So, as much as we hate to admit it, it looks like the conspiracy theorists were right all along, and that the vast majority of Internet traffic is being monitored by somebody, somewhere - "Big Brother" is literally looking over your shoulder while you surf.
So, as much as we hate to admit it, it looks like the conspiracy theorists were right all along, and that the vast majority of Internet traffic is being monitored by somebody, somewhere - "Big Brother" is literally looking over your shoulder while you surf.
Now the question is just how much of your data can "Big Brother" really see? You see what most of the conspiracy theorists are missing out on is the devil in the details of online surveillance programs such as Prism, in that it only scans metadata, or the header information on whatever you're looking at online. Then you need to factor in that "Big Brother" is not capable of monitoring every single piece of information passing through the Internet each day - there are literally hundreds of billions of emails and instant messages sent and received each day globally and the manpower/computing power to monitor, analyse and disseminate all of that data doesn't exist at the moment.
Your Internet Protocol address is just the first privacy threat you will face online, but definitely not the last. IP addresses allow your computer's unique signal to be recognized and identified. This is similar to a cyber fingerprint. If you have had trouble with a particular site the administrators can bar your computer address and deny admission unless you have found a way to hide your IP address.
With identity theft and millions of unscrupulous hackers lurking in the misty realm of cyberspace maybe it's time to discover how to hide your IP address while online. We all know that even the most innocent browsing of online sites can result in the unintentional sharing of some of your very personal information. See an interesting ad or article to click on? If you do, then you have opened a virtual Pandora's Box that can be difficult to close. Every speck of personal data that can be gleaned from the Internet has some use to someone.
So, as much as we hate to admit it, it looks like the conspiracy theorists were right all along, and that the vast majority of Internet traffic is being monitored by somebody, somewhere - "Big Brother" is literally looking over your shoulder while you surf.
Now the question is just how much of your data can "Big Brother" really see? You see what most of the conspiracy theorists are missing out on is the devil in the details of online surveillance programs such as Prism, in that it only scans metadata, or the header information on whatever you're looking at online. Then you need to factor in that "Big Brother" is not capable of monitoring every single piece of information passing through the Internet each day - there are literally hundreds of billions of emails and instant messages sent and received each day globally and the manpower/computing power to monitor, analyse and disseminate all of that data doesn't exist at the moment.
Your Internet Protocol address is just the first privacy threat you will face online, but definitely not the last. IP addresses allow your computer's unique signal to be recognized and identified. This is similar to a cyber fingerprint. If you have had trouble with a particular site the administrators can bar your computer address and deny admission unless you have found a way to hide your IP address.
With identity theft and millions of unscrupulous hackers lurking in the misty realm of cyberspace maybe it's time to discover how to hide your IP address while online. We all know that even the most innocent browsing of online sites can result in the unintentional sharing of some of your very personal information. See an interesting ad or article to click on? If you do, then you have opened a virtual Pandora's Box that can be difficult to close. Every speck of personal data that can be gleaned from the Internet has some use to someone.
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