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How do I remove all metadata from a quicktime movie file?
My camera takes .mov files as movies. How can I remove all metadata from them so I can feel confident sharing them on youtube without accidentally sharing when/where they were filmed, what type of ...
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How can I permanently delete messages from gmail?
For privacy reasons, I want to permanently delete a lot of mail from gmail. I've downloaded it using IMAP. However, when I try to delete the mail, it keeps coming back. This happens even when I delete ...
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How do I crop or black out personal information from a large number of short video clips
I have a large number (1000+) of very short (<20s) .avi that show captured medical imaging data.
These images need to be published for public distribution.
I need to crop/blur/black out the ...
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Removing all Facebook evidence from a PC
My wife currently accesses her Facebook account from two computers, her PC and my laptop. During the course of her Facebook activities she has gradually accumulated a number of 'link-ins' from various ...
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Where does LinkedIn get so much information from? [closed]
I've just discovered (a friend of mine told me) that LinkedIn shows (in Contacts>Connections) my full private as well as the business address. Leaving in brackets that I don't believe I have ever ...
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My ISP responded to my request with another user's content, is that permissible? And if not, how can I prove it?
Over the past 3 months, I've had two instances when I visited stackoverflow.com only to discover myself logged in as a completely different user. This seems to have happened to others as well. In that ...
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Register and post on websites anonymously [closed]
I have discovered that search engines can index any site you've registered on or posted content on, allowing anyone to find the sites you've registered on and the content you posted if they somehow ...
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How to protect privacy(from the w command) on shared linux machines?
In my workplace, we have shared Linux machines to which all employees log on to do their work. However, a simple 'w' command gives me a list of who's logged in and what they're doing. The same applies ...
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How can someone trace web surfer behind proxy? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get the real IP address of someone using a proxy?
I stumbled upon a government linked company website. There is support form in the website.
The website warn me ...
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How can I route all my Internet usage through a remote server?
I have a remote Red Hat Linux server in Hong Kong with rackspace with root access.
At home I have a regular ADSL2 100 Mbit/s connection using a FRITZ!Box.
I would like to understand the ways of ...
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Does using DuckDuckGo on Chrome or Chromium browsers eliminate the privacy advantage? [closed]
The search engine DuckDuckGo purports to be much more private than other search engines such as Google. However, I use the Google Chromium browser which, I believe is collecting data on my web usage. ...
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DNS connections to my ISP during TOR?
With Little Snitch on my mac, I noticed that during TOR/TorButton use (latest version), little snitch says there's still an occasional DNS connection to my ISP. What's the purpose of this, is it a ...
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Tunneling traffic through a proxy using SSH - what does the proxy server see?
If I am accessing information (in a browser or via bittorent) through an SSH tunnel, what info will then be possible to obtain on the SSH/proxy server itself?
As far as I have understood, the ...
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I accidentally sent an email to “undisclosed-recipients:;”
In Thunderbird, because it sometimes stupidly does this thing where when I forward emails, the To or CC/BCC boxes just can't be selected at all. (I think it's an extension causing it but it didn't ...
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How does Google Chrome know where I am despite the fact that I'm using a proxy?
I've just arrived in Budapest, Hungary and logged on to my computer.
I'm tunnelling my connection through a VPS server I rent in the UK using SSH. A visit to whatismyip.com reports the I.P. address ...
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Where can you see the data that's been recorded by a tracking cookie?
I've always read that cookies can, and do, store sensitive information such as OTHER websites that you've visited outside the one to which the cookie belongs.
I've started to read up about it and can ...
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win7 hide localhost from other users
I want to be logged into a clouddrive (y:) via a desktop app. on biz-user-pc and not have the localhost 127.0.0.1 folder be seen or accessible in family-user-pc on same computer. I'm running ...
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Is there a way to delete history in Firefox 11 over a certain age? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I delete everything in my Firefox 11 history older than N days?
Say I want to delete browsing history over a month old in Firefox, is there a way to do that ...
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Privacy, VPN and routers
Ever since this ACTA push-up the things are starting to heat up around torrents and privacy.
I am using Tribler now, but this is not secure enough for me. Not enough privacy.
I've been using in the ...
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Can I force Google Chrome or Google Search to not use HTTPS with google.com? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How force Chrome to use google.com search engine without https
Every time I go to www.google.com in Chrome it goes to HTTPS://www.google.com, which happens when signed ...
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Can I get personalized web content if I use AdBlock?
I use AdBlock in Chrome and I'm subscribed to the following lists:
Fanboy tracking list, Fanboy annoyance list, Easylist privacy, the main Fanboy list, the main Easylist.
Am I still able to receive ...
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Tor + Public Wi-Fi … safe?
If I were running a virtual machine, with all traffic always being sent and received through Tor, would this be safe on a public Wi-Fi connection? Surely my traffic cannot be sniffed as it's ...
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Multiple simultaneous browser sessions
I'm looking for a chrome or firefox plugin that allows me to have windows with different sessions. It's a bit like chrome's incognito works: if you open an incognito window, it won't share the cookies ...
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Are there ways of preventing flash cookies from being cross-browser accessible?
I hope this is right place to ask. I'd wish that each browser in my computer (running in the same OS) had its own flash cookies ('Local Shared Objects') and were unable access each other's. Could it ...
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How can I install and run .xpi browser extension in Windows 7?
I'm trying to open a ".xpi" file in Windows 7. The file is a browser extension for avoiding data tracking designed to run under Mozilla: DoNotTrack+. ver 2.0.8.
Can anyone tell me either, how to ...
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Used the internet and deleted history (Internet Explorer). Can anyone find out still that I used it? What can they still find out?
As the question states: I used the internet on a shared machine and deleted history (Internet Explorer), which deletes all of the following:
I do not want anyone to know that I used the internet ...
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Used the internet and deleted history (Internet Explorer). Can anyone find out still that I used it? What can they still find out?
As the question states: I used the internet on a shared machine and deleted history (Internet Explorer), which deletes all of the following: http://i41.tinypic.com/adoor7.png. I do not want anyone to ...
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View Cookies in Mozilla
If you use Mozilla Firefox in the "never remember history" setting, how can one see which cookies are currently saved (and possibly delete specific ones)? The answer I've heard is to look in ...
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OpenVPN: No connection unless you connect to one of the specified configs. Is it possible?
What I want is ... to restrict the traffic on my PC. I would like to tunnel every single piece of data through my VPN. Which is hard, since after my PC started, the autorun stuff just starts, and ...
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How to disable “Download scanning protection” of new Chrome-17?
In recent update of Google Chrome internet browser (in stable channel), there is a new security/privacy option:
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/02/faster-browsing-safer-downloading.html
In ...
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Prevent Windows 7 User Accounts from accessing files in other User Accounts
I'm trying to set up another User Account on my Windows 7 Professional laptop for use by another person. I do not want that person to have access to any of the files in my User Account on the same ...
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Living outside the cloud [closed]
[EDIT - to simplify and focus the question]
I want to reduce dependencies on cloud solutions for email, feed reading, backup, file sharing, etc. What desktop apps (or locally-hosted web apps) can ...
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How can I be totally invisible to Facebook?
I don't trust Facebook. I deleted my account, but I don't want them getting information from me from other sites, either; for instance, those with "Like" buttons cause my browser to request assets ...
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Looking for an encrypted, persistent and live Linux distro preferably with Tor
I am looking for a live linux distro (for installing on a USB flash) that is encrypted and provides anonymity and is also persistent so that I could install apps on it. The best I have found so far is ...
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How is Thunderbird protecting my privacy?
For emails that have pictures, Thunderbird doesn't display the pictures, saying that it's protecting my privacy.
How is it protecting my privacy by not displaying pictures? Pictures are things I am ...
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Cookies handling on Internet Explorer 9
I've testing how to configure my browser(s) to avoid/reject most tracking and so far here's while trying to keep functionality what I got (please feel free to correct me)
Browsers are IE9 and FF
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Adblocking jQuery
As a privacy-concerned user, I try to make sure that Google, Facebook and the like do not get informed of whatever page I visit through web bug like Google Analytics and the Facebook "I like" button. ...
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How to remove tracking cookies
I am looking for a tool that will be able to (ideally) proactively block tracking cookies in a browser as I don't really like to see the relevant ad from the sites I visited on other web sites. After ...
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Which browsers incorporate enhanced privacy settings?
I am looking for a minimal browser with enhanced privacy support. Security should be built-in and not provided by extra add-ons.
Specifically, the things I am looking for are as follows:
When ...
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Do I leave an identifiable trace if I use a torrent client on different network connections?
I am using a usb-stick based operating system. So I use different computers and network connections. If I use Vuze for example, could a remote entity (eg a tracker) track my movements by seeing some ...
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Why is my true IP location revealed *inside* my VPS host?
I'm using VPS hosting based on Windows Server 2008. The machine is physically located in the US and I'm connecting via RDP using mRemoteNG from my home in Europe.
It's easy to Google many "IP ...
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Is there a way (e.g. an extension) to avoid Google Chrome from saving a specific site to the History?
I use to visit erotic websites, and I would like those websites to not be logged to the browser's history (so I don't have to always removing them manually), is there a way?
I believe I can just turn ...
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Does using Tor prevent my ISP/sysadmin from seeing what sites I visit?
Does using The Onion Router prevent my Internet Service Provider or system administrator from seeing what websites I visit?
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How to allow Firefox to save forms, but prohibit search bar saving
I wonder if there is a way to make Firefox to continue saving forms (like mail and nickname fields), but stop it from saving search history in the search field next to the address bar?
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What to do with 6.7GB of logs from a http proxy used by someone to initiate attacks?
Background:
I had experimented with nginx's proxy caching mechanisms one night to see if I could speed up a very slow website for a friend of mine -- this experiment went on late into the night, ...
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How can I prevent Google Street View from tracking my location?
Since a Google Street View car has passed by my neighborhood, it has associated my wireless router's MAC address to its geographical address. The problem is that my address can be easily obtained by ...
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Destroy a hard drive without proper equipment [closed]
I need to make two hard drives unreadable. Unfortunately, I have some constraints which make this harder than usual (in particular, they rule out the answers to other questions):
I don’t have a ...
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How can I use Teamviewer anonymously with TOR network?
I would like to be able to use Teamviewer anonymously to avoid revealing my real IP address while I access sensitive data on my remote server. The data being transferred is encrypted.
I have looked ...
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UltraSurf not working, used to work on same network (and is working fine on friend's computer on same network)
I'm using UltraSurf (10.17), it used to work fine but now its not working on my computer (Windows 7) and the window keeps showing "Connecting Server..." and after sometime, it fails to establish the ...
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How to run a program through Tor
I want to run programs from my ubuntu machine through Tor, without TAILS. i was wondering if this is possible?
