Revealing signatures

[Linton]

Some of you have signatures that show a board with details of the viewers internet status etc.How do you go about encrypting or removing such detail?

[GreyOctober]

You ask the "offending" person nicelly to remove his sig

There is another way thoug, come to think of it. You can set your browser to view html as text only (no images).

Cheers!

[CCIP]

I think he means the sigs that say "your IP is ####### and you are using IE/Firefox/something".

How to remove this detail? I'm not so sure. When you're on the internet, you always have an IP. If you don't want them to show your real IP, then you have to go trough proxies; that'll slow down your connection and cause other problems.

Meanwhile, so far as I'm aware, the sigs are only seen by you and are harmless. They aren't any more harmful to your computer privacy than reading email or visiting this forum - which, unlike the sig, actually record and remember your IP.

[lesrae]

See here for more info: http://www.danasoft.com/

[kiwi_2005]

Are you talking about my sig. I think its time i changed it. . Just so your know, only you can see the details i can't or noone else. Its a trick of the sig, running in real-time. When i look at the sig i see my details when anyone looks at the sig they see theres. But none of us can see the other we only see our own details. Hope that explains it.

Unless Neal or a moderator tells me to remove it or posts like this keep coming up, i'll remove it.

[STEED]

Chill out with a cold beer, what's that's to do with sigs I here you say answer none work that one.

[Wim Libaers]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I think he means the sigs that say "your IP is ####### and you are using IE/Firefox/something".

How to remove this detail? I'm not so sure. When you're on the internet, you always have an IP. If you don't want them to show your real IP, then you have to go trough proxies; that'll slow down your connection and cause other problems.

Meanwhile, so far as I'm aware, the sigs are only seen by you and are harmless. They aren't any more harmful to your computer privacy than reading email or visiting this forum - which, unlike the sig, actually record and remember your IP.

It does send information about your browsing habits to the site hosting the image. As explained, getting the IP removed could be tricky, but changing the user agent strings in the browser might work for hiding the other stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Linton

Some of you have signatures that show a board with details of the viewers internet status etc.How do you go about encrypting or removing such detail?

Everywhere you go on the internet, you leave a "fingerprint". You just don't normally realize it until you see this signiture:


This is older then dirt and nothing to be worried about.


If your really worried about leaving your proverbial "fly unzipped", go here:

http://www.grc.com/default.htm

In specific, you can probe your ports here (found in above link):

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

[Iceman]

Yea...definatley leaves a trace definatley...http://www.anonymizer.com/...

P.S. You are being watched....

[Ducimus]

>>P.S. You are being watched....

Sad to say, this is true where the internet is concerned. Very 1984ish.

[CCIP]

Awe snap!!!

My new desktop

:rotfl:

[Sir Big Jugs]

Back at Ubi I almost got banned with a sig like that!

[Linton]

Thankyou all for your replies.Very interesting how much of a fingerprint you leave all over the internet-I am investigating some of the security options.

[xrvjorn]

Originally Posted by Linton

Thankyou all for your replies.Very interesting how much of a fingerprint you leave all over the internet-I am investigating some of the security options.

Not only do you leave a trace. In the EU, it's mandatory for your ISP to save that trace and hand it over to Big Brother (your gov't) at his request.

The 'data retention directive' law was passed early this year and was pushed by the orwellian ministers of justice of your and my countries, Clarke and Bodström.

Bodström also wanted to store the contents of emails, SMSes and entire cell phone conversations for seven years, but for now he had to back down.

Counter measures are available for free at http://tor.eff.org/

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by xrvjorn

Counter measures are available for free at http://tor.eff.org/

Tor only encrypts traffic to/from websites or other Tor-compatible services, but your system still resolves DNS via your ISP, so they still know exactly which sites you visit. For more or less total security you also need TorDNS:
http://sandos.ath.cx/~badger/tordns.html