Feb 22 2009
It’s a secret!
Today I was searching through Today’s blogs and I found a newly created blog. dyingtotellyou.today.com is a blog for secrets. If you want to share something with the world but keep your name a secret that’s the place! The blog has just been created so don’t expect too many secrets yet! After, reading about that blog I decided to do some research on anonymity on the web and found a few web tools that help you stay out of spy range.
The first site I found was Bigstring.com, BigString allows a user to easily send, recall, erase, self-destruct (self-destruct!!) and modify an email after it has been sent. BigString users have unprecedented control over all of their email, whether they choose to send it through the BigString.com website or an email client such as Outlook. BigString gives you the advantages of private email and secure email. The thing that got me was the self-destruct feature which sounds totally cool! Once the messages self-destruct there will be no record of the message on the inbox or server. Works with IM as well. With great power comes great responsibility! remember that!
The second and most scary website is fakenamegenerator.com this site is awesome! Basically it gives a whole you different identity with street address, phone number and worst of all a SS number! Although scary extremely useful! if you want to use a fake identity for signing up on a website. You can choose the country you want to live in and your race. Here are some reasons why you would want to use this site.
Many websites, such message boards, are poorly designed, making it difficult for visitors from foreign countries to sign up for accounts. Using fake information, you can easily fill out the sign up forms and log in to the site.
Use fake information when filling out forms to avoid giving out personal information. (Great reason!, too bad Only American based websites do this, as I live in America so I have no use for this, or do I?)
Generate a false identity to use as your pseudonym on the internet. This allows you to keep your real life and your internet life separate.( sounds reasonable)
Get ideas for names to use for characters in a book or story. ( If I ever write a book i’ll use this website! sounds like a great idea!)
Generated credit cards can be used to test basic client-/server-side validation techniques without accidently processing a real card. (who has time for that? but still good reason)
Generated national identity numbers can be used to test basic client-/server-side validation techniques without risking disclosure of real information. (Passable) If you have questions visit the site’s FAQ’s!
Remember what I had said before! About the whole power thing, uh who cares?
I’ll try to find more anonymisity tools!
