The reason i asked such questions bcos he studies computer science or engineering & I have no such pc skills or knowledge therefore I do not feel safe of those info being present. Can he or anyone uses those data against me? or will my pc be hacked or in danger? I feel like im being used as a guiene pig. Sorry to post such questions & I hope to hear from ur answers soon. Many thx in advance. :)
2007-02-26 03:04:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Yes, all that information is safely broadcast through your firewall so that web applications can send you the data that your PC itself needs in order to use a certain resource
2007-02-26 03:08:00 · answer #1 · answered by Funky B Funky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well generally the answer is about trust if you can trust your friend or not.
if you have a firewall installed on a system
A firewall's basic task is to control traffic between computer networks with different zones of trust. Typical examples are the Internet which is a zone with no trust and an internal network which is (and should be) a zone with high trust. The ultimate goal is to provide controlled interfaces between zones of differing trust levels through the enforcement of a security policy and connectivity model based on the least privilege principle and separation of duties.
so its like no one can get in without your explicit consent
besides your ip address changes every time you log on even if you use most modern broadband connection
unless ofcourse you have applied for a static ip address.
i dont know if this makes you paranoid its not that only your friend can get any info. generally when you visit a website it collects data about your computer and sometimes even you!! to serve you better for instance google provides a tool called google analytics to users.
it's just like enemy of the state movie.. you can find the ip address and locate it against the world map. find out which language you use
the browser
the operating system
what is your screen resolution
what is your system name [sometimes]
other details such as if you have flash or java
if so what versions of them
if you are a returning vistor or a new visitor and so on and so forth
so it doesnt matter if you get these details ; all they can tell you is that you have been here at this point of time
unless ofcourse you tunnel it through a proxy
the link shows a pic of the googles anaytics software
2007-02-26 03:16:12 · answer #2 · answered by Blistika Barnacles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry, it's quite safe. It's quite normal too! It's actually a part of how the internet works.
When your browser sends a request for a page from a remote server, it also sends the following "header" information (and more!):
-"User agent" string: Information about the browser and operating system.
-Preferred language: Language (human) that you prefer to receive pages in.
-"HTTP accept" string: The types of pages (text, html, xml etc) that your browser can handle.
This header information can be used (and abused!) by websites to do any of the following (and more!):
-Send an "IE only" version of a page to IE browsers.
-Send a Russian version of a page to a Russian broswer.
-Send a HTML version of a page to a browser that *can't* handle XHTML.
So, to sum up, browsers send quite a bit of information to web servers but this has always been the case and isn't considered "dangerous".
2007-02-26 13:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the set-up.... If you are trying to do this from your home PC through your ISP, I don't think you will succeed... because you are acttually seeing your own PC - not his.
If you are both on the same physical network, then you should be able to see his IP address, but if you have a firewall on your PC then he cannot hack into it. (or I'd be surprised if he could). Does that help?
2007-02-26 03:10:07 · answer #4 · answered by Robert W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like it! If you want to know what the "people in the know" do, then google TOR
All is better again, only the super top feeding level can get you (NSA, Chineese Security, etc) Your friend is out in the cold. I bet even the FBI would have problems tracking you.
So simple.Takes under 2 minutes to install into your Firefox web browser. Even your ISP won't know what you are doing!
2007-02-26 03:38:05 · answer #5 · answered by fwiiw 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
anyone and everyone can see this info if they know how, you should have a firewall on your pc or a hardware firewall to be safe, try zone alarm for starters.
2007-02-26 03:08:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋