Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Internet, Surveillance, Tor on Mar 10th, 2007 4 Comments »
Articles with headlines such as “Here is how to expose Tor-users” appear regularly in the mainstream press. Most of these articles have nothing to do with Tor itself and everything to do with users who by mistake allow their software to send personal information over the anonymous connection or allow their software to connect to [...]
Posted in Internet, Surveillance, Tor on Mar 7th, 2007 8 Comments »
A paper technical paper released in February by UColorado/Boulder outlines how to attack Tor using a few evil servers. A spokesperson for the Tor-project was quick to respond, saying that they are aware of the problem and that nothing indicates that such an attack has been launched “in the wild” yet.Yesterday “respectable” publication ZDNet repored [...]
Posted in Internet, Surveillance, Tor on Feb 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve used quite some time to read the legal documents and other documents regarding the EFF v. AT&T lawsuit. The suit is a EFF class-action suit against the AT&T because AT&T are helping the NSA spy on US citizens by giving them access to the Internet backbone at various central points.
Now, the interesting thing isn’t [...]
Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Internet, Search Engines, Tor on Jan 16th, 2007 22 Comments »
Many people, including my self, search using the Google scraper Scroogle to get search-results from Google and Yahoo without letting them know that it is actually me who is doing the search-request. You type your keywords into Scroogle, it passes them on to Google or Yahoo, fetches the results, and presents it in a beautifully [...]
Posted in Anonymity Essentials, Internet, Tor on Jan 12th, 2007 No Comments »
The Internet is a place where you can be anonymous, but are not by default. Everything you do on the Internet can be watched - at least by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). But there is a quick and easy way to make sure it is impossible for anyone to monitor what you do on [...]
