Many people have asked me about using SwitchProxy FireFox Add-on for anonymous surfing.
SwitchProxy tool lets you control and switch between several proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your Personal computer from snooping eyes.
The problem with any proxy is two-fold.
First, you have to have a proxy server [...]
Staying at a hotel almost everyone uses free WiFi or cabled internet these days. But did you realize that you are then on an internal private network with a lot of other people you don’t know?
Do you realize that hotel IT staff can watch every bit of data that goes to and from your PC [...]
In the latest installment of governments forcing ISP’s to become copyright cops, Australian legislators are proposing legislation to require Internet Service Providers in Australia to monitor all user downloads.
This is in effect intercepting and censoring paying users’ internet communications all for the benefit of the entertainment industry.
Once all of the mechanisms are in place [...]
A federal jury in Boston ordered a Boston University grad student to pay $675,000 in fines to 4 record labels for illegally sharing songs and NOT using GoTrusted Secure VPN Tunnel service.
Ok, I’m reaching a bit here, and I am NOT condoning illegal activity of any kind.
The point is, though, had Joel Tenebaum been using [...]
Do you use unprotected WiFi access to transmit medical information that falls under HIPAA guidelines? If so, you could be setting yourself up for fines and litigation. GoTrusted Secure VPN Tunnel service can protect you against those fines and court time for pennies per day.
Open WiFi, the kind you find at airports, Starbucks, hotels and [...]
There are a great number of anonymous proxy servers and anonymous VPN tunnels out there for use to hide your ip address.
Whether you do so for ordinary privacy concerns or so you can download music and movies is not the issue.
What is the issue is why you do so. Because you don’t trust people.
Then why [...]
The lead article in a high profile Windows e-Letter this week is “ISPs assist in cutting off file-sharing users”.
Essentially, ISPs are logging your internet traffic and in some cases reporting where you go and what you download to governments, advertisers, and copyright holders. The goal for the copyright holders is to stop file sharing of [...]
An Oxford, NC 16 year old boy was handcuffed and taken from his home after nine armed FBI agents (are there any other kind?) joined by three local law enforcement officials stormed his family’s home around 10pm (usually at night, the black ninja outfits just don’t blend in during daylight) on March 5, 2009.
The government [...]