The US government just love spying on people, but let’s face it, without them we wouldn’t have all those brilliant cold war thrillers to watch over the holidays.  Nobody is safe from the US government’s prying eyes either as even Santa Claus is tracked each and every year by the Pentagon’s North American Aerospace Defence [...]

Categories: Cool

Most websites have tracking system installed. Some internal to analyze and create visitor statistics and many external by embedding advertisement and external website tracking tools in the code. Many users are not aware of these trackers and even fewer know what the individual trackers do and do not do. That’s where Tracker Watcher comes into [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

We had to check the date on the story that was posted on Techcrunch this morning which basically stated that Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X bought The Piratebay for 60 million Swedish crowns. It is rare that websites like The Piratebay get bought off, they usually cease to exist either by legal pressure [...]

Categories: P2p

Fake torrents are spread into the system by organizations for two reasons. The first and in my opinion dominant one is to unsettle the torrent users by lowering the rate of successful downloads. Nothing is more discouraging than downloading the latest blockbuster for days only to see that you downloaded only garbarge in that time. In addition to this the trackers that spread the fake torrents are recording every bit of information they can get their hands on.

Categories: Knowledge