Law #9: Absolute anonymity isn't practical, in real life or on the Web
All human interaction involves exchanging data of some kind. If someone weaves enough of that data together, they can identify you. Think about all the information that a person can glean in just a short conversation with you. In one glance, they can gauge your height, weight, and approximate age. Your accent will probably tell them what country you're from, and may even tell them what region of the country. If you talk about anything other than the weather, you'll probably tell them something about your family, your interests, where you live, and what you do for a living. It doesn't take long for someone to collect enough information to figure out who you are. If you crave absolute anonymity, your best bet is to live in a cave and shun all human contact.
The same thing is true of the Internet. If you visit a website, the owner can, if he's sufficiently motivated, find out who you are. After all, the ones and zeroes that make up the Web session have to be able to find their way to the right place, and that place is your computer. There are a lot of measures you can take to disguise the bits, and the more of them you use, the more thoroughly the bits will be disguised. For instance, you could use network address translation to mask your actual IP address, subscribe to an anonymizing service that launders the bits by relaying them from one end of the ether to the other, use a different ISP account for different purposes, surf certain sites only from public kiosks, and so on. All of these make it more difficult to determine who you are, but none of them make it impossible. Do you know for certain who operates the anonymizing service? Maybe it's the same person who owns the website you just visited! Or what about that innocuous website you visited yesterday, that offered to mail you a free $10 off coupon? Maybe the owner is willing to share information with other website owners. If so, the second website owner may be able to correlate the information from the two sites and determine who you are.
Does this mean that privacy on the Web is a lost cause? Not at all. What it means is that the best way to protect your privacy on the Internet is the same as the way you protect your privacy in normal life—through your behavior. Read the privacy statements on the websites you visit, and only do business with ones whose practices you agree with. If you're worried about cookies, disable them. Most importantly, avoid indiscriminate Web surfing—recognize that just as most cities have a bad side of town that's best avoided, the Internet does too. But if it's complete and total anonymity you want, better start looking for that cave.
小时候看美剧,就喜欢这种很大很大的幽默,原来这里也有精彩的论述。居然看笑了。
如果你想保持完全彻底的匿名,你最好在人之初就找一个山洞并拒绝任何人造访你。
哈哈……
某网站有支付功能,
然后法人的亲戚偷偷注册一家购物网站,
法人亲戚的亲戚再偷偷注册一家快递公司,
法人亲戚的亲戚的亲戚再偷偷注册一家售后公司……
不明真相的人类迅速聚集,然后,几家网站数据一合并,啧啧啧……
你以为人肉搜索都是邻家大哥大妈大嫂出卖的吗?
很多都是:数据库。
P.L.C的户口数据库 ,IT MASTER和WEB MASTER的数据库等等都可以。呐呐呐!
大家怎么看待互联网隐私?
有什么担忧?
还是说劳资没隐私劳资电脑没东西劳资没什么可以窥视的,无所谓!?
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我想说:我们是黑客的肉鸡,我们也是 POWER 的肉鸡。
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