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Under the Smoke is a student project website designed as a tribute for the poet and author Carl Sandburg. This website uses public domain photographs of early 20th century Chicago in combination with the poetry of Carl Sandburg. The purpose of this website is to educate on a great American poet and the city he wrote of.
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Web Security
This website is committed to ensuring your security and privacy as a visitor to this website. However, not all websites will.
It's important to educate yourself on internet safety. There are an enormous number of ways that a malicious website, email, or program could target you.
For example, here's what this website (which isn't trying to track or analyze your data) can know about your computer and browser:
To see what a website can know about your location (if you let them), click the button below.
This shouldn't be surpising to you, and if it is you should know that much, much worse threats exist. I recommend the following articles to learn more about this topic:
10 Internet Safety Rules, by Kaspersky
A very basic and quick intro to some of the things you should know about web security.
CyberSecurity 101, by ZDNet
A more detailed coverage of important web security tools, covering TOR, VPNs, and other important topics.
Browser Cookies Explained, by privacypolicies.com
A detailed explanation of what cookies are, and how they affect you.
Time Elapsed
Carl Sandburg was born on January 6th, 1878 and died on July 22, 1967.
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