pole_smoker
Oct 12, 2014, 7:48 PM
For those that care about such things, there's a lot of spyware, adware/malware on this site.
I frequently run programs to detect such things since even if you run all of the script blockers, and anti-virus protection stuff still gets through, and it's here on this site.
sailfish
Oct 12, 2014, 7:59 PM
What examples of spyware have you found specifically?
pole_smoker
Oct 12, 2014, 8:57 PM
What examples of spyware have you found specifically?
Adware, and tracking stuff.
jem_is_bi
Oct 12, 2014, 10:48 PM
Adware, and tracking stuff.
All web sites do that.
void()
Oct 13, 2014, 8:16 AM
Google analytic tracking beacons are used on a plethora of sites, this one is no exception. The site also uses javascript as do again, a plethora of other sites. The javascript can be anything from displaying a date, navigation aids, pop up windows.
I use Do Not Track Me[1 (https://www.abine.com/index.html)], have used Ghostery[2 (https://www.ghostery.com/en/)]. Elian uses Noscript[3 (http://noscript.net/)], I have also used Adblock+, Adblock. I also use a crafted hosts file on my computer which blocks advertisers via redirecting their advertising servers to 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.0 depending on how generous the system feels. My root pass-phrase is now biometric, double fault redundant, and a twenty four character pass-phrase which changes randomly in nature every 72hrs. Yay! I know my root pass-phrase for three whole days, then it spits me an encrypted email with a fresh one!
My computer files are themselves backed up via a cvs type of system. The data is actually set to generate its own random md5 hash checksums, and assigned to its own tripwire that connects to a dead man's switch. If my data is altered without exact permissions, accordingly to policy/policies then, X happens in a very expedient manner. All my data is secured, scrubbed, sanitized and locked down in such manner that it would take a super cray computer cluster at least three trillion years to unwrap the first layer of encryption, next would be another eleven layers of encryption. In a sense there is no sense looking for my data because it gets dumped into a memory hole.
But truthfully, I have no real data of value, at least not in some fancy electronic device. Why make it easy? Now, if they start talking to my feces, I'm in trouble. *chuckles*