In recent years, logging of internet traffic has become big business. Internet service providers keep a keen eye on every step you take by keeping a log of the site you visit. For the ISP’s these logs have commercial value since they, among other things, allow advertisements to be targeted. The privacy implications of this is discussed in the September 2008 edition of the Scientific American.

The goal sologme.org give the ISPs a run for their money by generating completely random logs for them to look at.

So, how does it work??
Sologme.org uses an embedded browser, developed by CodeLifters, to mimic the effect of you clicking a link once every second. The links you visit are generated randomly among approximately 4,300,000,000 possible addresses. Most of the sites you try to visit will therefore not be actual sites, but empty ip-addresses. However, each time you request to visit the site, a log entry will be generated in your ISP’s database.

The code (javascript) generating the random ip’s is shown below

randomnumber1=Math.floor(Math.random()*256)+'.'
randomnumber2=Math.floor(Math.random()*256)+'.'
randomnumber3=Math.floor(Math.random()*256)+'.'
randomnumber4=Math.floor(Math.random()*256)+''
whereTo= 'http://'+randomnumber1+randomnumber2+randomnumber3+randomnumber4
...
document.Address.action = 'navigation.html'+'?'+whereTo;

This loop is repeated, on average, once every second.