Is Secure Browsing as Secure as it's Cracked up to Be?

[Rob Williams]

For people surfing the Internet, aka: most of us, an increasing concern is the lack of privacy that's becoming more evident by the day. How many times have you visited a website and saw a banner ad that peddled local dating, with pictures and profiles of potential hopefuls from your exact city? Where privacy is concerned, things like this are a bit scary, but really, they're only the beginning.

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[TheCrimsonStar]

Well in response to your comment about online dating..all those sites do is check your IP address, which also will tell you what city they are in. All websites log IPs that have connected to their site, that's not a concern for me.

As for the private browsing, yeah no program is perfect..there is always going to be flaws and ways to exploit said flaws (Windows 7 Zero-Day exploit anyone?) Companies are constantly fixing flaws in their programs, and even though some flaws are fixed, there will always be more somewhere; you just have to know where to look for them.

 

[Kougar]

That was particularly disturbing to read about Firefox's plug-ins having their own tracking. I never knew the Adobe flash plug-in kept it's own cache/cookies for example. Computing is becoming an onion, there are so many layers to anything, such as privacy, that most users may never find them all.