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Aug29
The Illusion of Privacy on the Internet
If you need reminding yet again that what you do on the Internet is not private, check out this blog post.  Jeremiah Grossman has written a script that shows the recent sites you've visited if you are using FireFox as well as the extensions you have loaded.

While Jeremiah is doing this to both showcase his abilities and to make a point, not to collect data, collecting the data is easy enough.  As is identifying your IP address and the date/time.  That information could be used to identify you directly by law enforcement or anyone else that could get a court order for your ISP.

On the plus side, think of the wealth of information you could collect on visitors to your site...

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