can the person or persons at the receiving end extract personal information from the data or photos about my computer?
2007-06-17 02:39:33 · 3 answers · asked by jennifer k 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
No the person receiving the photos, will only receive the data that you type to this person. They will only have your IP address assigned by your ISP.
All the data, plus photos will remain on your HDD. And this can only be removed if you take out the HDD, and beat it with a hammer. (No computer forensic expert in the world can strip data off a HDD, that has been beat with a hammer).
Your ISP, as all the data you sent in their computer, and must retain all the data by law. (In case some law agency issue a warrant for the data). And that would only be if you performed a criminal act on your pc and was caught.
Minddoctor, France
Excuse my english
2007-06-17 03:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by MINDDOCTOR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing they have is your IP address, which is used to identify your computer. They will only have access to what you sent them (mail, photos, data, etc.) but not anything else. If you are concerned about identify or information theft, it is still important to have a firewall, a good virus program such as Norton or Kaspersky installed. Also, have anti-spyware programs installed as well such as Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2007 or Spybot. A good commercial anti-spyware is Webroot's spysweeper. These should keep your computer safe from hackers.
2007-06-17 10:46:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Receivers can only get the information you send them. There is always some record that stores what you have sent...even if you use an online email service.
2007-06-17 10:46:03 · answer #3 · answered by txinferno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋