In this age of the internet, almost everyday we spend time surfing the internet in whatever way. Most of us do this, oblivious to the fact that we are sending lots of information to the world by doing this. When we visit websites, those websites can pick up our ip-adress. With this ip-adress, those who mean harm, can access a bunch of information about us, including where we live.
There are ways to protect yourself from this, though. There are tons of websites that offer you tools to browse the internet anonymously. Most of these sites use so-called proxy-servers. So how do these work?
A proxy-server is a tool that lets you type in a url, and opens it for you. Instead of sending your ip-adress, it sends its own, and this way you are protected from people who are trying to register your ip.
Another danger that threatens your anonymity on the internet is e-mail. You may have thought it wasn't such a big deal, but here's a heads-up. When you send an e-mail, you send a number of things. One of them is the message you send, the visible part that is displayed in your web-based interface or outlook express window. Another is the so-called ?header?. In this header crucial information is stored, and the people you send e-mails to can read this header and extract that information. By doing that they can gather a lot of information about you.
So what can be done to stop this? There are a number of ways to send free anonymous e-mails. One of them is mail spoofing. Mail spoofing means you use an smtp server to fake e-mails. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and it is quite simple to use. You just open a DOS command screen and type in:
telnet
o
smtp.example-server.com 25
HELO
MAIL FROM:
RCPT TO:
DATA
subject:
the body of your e-mail
.
QUIT
This way you can fake the sender details and send e-mail anonymously. This does have a downside, because although your real e-mail address is hidden, your ip gets sent along this way. However, the average internet user will be fooled by this neat little trick. I point out that this is more suited for jokes than real anonymity.
There is a way you can send completely free anonymous e-mails, namely through certain websites. These anonymity websites offer either tools so surf anonymously, as I have discussed, or they allow you to send free anonymous e-mails. You can do this by entering the recipient, subject, and body of your e-mail, and the site sends it for you, without revealing you identity to the person receiving the e-mail. They often put a message at the bottom of the e-mail explaining that this is an e-mail sent by an anonymity website and a little disclaimer.
This is a completely anonymous way to e-mail.
So there are a number of ways to secure your anonymity on the web, with simple tools that are easy to find with the magic of google, we can surf anonymously, and send e-mails without revealing our identity. We don't have to worry about being tracked down to our hometown just by visiting a website.
ITV, the biggest commercial television network in the UK, broadcasting the most talked about television and making a major contribution to the UK’s culture, economy and communities has also became the first terrestrial broadcaster that started to broadcast its programmes on mobile phone handsets in the UK.
ITV1 which is the most popular commercial television channel in Britain watched on average by 45 million people every week and has the largest programme budget of any commercial channel in Europe and quiz network ITV Play have offered on 3 networks, with users charged daily or monthly rates. The fans of Coronation Street, The X Factor and Prime Suspect can view their favourite shows via their mobile phone handsets.
ITV network is saying that the other channels will be available in the coming months and will "roll out fairly quickly from now onwards". Further more ITV’s spokeswoman advised that the service would be available to nearly 90% of the UK's population.
The new technology attracts most of the broadcasters as the statistics shows.
O2, a leading provider of mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK, a leader in non-voice services and data connections via GPRS, 3G and WLAN made an experiment on around 400 people who were access to 16 channels. The results revealed by this experiment are astonishing showing that 80 per cent of participants would subscribe to a mobile TV service if it was available.
Sky joined with Vodafone and launched a 19-channel mobile service while BT offered video from Sky News, Channel 4 and Cartoon Network.
BBC was not out of the competition offering pre-recorded content for mobiles including bonus clips to accompany Rob Brydon's BBC Three comedy Annually Retentive.
The bad news for the fans of the new technology who already started to watch programmes on mobile phones or computers is that they will need a TV licence to do it because these broadcasts are governed by the same rules as traditional television sets. The TV Licensing advised that the ones that don’t pay for the TV licence may face fines of £1,000.
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