Do you know how much information is being stored about you every time you use a public website?

If your answer is ” a lot or more”  then you need to know that Google is taking it to a new level of privacy invation.

They will store and keep a record of every single identifiable piece of information that about you that they can put their hands on, and based on it, will re-shape your perception of the  internet for you.

Imagine you doing a search for any keywords withiut having cookies enabled. You will received your search but the advertisments will be random and would make no sense because they don’t know what interests you.

Now do the same search with the cookies enabled and thwo things will happen: Fisrtly the adds now are 100% relating to your previous searches and interests, and two the search results might also be arranged in such a way that related advertisers with less relevant content will be displayed first.

Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data is recorded. Major search engines capture your IP address and use tracking cookies to make a record of your search terms, the time of your visit, and the links you choose – then they store that information in a giant database.

Those searches reveal a shocking amount of personal information about you, such as your interests, family circumstances, political leanings, medical conditions, and more. This information is modern-day gold for marketers, government officials, hackers and criminals – all of whom would love to get their hands on your private search data.

Luckily, there are alternatives out there.

The one I use is the StartPage.com a service from IXQuick.com. The new search engine basically strips down all your indetifiable info and then sends an anonymous request to Google and display back the result.

Would this alter your search, yes probably based on the fact that the requests are anonymous, but if milions of searches are anonymous Google’s search patter recognition add serving algorithm might have a hard time serving us stupid tracking adds.

So, I will take my chances.

Go check this out and let me

https://startpage.com/eng/

Create a self-signed SSL certificate with IIS 6.0 Resource Kit SelfSSL

The IIS 6.0 Resource Kit version contains a utility called SelfSSL.exe for instantly creating and installing a self-signed testing certificate into IIS. The resource kit is freely downloadable from the Microsoft website. Although the tool is intended for IIS 6.0, it works just as well on IIS 5.1. It is so simple to use that no instructions are required beyond the pointer to the download.

• Download IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools
• Install the resource kit (requires Windows Server 2003, Windows XP)
• From the Windows Start Menu, go to the “\Programs\IIS Resources\SelfSSL” folder and select “SelfSSL”.
• Instructions will be listed in a command prompt. Type “selfssl” to run the program.
• Type “y” to confirm overriding/installing the certificate on the given site.
• Test that it worked by visiting https://localhost/.

The syntax for creating and assigning the cert to a web site:

selfssl /N:cn=www.yourdomain.com /V:3650 /S:123456789

The /V: is the validity of the certificate in days. So, for dev, I went 10 years.
The /S: is the site ID in IIS6. This is found in the metabase, or in the IIS manager (or can can ommit it and  add the cert manually )

Disable “Reopen Last Browsing Session” feature using the editing registry.

1. Login to your PC as Administrator.

2. Click Start–> type “regedit.exe” in the program search box and hit enter.

3. This will launch Registry Editor. In the left side pane, navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Internet Explorer –> Recovery

4. In the right side pane, right-click in empty area and click “DWORD (32-bit) Value”.

5. Rename it as “NoReopenLast Session”.

6. Double-click on the entry and type “Value data” as “1″.

7. Close Registry Editor.

8. Restart Internet Explorer 8.

Default behaviour on Cisco Aironet AP is not to broadcast the SSID.

To enable SSID broadcasting the guest-mode keyword must be used:

dot11 ssid WIFI1
   vlan 100
   authentication open
   guest-mode

 

This is all good, but if you want to add another SSID on the radio interface, the following error will occur:

Dot11Radio1: Guest-ssid already existing on ssid WIFI1

The reason for this error is the mutiple SSID feature not being enable. The keyword for this feature is mbssid.

The mbssid needs to be enabled on both the interface and the SSID, by replacing guest-mode with mbssid guest-mode.

dot11 ssid WIFI1
   vlan 100
   authentication open
   mbssid guest-mode

dot11 ssid WIFI2
   vlan 200
   authentication open
   mbssid guest-mode

interface Dot11Radio1
no ip address
!
ssid WIFI1
!
ssid WIFI2
!
mbssid
station-role root

If mbssid is not supported on the interface the follwoing error will appear:

MBSSID is not supported on this radio – multiple MAC addresses not found.

To verify if mbssid is supported the following command can be issued:

show controllers

Number of supported simultaneous BSSID on Dot11Radio1: 1