This is awesome. But I think if there was more historical records (as in it showed more than the last 50 or 60), it'd have more punch for the layman. I suspect a lot of my FB friends, on seeing 30 connections to fqtag.com and some links to an IBM console would think 'so what'? But seeing a link to nastyporn.com (or whatever) that would be viewable without a warrant would be quite the eye opener.
Good idea that's been raised elsewhere. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or motivation to develop storage and retrieval for this.
Instead, I'm going to open up access to, and document, the websockets interface. If you'd like to build something that collects and does cool things with this data, you're welcome to it.
I'll run it until the bill passes (in whatever form) or is killed off in committee or the lords.
Thanks, and oh dear. Somebody was kind enough to email me about this. I've needed to install El Capitan on that box for a while, this seems as good an excuse as any to tear it down and reinstall.
Showing, in real-time, what you are visiting is a much more visceral punch than "telling." I think people forget/whitewash their history, especially the quick diversions away from what they should be doing. I'm already nervous for this stranger about using Facebook and Twitter on "work-mac."
> I'm already nervous for this stranger about using Facebook and Twitter on "work-mac."
This is a kind of hypocrisy we really need to get over as a civilization. Almost every office worker browses Facebook, Twitter, eBay and equivalents for significant amount of work time. Let's just admit it and stop caring about it. Trying to fight it only destroys office morale. Private browsing is often an important part of maintaining a mental hygiene in the workplace.
Two points here. I don't have a Facebook account (probably never will), so I suspect the Facebook hits were mostly from Salon.
On the browsing Twitter stuff, I'm kind of fortunate. Since this hit here and on Boing Boing, I've been following along (and have been pleasantly surprised at how nice the internet is). But, I'm in academia, and this very tangentially counts as "work."
But yes, I also agree, people are doing this, and they'll continue to do so at work. As for how that fits with your model of a productive workplace, YMMV.
I applaud the effort but I think showing this to any non-technical person will have zero useful impact. It's just a list of fairly non-descript URL. It takes several leaps of understanding and/or imagination to understand what can be done with this stuff, aggregated over a few years of someone's life. You don't get that from this list of 50 truncated URLs.
Not sure why you're getting that, but I've been out in the pub all night and haven't been monitoring it. If its still happening, do you mind posting a full trace?
Nicely done sir. I have a similar project called Q2, still unpublished. I would be happy to talk to you about our projects and share ideas. Congratulations, you beat me to the punch!
Not working so well with phones, only desktop machines. I'm being somewhat careful, too.
The "warrantless" information only includes the device and domain name. I can hit a button and start publishing paths too, but I'll always be stripping usernames, passwords, and query strings -- I'm already inviting getting owned enough already.
Methods would be neat, I'll check the Chrome WebNavigation documentation and see what I can do (and try to depict it pictorially to keep it understandable).
As for emails, I've been considering doubling down on this and posting Twitter messages and the emails of my personal accounts, but ethical concerns are leading me to think that's a Bad Idea.
They may already be unlucky enough to have a mobile phone provider who adds stuff like the mobile phone number to their outgoing HTTP headers automatically!
