Harden PRIVACY : PRIVACY BADGER Tool

1.    Till few years back PRIVACY as a word meant the state of being free from unsanctioned intrusion in physical life from your peers/friends/strangers but the whole meaning has taken a new dimension since Snowden released his HIDDEN FILES last year around June.Today not only NSA but a plethora of third party agencies are after you all to track you..profile you...read you.Though in my earlier posts here,I had given a mention of few tools like disconnect.me,Adblock Plus,Ghostery etc but with time technology has further improved and here in this post I discuss about PRIVACY BADGER that is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.  If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser.  To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.Looks Interesting..!!!

3.   Once installed as seen above we get a red hexagon..indicating installed and this has color indicators as follows :

• Green means there's a third party domain, but it hasn't yet been observed tracking you across multiple sites, so it might be unobjectionable. When you first install Privacy Badger every domain will be in this green state but as you browse, domains will quickly be classified as trackers.

• Yellow means that the thirty party domain appears to be trying to track you, but it is on Privacy Badger's cookie-blocking "whitelist" of third party domains that, when analyzed, seemed to be necessary for Web functionality. In that case, Privacy Badger will load content from the domain but will try to screen out third party cookies and supercookies from it.

• Red means that content from this third party tracker has been completely disallowed.

4.   Currently available for CHROME,here I have used the beta for Mozilla browser ...though the site says they will soon release the extension for other browsers incl opera and safari too.....!!!!

TrueCaller : Is it Stealing your Info?

1.    TrueCaller is one famous application doing the rounds on Twitter Google+ Facebook Android Phones.The claim by the application goes like you login from either of the applications and you would be able to know the name of the mobile phone number owner by name.The claim actually stands right in over 90 % of the cases that I tried.This made me wonder how?...i thought like all those free forms that we keep regularly filling on the internet or some grocery shop for some free bundles or if TrueCaller has tied up with the mobile phone service providers?But then something happened that made me a little suspicious about this app.It so happened that I tried my mom's number on the application and so came the answer like "TIWARI MAM"....this made me think of how would the application know that my mom is a teacher...

2.   So I wondered if the application after installation on your mobile device actually makes all the contacts phone number available on the site with the name that I have typed against that number!!!So I tried mine which was not available, by the name "anupam CCCSP"

3.  Though it did not show promptly but after a day after I typed my phone number it came to be seen as "anupam CCCSP".So this actually means that the application is actually stealing and making my contacts info on my phone public!!!!...but then I also realized that it was me only who agreed to the terms and conditions while installing the app on my phone which most of us including me never read.

4.   So it comes actually to the naiveness of the common user who invariably without reading any of the terms and conditions agrees to install.....:-) 

TRACE INDIA

1. I came across this relatively good Data Base site in which someone has attempted to ensure most of the important things are traced to an area if not the street address.For eg when u enter a mobile number in the search query,u will get to know the city and the state from which the number belongs to or like pincodes of India are traceable to exact area identification or even vehicle numbers are traceable to the city....nice attempt but still looking for more in depth query geneartion...i m sure they are working on it...meanwhile enjoy what they offer now.Few links are given below :

MOBILE NUMBER LOOK UP at http://www.indiatrace.com/trace-mobile-number-location/trace-mobile-number.php

VEHICLE NUMBER LOOK UP at http://www.indiatrace.com/trace-vehicle-location/trace-vehicle-number.php

PINCODE LOOK UP at http://www.indiatrace.com/trace-pin-code/trace-pin-code.php

STD/AREA CODE at http://www.indiatrace.com/trace-std-code/trace-std-area-code.php

IP ADDRESS LOCATION at http://www.indiatrace.com/trace-ip-address/trace-ip-number.php

REVERSE DNS LOOKUP at http://www.indiatrace.com/trace-reverse-dns/trace-reverse-dns.php

Even TRACES PEOPLE at http://www.indiatrace.com/trace-people/trace-people.php

2. Thanks http://www.indiatrace.com/index.php