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May 16.2008

I am looking for a script to put into a website for someone [B]who must not have any way of it being traced[/B] – let me word it differently –

when you go to this website, view pages, and leave, there must be no way of anyone seeing through history or cache or anything else to see this particular website

no tails, no cache, no history, nothing nadda

why?

because it is to protect the viewer from abusive situations so that they can get help – to reduce the risk of further abusive

I’m doing my part for this charity but I need advice on how to do this.
can anyone point me in the right direction?
cheers

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@felgallMay 16.2008 — If you don't save any cookies from the site then they will not have any saved to the computer.

If they clear the history after they leave then the site will no longer appear in the history because the history will be empty. It is not possible to clear the last page on a site that was visited from the history from the site itself since that would require their visiting another page on the site to clear the last entry in the history by overwriting it.
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@sfmauthorMay 17.2008 — thankyou for taking the time to answer I do appreciate it ?

I don't think that the abused women and men would be thinking too clearly and would be able to clear their history and cookies

if their abusive partner found out they were seeking help it may put them in more danger

it was for this reason that they need to find a way of protecting the abused to allow them to get help without it known

to do this the page would have to not allow cookies to be saved and some how hide the history of the visit.

I searched google yesterday for 4 and half hours there are thousands of "delete your cookies" options but that is on the computer not on the page

we don't want to delet cookies we want to apear to be in "stealth mode" ?

be invisible ? but unlike the invisible man we don't want to leave a trail that is immediately visable ?

I sense they will have to see if they can hire someone to write a stealth mode type of script ?

If you or anyone else has any ideas please suggest away

these are real people who need a hand ?

cheers
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@felgallMay 17.2008 — There isn't a way. The security built into the browser to prevent web sites installing viruses onto your computer also prevents the page from being able to delete itself from the history. You can use JavaScript to overwrite the last history entry with the one for the new page each time the site loads a new page provided that the visitor has JavaScript enabled. If you did that and then used an exit link that took them to Google or somewhere like that and have that overwrite the last entry in the history might work provided that everything ran perfectly but the slightest problem with the processing and it would leave traces in the history. The only entry in the history that a web page has access to overwrite is the one for the current web page.

The other thing is that if someone is at all likely to go checking the history to see where another person might have been visiting then it is also possible for that the person to also install a keylogger onto the computer so as to record everything that is typed into the computer. That would itself be running in stealth mode so that the other person would not be aware that it is there and would provide a lot more information than the history would and there would be no way of detecting that from the web page at all.
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@sfmauthorMay 17.2008 — Thanks for your help

could I just ask another question?

Where could I get such a javascipt?

Again thankyou for your help I will go back to them and let them know what you have said, they did mention a site that does this so will ask for the url perhaps I have to contact them and ask as well (and test for myself that it does what they say it does)

thankyou so much brillant to have some help on this

cheers
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@WebJoelMay 17.2008 — Through a web proxy like 'anonymizer.com', one can go anywhere in the web and 'anonymizer' will eat your cookies and leave no crumbs. There are several 'web proxys' like this, you visit their site and 'surf from' their shore and most sites requires that you accept some cookies, well, anonymizer takes those cookies and shows them to your local computer, letting you enter, etc., but when you leave, it keeps the cookies, leaving you trace-free.

As for a situation of having a keylogger installed: ouch... not sure here but some servers can detect the very-small additional bandwidth being 'sucked up' that a keylogger does but it is up to the host's site security to determine that. Mostly I think it's the KLs that take 'snapshots' of page-views every few seconds... that's a bandwidth drain right there. But the 'passive' ones that merely log most keystrokes, apart from being notoriously incomplete (often skewing words and leaving 'gaps' in recorded text), it might be undetectable for anything other than a local spyware checker that actively seeks this..

A good tool to have is called "eraser", it fixes to your trash bin, but instead of merely releasing deleted files for overwrite (in time), it actually OVERWRITES it with "0"s and "1"s, several or many times. I use this, -it overwrites deleteds and it even has a 'secure move' feature that, if you 'move a file', it overwrites the previous location again, leaving no recoverable trace behind..
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