 So, I just finished recording a video that got very technical on server-side of stuff and basically talking about a website I recently went to that was a website for children. I was checking out stuff for my kids and I always examine every website I go to and I found that this website was accidentally sharing all the user information so like all these kids that were logging in I could see their their real names their birth dates the last time they logged in their email address that sort of thing. I've contacted that website to let them know hopefully they'll do something about it but I've created this example of a similar thing and this is going to be a quick as non-technical as possible demonstration on things you should do on any website you go to just to learn more but if your children are going to a website definitely so this is pretend I made up these fake comments put them in a database wrote some code to send it so it displays on the web page here and this is similar to what's going on on that real website okay so we see you know user names when the comment came through what the comment was and their avatar right so so not a big deal no no real private information in there the kids can be chatting but just because you're not seeing stuff in the web page doesn't mean that the server isn't sending stuff to your web browser that it shouldn't so this is what we're going to do I'm using Brave which is a chromium based browser so if you're using Chrome chromium Brave or one of the many browsers based on Chrome you can open up the developers tools by usually hitting F12 or control shift I if you don't have an F12 if you have Firefox some other browsers they have them as well it might be a different key but here we're gonna hit F12 and what does is opens up your developers console you'll probably get something like this what you want to do is look for this tab right here that says network also this is on the side here it might be at the bottom of screen but just look for something that says network okay at this point if I refresh the page it shows me everything that's being sent to the web page to my web browser the pictures right here so if I go actually go to the response okay so it's not showing the pictures but these are the links to the pictures the output from the database that's being sent and all the code is being sent now most of this you probably don't care about unless you're trying to get a picture off the web page that you can't which is just one way of doing it but we're gonna do is we're gonna click X HR so that will narrow it down a lot X HR is going to be information important information sent to your to your computer lots times it's from a database so again we're looking at here we see user names we see dates comments and avatars if I click on the comments here you can see here we can check check these little boxes and see what's going on again information being sent from the server user name the date the comment was come the comment which is fine that's all information we see on the page now if we click on this get user data bad which again this is my example code but very similar to what I've seen on a real website come in here I can start clicking on this and when I expand these out you can see I can actually right click on this and say expand recursively it will expand them all out that even though you're on the web page I'm not seeing it I can see it with this user I can see their email address I can see their status as a child I can see the date their account was created I can see their date of birth and their real name again this is made up information this is an example I made but this is something that I've seen on real websites okay and again this is just to try to be as non-technical as possible in a chrome browser hit f12 go to network xhr if nothing's there refresh the page and then just look at it you you don't have to understand every aspect of this but you if you start seeing other people's personal information phone numbers email addresses credit card numbers you need to stop using that site and you need to let them know that's an important thing you need to let them know because they may not know the company that I've contacted it's it's a reputable a reputable company why him have told saying that it's a big company that's been around for years has done lots of stuff good stuff for kids they probably had no clue hopefully my email gets through to somebody who could fix it and again in my previous video where I got more technical it's literally just like a few lines of code they might have to change to fix this it's just like a typo they made that would dump all this information and hopefully they fix it quickly but yeah if you have kids definitely check out the website but also just learn to learn a little bit more about how web pages work I mean it's very clear it says right here username that's the username email address that's email and it has one for each user in this particular case but all websites all websites if you go here xhr and refresh almost every single website I want to say all but almost every single website will have information that's being sent to your web browser not all of it showing up on the screen so you can learn a lot and you might find things that that they don't want you to find that's that they're sending by accident or they need to send but they don't want you to see and it's your web browser you're not doing anything wrong you're not hacking their server this is information they are sending to your computer so check that out again I hope that's 30 seconds to do that oh yeah also you should be able to search through this information so again I open it up by hitting f12 going to network xhr refresh let's see if I can type in okay so then the filter looks at the names of stuff you can also right click this and download the information then look through it in the text editor if you want but yeah oh here we go email there we go so what I did was I clicked over here I hit control f for fine it brought up this little fine bar and then you can start looking for stuff so like if you know your personal information you can type in like yahoo.com and you can start finding where yahoo.com is listed in this stuff now it may not be bad if you're seeing your own email address that that might be fine because it might be displaying that on the web page for you but if you start seeing other people's email addresses and you shouldn't well there you go but that's pretty much it thank you for watching and I hope that you have a great day