them to care about, so they can go ahead lol
lmmfaooooo!!!!!!! I love it. It seems like most of the world are catching up to that way of thinking with the whole Darren Wilson thing that is going on at the moment. Our pigs wear black and white. Their shirts are white underneath, and the shit that they wear over that is usually black, with a gold badge or whatever. I don't pay much attention. Lol. I often feel their need to intimidate when they are close by. A lot of officers like the intimidation that they can strike in people's hearts, even when they aren't doing anything. Like one time we were shopping and two police officers were stood near the cashout, and everybody was looking at them. I felt that that was what they wanted, and ignored them.
Isn't it disgusting? Here to serve and protect, my ass! lol. The fact that we can't say boo to them or protect ourselves FROM them is revolting. Wrongful arrest? Put up with it or you risk worse punishment. You can even end up dead over nothing! Stalked by one? Good luck! Don't raise your voice at them, don't question them, just be an obedient puppy and take their abuse of power like a good citizen and maybe you'll get through it unharmed. I love watching them drive like idiots too.. it's ok for them to break the law every day. ug.. you're getting me started Dreekster! lol
LOL! Well, I was hearing that it doesn't actually take all that much to become a police officer. No criminal record, good credit, and a basic education, which means that almost any and everybody can become a police officer, more or less. Just because a person doesn't have a criminal record, that doesn't mean that they aren't a power hungry bully, who will bend the law to their own will and prejudices. I have heard stories from people who are friends with pigs, that these people are bullys and only became a part of the 'force,' because they could bully and intimidate people and get away with it. Not only get away with it, but get paid for it, which is really scary when you think about it. I'm hoping that these stories are overstated, but with the state that the world is in where police brutality is concerned, I can't say that the probability of that is high. Don't forget that you can't swear at them. They fucking hate that lol. You can't use profanity even when it is not directed at them half of the time because just their uniform should strike the fear of God into your heart, and for you to be even considering using profanity implies that you aren't fucked about their presence, and they hate that. They break their own laws all the time. One time they searched me and my friends during the summer holidays. Half of our grade were over on the vast field by the park late at night, and we were all drinking, yes. But the police only had suspicions that we were drinking. By the time they showed up everyone was already done with their bottles, and we had tossed them. These pigs searched our bags for alcohol. Of course, we let it happen, thinking that we had no choice, only for me to later find out that for the police to search your person they need some type of warrant. -_- I wasn't impressed and felt violated whilst the guy was rummaging through my drawstring bag, which I actually had because I was sleeping over at my friend's house that night. It was how smug they were that pissed everyone off the most, like they were enjoying lording their power over us. We were mere teens. Like, pick on someone at least within your age range, you bunch of sexless losers. lol! Needless to say, I'm the wrong person to ask to help you with your restraint when it comes to badmouthing pigs. I don't like them either lol.
LOL tell me how you really feel. When I was a teen I had many run ins with the cops. Small town, bored kids yadda yadda. The one time I was searched though, it was one cop and myself and he was so crude about it. I can't even repeat how it happened, he was a.. well, a pig lol. I was humiliated and furious that I couldn't do anything about it just because he was a nobody with a badge. Then I grow up and watch every loser I went to school with become one so easily and I got even more angry. I do know good cops, don't get me wrong... but even the good ones don't stand for you using your brain in their presence. But they know they're the true runners of the show.. without them, we'd finally shut down the big guys and govern ourselves lol.
