Thursday, March 26, 2009

On-line IP Tagging....3/30

The neat little trick that Essent used to pick up my IP address is the same one that can bite your butt.



If you go from this site to the Essent site to check your paystub without totally dumping out of your browser, it will show up that you were 'logged to the blog.' And, they'll have your IP along with your employee number.



Can we spell pink-slip?



Also, if you've been cruzin' through their websites looking for neat quotes and stuff, they already have your IP, just matching it to a name is what they want to do.



So, how does one find anonymity? Laptops from a hotspot, check your stub at work, or from the library. There are also ways to shed that nasty IP. More on that, later.



And, if they really push the issue, how secure is your computer? Who has access to it? I'd imagine several people, so it might not have been you at all.

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