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Does Your Anonymous Proxy Use Trusted Servers and Hops?

June 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Do You Really Expect Your Email To Be Private?

June 7, 2009

World renowned security expert Bruce Schneier doesn’t. Schneier says that between the NSA’s massive internet eavesdropping program and GMail’s content oriented advertising it’s foolish to live under the illusion that your email is private. That’s not to mention your ISP, I have some other posts on that. Schneier continues with comments on laptop data viewing [...]

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ISP’s Cooperating With Government And Copyright Holders to Filter YOUR Internet

May 12, 2009

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 [...]

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Teen Arrested For Making Bomb Threat – Or Did He?

May 12, 2009

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 [...]

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Inappropriate Use Of Computer At Work Leads to Arrest as Hacker

May 12, 2009

Richard Wolf used his work computer to upload inappropriate pictures of himself to inappropriate websites. He was NOT using a secure VPN surfing product like GoTrusted. If he was, he wouldn’t be in jail. Not that we advocate inappropriate use of work computers. But to be arrested for hacking? He was in danger of a [...]

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Google GMail Tracks Your IP Address – Hide Your IP From Google

May 5, 2009

There are many benefits to Google GMail, primarily, it’s free. But many privacy concerned users not only realize that Google is paying close attention to the contents of their email, they wonder how it may be used against them at any time in the future. Does it make you wonder why Google displays the IP [...]

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Bypass Firewall To Access GMail IMAP

April 30, 2009

Today I was setting up Outlook 2003 to access a Google GMail account via IMAP protocol. This requires ports 993 and 465 to be open through any firewall you might be behind, such as at a business or employer. The firewall I was behind did NOT have those ports open and Outlook failed to connect [...]

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Tor is Slow, GoTrusted is FAST Anonymous Surfing

April 15, 2009

Tor is a popular, free, anonymous surfing software. Tor has several problems, though, one of them being speed – or more appropriately, lack of speed. Tor is slow for the exact reason that it works at all. Tor provides anonymous surfing by going from your computer to the destination web address by way of the [...]

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Why Do I Need Anonymous Surfing, I Haven’t Done Anything Wrong?

April 13, 2009

The cliche of  “why do I need anonymous surfing” is “I haven’t done anything wrong”. Here is an often quoted phrase that was apparently true hundreds of years ago and is even more true today: If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang [...]

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Why You Need To Surf Anonymously

April 13, 2009

There are a number of reasons that you need to surf anonymously, and none of them have anything to do with you doing anything wrong. Let’s take a look at where your internet traffic and surfing can be snooped on from: Your employer, if surfing at work Your Internet service provider Your favorite website or [...]

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