Delete Your Trace

For those of you who are familiar with the internet, must have been familiar with the term cookies, right? Cookies can say such a trail that is still stored on your computer and can be used to memercepat access to relevant web sites.

However, cookies like a double-edged sword. He could also become an enemy because it can take a computer hard disk space and to provide more opportunities for spyware that will spread through the cookie.

Peter Eckersley (Staff of the Electronic Frontier Foundation senior technology / EFF), argued that the data configuration information about the type of browser, operating system, plugins, and fonts can be installed and compiled by the website that makes a unique portrait of the visitors.


This means that most internet users are anonymous or not clear. "Even if you disable cookies and have been using proxies to hide your IP address, your footsteps can still be traced," said Eckersley. Unfortunately, the data is not really able to identify a user, but creates a unique browsers "fingerprints" that it can be used to identify the user when visiting other web sites.
Currently, there are already some companies began to offer the type of web tracking cookies to help track down rogue e-commerce. A total of 41 companies such as parameters, ThreatMetrix, and Iovation also been applying in the banking system, e-commerce and social web sites.