Sunday, January 08, 2012

What are you revealing about yourself?

Every time you open a connection to a web server, a conversation takes place between your browser and computer, and the server you have reached.

This reports some of the information that is revealed (check on your anonymity):  http://ipduh.com/anonymity-check/ .  Note to Chrome browser users:  think you are hiding anything by using an "incognito window" ?  See for yourself.   Go back and visit a second time - from the cookie left on your system, you are welcomed back with the count of how many visits.

Other tools on this site include a "geolocation" (where you are geographically) but might not work if you're on IPv6.   An alternate geolocation tool is http://utrace.de (select English page unless you prefer German).

Other interesting aspects of what is revealed about you, and other tools, include:
* The AS (autonomous system number of which your IP address is a part) see the "/as" choices.
* IDN (internationalized domain names)
and
* IPv6 tools

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