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How can this website reidentify me even after deleting all of my browser's history and using a VPN?

The website dropmail.me is able to successfully reidentify me (and offer my last used temp mail addresses via. "Restore access") despite doing the following: Delete all my browsers history which includes cache, cookies, website settings, download…
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Is there an exhaustive list of what Windows logs or can log?

I know that there is the event log, but that's not where it stops. There are logs for MSI executables, device logs, setup and installation, performance logs, and so on. It's probably quite a long list; however, where can I find such an exhaustive…
Tamara Wijsman
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What means do I have to catch a Hacker that cracked in one of my computers?

OS: Windows 7 Enterprise Edition (90 Day Trial Version) I put my computer into a DMZ so that I could host a server for a little while. (Port Forwarding was not working in my version of DD-WRT that I had installed on my router.) After a little while…
Mark Tomlin
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How can I stop sites from being able to tell when they're visible? AKA How do I disable Page Visibility API?

So there's this relatively new facility provided by most browsers called the Page Visibility API, wherein pages can tell when they're actually visible. Lots of sites have taken advantage of this not to reduce load or shut up when they're not being…
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Keeping websites from knowing where I live

This questions is related to issues and practicality, not security. I live in Brazil and, apparently, every single website I visit knows about it. Usually that's okay. But there are quite a few sites that don't make use of that information…
Malabarba
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Accept multiple changes in MS Word

Can I accept all tracked changes in a specific area (where I dragged)? I'm using MS Word 2013 for Windows.
user67275
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How to track mail undetectably?

As far as I have searched, there are many third-party email tracking systems; and many of them are in the form of add-ons for gmail. I have tested two of them, and they work fine when the recipients are using gmail or yahoo web clients. But when…
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Removing all Facebook evidence from a PC

My wife currently accesses her Facebook account from two computers, her PC and my laptop. During the course of her Facebook activities she has gradually accumulated a number of 'link-ins' from various sites so that when either PC visits these sites,…
Alan Harris-Reid
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Tracking my home IP from anywhere on the internet?

I have an ISP that serves semi-permanent IPv4 addresses. They can't promise fixed IP addresses, but unexpected changes are quite rare. This begs me to ask however: what would be the easiest/most reliable way to track my home IP address so I can…
oKtosiTe
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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?

I know I can use Activity Monitor (as well as a slew of 3rd party applications) to monitor the usage of RAM and CPU on my Mac. However, I want to capture a log over an amount of time so that I can compare usage between processes without having to…
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How to track if email was read

I want to track if clients read my emails. I need to track it on a single email level, i.e. not just receiving general statistics such as: 25 users opened the newsletter, but to know that client@mydomain.com has read the email about XYZ I sent…
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Google Analytics Opt Out for mobile devices?

The Google Analytics Opt Out Browser Add-ons are very useful way to shield our browsing from contributing to our clients analytics data. The link does not work for mobile devices. Are there any plugins, extensions, or apps available for iOS and…
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How to remove tracking cookies

I am looking for a tool that will be able to (ideally) proactively block tracking cookies in a browser as I don't really like to see the relevant ad from the sites I visited on other web sites. After a quick search I found that the recommendations…
oleksii
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How do I suppress google tracking when blocking javascript is not enough?

For this case I'm referring specifically to the website: http://www.golem.de/ I'm connecting to this website using Firefox with javascript disabled: about:config > javascript.enabled > no This should block scripts from "googlesyndication.com", which…
king_julien
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How does "Do not track" in Google Chrome work?

I have recently found a do not track checkbox in my chrome options. Nevertheless it is pretty obvious what it is going to do, I have a question regarding how it is going to do this and what is the probability that this checkbox will work. First of…
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