Please do at least two from each group

  1. Basic Web Tricks
    1. Set up a personal Web page and post the URL to the class list
    2. Download and play MP3 files
    3. Use Napster and Gnutella
    4. Configure your browser to warn you before accepting cookies
    5. Look the something up on Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, DejaNews UseNet Interface and Google
  2. Privacy: Yours
    1. Browse anonymously, using the Anonymizer
    2. Look yourself up at http://www.anywho.com , then click on "maps" and on your address
    3. Look yourself up at http://www.anybirthday.com
    4. Visit http://www.privacy.net/analyze
  3. Privacy: Other People's
    1. See who's registered a domain name that's already taken
    2. Trace a spammer (or trace the path of any other e-mail sent to you)
    3. Be a voyeur at http://voyeur.mckinley.com/cgi-bin/voyeur.cgi
    4. Look up someone you know at http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=simage
  4. Commerce
    1. Browse eBay and (locate and) read its User Agreement and Privacy Policy
    2. Buy a book or compact disk online and (locate and) read the site's User Agreement and Privacy Policy
    3. Surf stock message boards at Silicon Investor, Raging Bull, or Yahoo
    4. Use a price-comparison service to find the lowest online price for a 64MB Compact Flash Memory Card

    OPTIONAL

     
  5. Advanced Web Tricks
    1. Play internet radio stations from shoutcast
    2. Find and review your browser's cache and cookie files
    3. Privacy: Install PGP from http://www.pgp.com
    4. Install an ad and cookie blocker e.g. Ad Subtract
    5. Install a free firewall
  6. Extra Advanced Web Trick
    1. Try to locate a privacy policy posted on any .edu site for a US institution

Thanks to Prof. Walter Effross, who compiled the list from which this is adapted

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