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A Web Site Mysteriously Knows Who I Am & Details About My Last Visit. Scary!
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1835840" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Paul, being anonymous on the 'net is practically impossible. Having a Google account and an Android phone is a double whammy. They know where you are and what you are doing, at least on the phone and your Mac. As for Humana knowing your name, they could have gotten that from Google, from your IP, from a cookie, from almost anywhere. If you have ever given them your name, in any form, to any Humana company or doctor, they can connect the dots. Anonymity is not possible without extreme measures, like going off the grid totally and living in the backwoods, never connecting to the 'net, never doing any banking, no credit cards, no loans, no job, never handle money, pay no taxes, never go where there are surveillance cameras. Basically become a hermit living off the land (and don't buy the land, just squat on it). Of course, that is both uncomfortable and illegal, but that's about the only way not to be known and tracked. </p><p></p><p>How do you protect yourself? Get a password generator, use huge passwords (mine are currently set for 18 random numbers/letters/characters/case, and I'm contemplating moving to 24 of them) and put a super password on the password keeper. That should keep you safer until quantum computers make all of that obsolete. </p><p></p><p>VPNs might help, but some VPN providers track what you are doing on the VPN itself, so that's not a guarantee. </p><p></p><p>Sorry to be so pessimistic, but what you seem to want is simply not reasonable achievable today. That's life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1835840, member: 396914"] Paul, being anonymous on the 'net is practically impossible. Having a Google account and an Android phone is a double whammy. They know where you are and what you are doing, at least on the phone and your Mac. As for Humana knowing your name, they could have gotten that from Google, from your IP, from a cookie, from almost anywhere. If you have ever given them your name, in any form, to any Humana company or doctor, they can connect the dots. Anonymity is not possible without extreme measures, like going off the grid totally and living in the backwoods, never connecting to the 'net, never doing any banking, no credit cards, no loans, no job, never handle money, pay no taxes, never go where there are surveillance cameras. Basically become a hermit living off the land (and don't buy the land, just squat on it). Of course, that is both uncomfortable and illegal, but that's about the only way not to be known and tracked. How do you protect yourself? Get a password generator, use huge passwords (mine are currently set for 18 random numbers/letters/characters/case, and I'm contemplating moving to 24 of them) and put a super password on the password keeper. That should keep you safer until quantum computers make all of that obsolete. VPNs might help, but some VPN providers track what you are doing on the VPN itself, so that's not a guarantee. Sorry to be so pessimistic, but what you seem to want is simply not reasonable achievable today. That's life. [/QUOTE]
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