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| Practical Solutions to Anonymity Online |
2006/12/09 |
| Anonymity: A condition in which an individual's true identity is unknown. This would seem to be the answer to an internet user's concerns whether for surfing the web, file sharing or using an unfamiliar computer without leaving ones details behind. As clear as the potential benefits to anonymity are the path to success is not clearly marked. This is not an attempt to cover all the potential avenues to this nirvana, rather give some practical advice; the following discussion will attempt to illustrate the avenues known to work well enough to recommend. |
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| Psiphon against censorship |
2006/11/28 |
| Psiphon users will be able to update blogs and post to sites like Wikipedia. An advantage of the program is that it's much easier to use than other anticensorship programs. |
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| Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor |
2006/11/27 |
| The program, called psiphon (pronounced “SY-fon”), will be released on Dec. 1 in response to growing Internet censorship that is pushing citizens in restrictive countries to pursue more elaborate and sophisticated programs to gain access to Western news sites, blogs and other censored material. |
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| Hacktivismo Releases Torpark |
2006/9/19 |
| Torpark keeps Web surfers’ identities private, can run off a USB stick, and scrubs tracks from host computers and browsers. |
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| Germany: Crackdown on TOR-node Operators |
2006/9/10 |
| The public prosecutor’s office of Konstanz raided computing centres of seven providers in Germany, seizing ten servers because of the proliferation of child pornography. Nothing new, things like that happen all the time, the juicy detail is that some of the servers were merely running a copy of the TOR, a software to anonymize the usage of the internet to protect your privacy. |
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| AllPeers set to launch new "darknet" P2P application |
2006/8/24 |
| Last December, I wrote about a team that was constructing a plugin for Firefox called AllPeers. Claiming that their product would be "The best thing to happen to Firefox... since Firefox," the AllPeers plugin promised to make file sharing between friends easy and efficient. At the same time, supporters of the service proclaimed that it would protect its users from lawsuits from the RIAA and MPAA due to its darknet architecture. |
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| Swedish political party offers commercial darknet access |
2006/8/15 |
| Relakks, a commercial darknet service developed by the Swedish Pirate Party is the latest manifestation of this digital arms race. |
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| LogMeIn Buys Hamachi |
2006/8/8 |
| So the rumors were true! As reported earlier this week by us, P2P based VPN provider, Hamachi has been snapped up by LogMeIn, a Woburn, Mass.-based remote connectivity company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. |
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| Easy file sharing with AllPeers |
2006/6/29 |
| With so many file-sharing applications and Web-based services, why do we keep sending huge files via email and spend time uploading our photos to a third-party service so we can share them with our friends and family? Probably because none of the existing options provides a file-sharing solution that is easy to use, foolproof, and secure. But a new Firefox extension called AllPeers, currently in restricted beta, may change that. |
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| Software ID's illegal Winny files / Detection program to aid organizations in fight to protect copyrights |
2006/6/13 |
| A Japanese software engineer based in California has developed software that can detect personal computers containing files illegally obtained with Winny file-sharing software, it was learned Monday. |
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| Anonymous p2p |
2006/5/29 |
| In response to crackdowns on copyright infringement from the industry cartels (RIAA, MPAA, IDSA/ESA, BSA), many developers are moving towards building file sharing applications with the promise of anonymity for their users. |
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| Winny now running on more than 500,000 PCs |
2006/5/29 |
| The number of personal computers running Winny has doubled to more than 500,000 in the past two years, according to a survey conducted by Net Agent Co., a network security company. |
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| The Eternal Value of Privacy |
2006/5/18 |
| The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" |
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