Web 2.0 and 3.0 has changed the methods of corporations and agencies to track you during your online stay and browsing sessions. Large social media platforms have partnered with the world agencies to find if "You" want to talk about any certain topic. If "You" like or dislike certain issue. And they all do it with your consent. "You" deliberately allow them to build analytics based upon your internet usage and then later guess about your personality to keep you on their watchlist.
Today's post discusses a simple method that can let you know about the data transfer between your computer and unintended audiences.
Considering a scenario in which you are visiting a fictitious domain "ABCD.com", you will naturally consider communication between your computer and "ABCD.com" to remain only between you two and not to any other third party domains, otherwise authorized by either "You" or "ABCD.com" and with mutual consent.
For instance, upon typing the URL "ABCD.com" in the browser and hitting enter on they keyboard, you certainly do not expect to do anything else than land on the site's homepage, period. But, what if "ABCD.com" sends a message to "EFGH.com" and communicates your presence that hey! we have that buddy of ours back again who was very annoying to you last time. Or in another scenario, ads served by "EFGH.com" are also logging your behavior on "ABCD.com" and accordingly presenting you ads what they feel might be of some relevance to you.
That's a breach of privacy. And it is taking place through HTTP protocol upon your visit to your desired website.
Today's post provides you instructions about tracking suspicious activity that may originate through your browsing session and know if your desired website is also sending traffic to another website through you or their own servers at the time of your visit.
This is also known as HTTP Sniffing.
Instructions:
1- Go to http://www.cleanersoft.com/sniffer/free_http_sniffer.htm
2- Download the application and install it on your windows platform
3- See the action live as it happens.
Today's post discusses a simple method that can let you know about the data transfer between your computer and unintended audiences.
Considering a scenario in which you are visiting a fictitious domain "ABCD.com", you will naturally consider communication between your computer and "ABCD.com" to remain only between you two and not to any other third party domains, otherwise authorized by either "You" or "ABCD.com" and with mutual consent.
For instance, upon typing the URL "ABCD.com" in the browser and hitting enter on they keyboard, you certainly do not expect to do anything else than land on the site's homepage, period. But, what if "ABCD.com" sends a message to "EFGH.com" and communicates your presence that hey! we have that buddy of ours back again who was very annoying to you last time. Or in another scenario, ads served by "EFGH.com" are also logging your behavior on "ABCD.com" and accordingly presenting you ads what they feel might be of some relevance to you.
That's a breach of privacy. And it is taking place through HTTP protocol upon your visit to your desired website.
Today's post provides you instructions about tracking suspicious activity that may originate through your browsing session and know if your desired website is also sending traffic to another website through you or their own servers at the time of your visit.
This is also known as HTTP Sniffing.
Instructions:
1- Go to http://www.cleanersoft.com/sniffer/free_http_sniffer.htm
2- Download the application and install it on your windows platform
3- See the action live as it happens.
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