Final Post

No – I’m not dead yet!!

This is a final post at Tigerstail.wordpress.com because I am tired of seeking knowledge and bitching about that which is. It is time to use my skills to develope the solutions to all of the problems I have discovered.

Join Me at jimmicap.wordpress.com

IE8 Privacy is an Oxymoron

I could have said that the IE8 privacy function is a lie or a joke but I happen to like the word oxymoron. In my preliminary tests I was acting as if my life and future depended on my online privacy and didn’t bother doing a comparison. I found my surfing history in cache memory, that Ccleaner didn’t wipe the cache memory information and that there was a hidden system file called PrivacIE (pronounce that “Priv A C”) which contained a hashed index.dat file which was untouchable. Not a bad find for a quick survey. I did a preliminary test against Firefox 3 automatically wiping all privacy data on closing and found a few lingering cookies which Ccleaner seemed to wipe out but no cache memory of the sites I visited.

I sort of find a hashed index.dat file (in a folder called PrivacIE) and a record of my surfing history in cache memory an insulting and direct compromise of the promise of real internet privacy.

If anyone cares about the method, I’ll do a post on it.

Google Proof Sites – Part 2 Links

One of the safer ways to check on dangerous sites is to use cache pages from Google. Unfortunately, as previously discussed, not all sites can be Googled and unbelievable as it may seem not all porn sites want more patrons.

Two of the first measures of popularity that nascent webmasters learn about are links and traffic count. Sites like Alexa and Quantcast give a measure of popularity based on traffic and Technorati uses the number of incoming links as a measure of authority. Now with the emergence of Google Stats and tools, you can use Google for a lot more than finding information on a search term.

One of the first tools that webmasters learn about is the links directive. As an example:

link:fatsavage.wordpress.com

This search can be done from any Google search bar whether on their home page or in your browser. If you follow the link above, you find 73 pages linked to my blog. Try it with your own site or blog. Only problem is, I’m not sure about the accuracy.

When you go to any of the following sites which have all been exposed at fatsavage.wordpress.com you find that all of them have no incoming links. This is pretty strange for porn sites which use traffic building link exchanges and shared databases.

link:femalesex.com
link:youngsex.com
link:youngerbabes.com
link:young-models.org
link:cnomy.com
link:shockmeshocker.com

Cut and past and put them in the Google search bar or just type them in. Using Google and viewing cache pages is fairly anonymous except for all those nasty index.dat records retained on your own machine.

The only two things that these sites have in common is they all make the Fatsavage Shitlist of Law Enforcement Honeypots, and they are all engaged in the porn industry. Still, when you check thehun.net you find 291 incoming links.

Go Figure!