#MozMeet
Bon Voyage towards Internet Privacy
Hosted by
Gauthamraj Elango Mohankumar
Date : 16-02-2014
Venue : CSC Computer Institute , Perundurai
PRIVACY ? What's that ?
... Any Guesses ? ...
Protect our Data on the Internet
FOSS Notes
Need for Privacy
The purpose of the Data Protection is to protect personal data
serves to keep those who process the data responsible in how they handle and process the data
Protect the data from the third party sites
Secure the paswords from the hacker
How to be Secured ?
Lightbeam - - See who tracks us online
about:permissions - Set preferences for every website
about:config - Play with Mozilla code
about:privatebrowsing- No more cookies
Webmaker Tools - Learn How the Web Works
Lightbeam
Lightbeam is a Firefox add-on
It enables you to see the first and third party sites you interact with on the Web
It shows you the relationships between these third parties and the sites you visit
about:permissions
The Permissions Manager gives you easy access to the following
- Store passwords - Set Firefox can store passwords
- Share Location - Set Firefox share your location
- Set Cookies - How long websites can set cookies
- Open Pop-up windows - Allow or block pop-up windows
- Maintain Offline Storage - websites can store information on your computer for use when you are offline
- Fullscreen - Set whether or not websites can be displayed in full screen.
about:config
- It is used to customize the firfox
- we can add,modify and reset the preferences such as Speed up Firefox, Disable antivirus scanning, Open Javascript popups as tabs, Spell checking, etc
about:privatebrowsing
Private browsing can not save the following
- Visited pages
- Form and Search Bar entries
- Passwords
- Download List entries
- Cookies
- Cached Web Content and User Data
X-ray goggles
- It is easy to change the web page what we want
- X-Ray Goggles allow us to understand "what the web is made of" that is building block of web page
- To remix, change and share their favorite webpages
Need help ?
Contact
Gauthamraj Elango - raj@mozraj.com / @GauthRaj
Thank You !