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Questions tagged [tracking]

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Tracing the location of a mobile IP from an email

I'm a TV scriptwriter - and not hugely tech-savvy, so please bear with me... If the police have an email, sent by a suspect over a 3G or 4G network, could they use the IP address (since they know when it was sent) to find out - from the service…
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Should I be worried of tracking domains on a banking website?

Finland's largest bank OP (former Osuuspankki) has added tracking domains (all three owned by Adobe) in their website redesign: These domains are loaded when signed in: 2o7.net demdex.net omtrdc.net Is this considered acceptable? What information…
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Why are ransomware attackers not tracked down via bitcoin transactions?

A bitcoin transaction has details of the incoming address as well as the outgoing address (where the bitcoins are being transferred), so my question is why that outgoing address has not done anything in tracking down ransomware attackers, like the…
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Are images in the FROM name a risk in emails?

I know about images posing a risk to security. I don't open suspicious junk emails for this reason. However, occasionally I have to check my junk email folder without clicking on an email just in case anything mistakenly went in there. I am seeing a…
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Does Mozilla's new "Facebook Container" have any advantages over uBlock Origin?

Yesterday Mozilla launched a new Firefox plugin called Facebook Container: This makes it harder for Facebook to track your activity on other websites via third-party cookies. […] When you install this extension it will delete your Facebook cookies…
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Workarounds for sites that are broken without cookies?

For privacy against tracking, I have my browser set up to refuse cookies by default. I only allow cookies from whitelisted domains. In general, this works OK for me. However, I now have at least one case where it has become inconvenient. I pay for a…
user51881
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What does the android device name reveal?

I was looking at changing the device name on my phone and the only instructions I found were to either root the device or use adb. This got me thinking: is changing the device name restricted because the device name is packed with device specific…
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Can google read my mind?

I had just been looking, in a plain text file, using a VI-ish editor, at my notes about garlic. I did not use the clipboard. The file is on my HD; nothing is 'in the cloud'. In the editor, I had searched for both 'garlic' and 'fertil'. After…
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How was The Pirate Bay datacenter kept hidden?

How were The Pirate Bay's servers kept hidden for so long? You would think that it would be easy finding the servers that so many DNS servers are pointing to. Tracing the chain to the main datacenter should have been an easy task, but why was it…
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How could I block or at least detect the use of ultrasonic side channels or Google Nearby Messages API on my smartphone?

My question is about the use of ultrasonic messages that are part of the modern advertising ecosystem and are also used by the Google Nearby Messages API. When it comes to advertising, the type of ultrasonic messages that I am referring to are…
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Use WiFi tracking to identify burglars

Recently I had the following idea. I live in a rural area where few people pass in front of our house. Burglars like such areas, because the chance of being seen breaking into a house is small. Assuming burglars carry a smartphone, would it be…
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MAC randomization for Bluetooth?

Companies, governments, etc. can track Bluetooth and WiFi network scans passively by looking at a same MAC address over space and time (Bluetooth/WiFi Identity tracking in public spaces - How to discover?). Starting in Android 8.0: Android devices…
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What's the difference between using duckduckgo with !google bangs and using google directly?

Is there any security advantage in searching on duckduckgo using !google? Or is it effectively the same as searching directly on google?
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Can the police track my phone even if I remove the SIM card?

If the Police have your mobile phone number then I understand they can track your mobile phone. Now, I understand the mobile phone number is linked to the sim card but if you simply change the sim card does that stop the Police from tracking you?…
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Why aren't ransomware deployers arrested?

Why aren't people who use ransomware to extort money from people arrested? Using ransomware is illegal, presumably. The idea that Bitcoin is anonymous is a myth. Given this, it seems like they should be arrested. Is there a reason they aren't?
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