Comments on: Advanced online privacy protection

By: KS

KS — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:07:00 +0000

so a question!!

what are the other techniques that the ‘agencies’ use to track suspects?
is everything they do based on traffic analysis or is there a bigger picture out there?
how do they trace money laundering etc?
the russians were the worlds greatest at direction finding in the cold war by triangulating positions within 3′ish seconds….
so i recon there is technology out there that would be similar for internet communications.
the best way to protect your self is know your enemy according to sun tsu.
so what do they use? any one know where to start finding out more?

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Supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:46:21 +0000

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By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:13:25 +0000

My point is that data mining doesn't work to catch potential terrorists. (Bruce Schneier does better than I do at explaining why, so click already.) It works great in other contexts.

By: His Evilness

His Evilness — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:05:42 +0000

(I found this via your link from Google leaping in bed with the spooks.)

Not only does data mining not work,
Careful there. Traffic analysis is a form of data mining, and the whole point of your article is that it works just fine. Mining the content of what people send is probably hopeless on a practical basis, but isn’t theoretically forbidden — and the spooks employ some very clever people.

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Google intelligence cooperation reprise - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:24:02 +0000

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Senate ratifies Europe cybercrime convention - Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:08:00 +0000

[...] Even in the U.S., it seems, you must actively protect your privacy if you intend to keep it. Otherwise, before you know it, you could wind up in a secret prison in Poland or Romania or somewhere else, accused of a crime in a foreign country you’ve never even heard of, that isn’t at all illegal here, with the U.S. helping put you there. Filed under: Politics, Internet, Privacy [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 12 May 2006 01:53:07 +0000

why not use sandbaggie?

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MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 4/24/06 — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:33:22 +0000

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By: meeciteewurkor

meeciteewurkor — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:28:32 +0000

Michael,

The chance that you would be discovered rises the more you use Tor to contact the same sites, so your best bet here is to use the ExcludeNodes torrc directive to blacklist any Tor server on any network owned by your ISP.

How does one know if a Tor server is owned by one’s ISP?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:36:33 +0000

Well, that's easy. You just go look at the list of active exit nodes and see if any are on networks under the control of your ISP.

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Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:30:21 +0000

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By: Steve Topletz

Steve Topletz — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:33:43 +0000

Regarding your suggestion of using different profiles, and setting up Tor, I’ve already developed a simple solution: Torpark. You may have heard of it, if not check it out. It is a mobile pre-configured package for windows that runs the latest Tor, Firefox, Portable Firefox, and many security extension. While this is not a comprehensive solution, it is a great tool for those who are less technically savvy.

Regards,
ST

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:15:50 +0000

CACert gives you free SSL Certs. Though it's not exactly anonymous and secure, I felt it needed to be said. Because paying for SSL Certs is bunk.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:05:23 +0000

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