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Volunteer Your Computer to Keep Privacy Possible

The good folks over at Wild Bee have an excellent article about how you can use your computer to help the world while you sleep. Lotsa people run SETI@home – I think it is because of the screensaver. Instead of a looking for aliens, you could help political dissidents in repressive regimes, protect anonymous whistleblowers, [...]
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How to snag images that someone doesn’t want you to get in 4 steps.

Sometimes on the web people think that they can deliver images or music to your computer for you to look at or listen to, but somehow keep you from possessing.  They can’t.
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An explosive tale about airport security

I really really dug this post about carrying gunpowder through airport security. You can’t create a secure airport that is worth traveling through.  The solution isn’t to figure out every possible way that people can attack airports and prevent those…  That’s an insolvable problem.  A better way is to find people who are trying to [...]
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How to get around a proxy system

This sounds complicated but it is really simple.  That it is so simple is why the internet is amazing and awesome. Proxies are used by people in positions of authority who want to control what you view on the internet.  Such groups include the governments of Turkey and China.  Also, the internet security team of [...]
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BangoWhatthehell

I am intrigued by this weird advisory on cryptome, keeper of, if not all, then at least exclusively, things you are not supposed to know. There’s no attribution, no explanation, and no other mention of this on the web. The very short gist is: Avoid the treacherous anonymous web browser, bangotango.com. It is harvesting unwary [...]
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