Internet Security keeps ringing bells in my head whenever I connect to Internet through my personal comp. I first took notice of it when I saw a video about Google on Google videos. Do you know that google keeps a track of everything you do on google and keeps interrelating its data entries! And by everything, I mean literally everything, even the word you type to search on google. The related words that google search suggests is based on these words only. So I guess, the overall database structure of google is something like it keeps a track of gmail/orkut users, like who is signing from which machine, and it keeps the track of search keywords, like which machine is searching for which keyword and relating the two it can easily make out that you are searching for that thing. Wow! people know so much about me without my knowledge!!
Anyway, so I increased the security of personal firewall (Sygate) to manual and maximum, so that I know which machine is trying to contact which program on my computer and sending the data to which IP. And then the results started to come in, and O.M.G. many of the sites stopped working on my computer. For example, yahoo, WP(:-s), MSN messenger etc. etc. I am so surprised to see that people do want to know me this desperately and at any cost.
To my surprise google gets all my data from the browser (which I have given full permission to access net!) and these sites call other programs to get the data. Though there is one more program (something called SAcc.exe, surfaccuracy) which continuously try to send data to google and I keep stopping it. God what is happening to this techno-driven world, will anyone let me keep my private life private??
Anyway, to cut the long story short, no one will let me do anything on their site, till I give them access to this personal data. And I, the poor soul, am left with no choice, being a true techno, have got soo much dependent on net that I allow them to take away my private life. sobs… So the gist of the story is think twice before connecting to net, as they are watching out for you.
I am now wondering if Matrix was a Reality or a Movie!!
