Comments on: Surveillence Self Defense

By: jo blogs

jo blogs — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:27:03 +0000

All this firewalling stuff is useless against government intrusion as they have back door access through Windows operating systems. Best thing to do is switch to Linux which is open source and can be verifiably shown to be not riddled with proprietary spyware from the get-go like anything from Microsoft is. Linux is not only far more secure, it’s also free!

By: doogle

doogle — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:22:48 +0000

zerox,

That’s the one. Truecrypt. Hidden volume. Plausible denial strategy. Unbreakable.

By: dr strangelove

dr strangelove — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:41:33 +0000

the RFID chip is basicily a chip that will be placed in your arm….it will carry a bar code which is made up of 3 sets of six digiets…666….this bar code will carry all your lifes info…and when its fully in place all your financial dealings will be done through this chip….and if you dont conform to what they…(the banksters)….ask then they turn your chip off…you will not be able to buy food……..trade….or travel….all thanks to a chip made by IBM…..the same people who used the first computers to help process the jews for the nazi,s………….nothin changes…..it just gets more sinister

By: Obvious Pseudonym

Obvious Pseudonym — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:22:34 +0000

The mackerel needs frying.

By: Adrian Peirson

Adrian Peirson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:33:30 +0000

Unfortunately, Companies like Symantec have been ordered to leave Backdoors in their SW for the Security services.

By: alex b

alex b — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:40:47 +0000

Encrypt it, There is no problem with encryption.
If you want to hide data from the government through encryption you have the right to do that. There is no law that says you cannot encrypt your data and there is no law saying you must “remember” what that password was.

They cant lock you up and throw away the key because you forgot the password to your encrypted drive.

If the government is after you in the first place, they are not there to work with you, they are trying to find evidence to lock you up for a long time. Why help them with that?

Truecrypt is great.

By: JR

JR — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:27:50 +0000

Maybe I’m not up to speed with you guys but on the subject of embedded dial-ups, especially in OEM software, another culprit is Canon. When I’m online and go to print an https page (you often can’t save a secure page as you know), my Canon printer tries to dial-up.

Google Earth along with Realplayer are rated as highly invasive particularly if you are running them on Vista. Google Earth tries to dial-up the moment I boot up, which is annoying if nothing else. So does Skype. The answer is don’t have your modem driver or Internet dial-up in your start-up list.

I use McAfee which alerts me to any unsolicited dial-up by throwing up a window that identifies the exe program attempting to do so and asks for permission. If you don’t consent, it blocks it. McAfee also provides a pretty decent firewall and unlike many, such as Norton, AVG and Trend Micro seems more efficient in that it gets on with the job without producing noticeable drag. I’ve tried them all over the years and McAfee’s the best so far with a straightforward control panel plus other useful tools such as permanent delete.

Zerox, thanks for the tip on Truecrypt.

By: EssVee

EssVee — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:57:29 +0000

If we really were asked as a race to accept to be chipped. what we really do.??
Everything in a chip inside you. Your life. Financial life, criminal life, medical life…….

RFID has been known and covered for years.
But is this really safe.?? Safe from who?? and what.??

I think it’s easier for them..
for them to control.
For them to isolate if every they need to..

By: zerox

zerox — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:07:13 +0000

My advice to anyone wishing to use encryption as protection of their privacy and freedom is this: Get open-source encryption such as Truecrypt. It’s free and the open-source community can check the code that was used to write it. This ensures a good level of defence against a “backdoor” in the software.

Truecrypt allows you to create a “hidden volume” within the “outer volume.” The are both encrypted with different keys; the hidden volume is scrambled in the free space of the outer volume. The outer volume is pre-prepared with convincing files that are of no private worth to you.

It is impossible to prove the existence of the hidden volume without knowing the key. The police cannot imprison you for refusing to reveal it unless you admit it exists. You simply give them the key to the outer volume and let them waste their time sifting through useless data!

By: zerox

zerox — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:57:47 +0000

The Chair is against the wall! John has a long moustache!

By: The Editor

The Editor — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:49:32 +0000

What kind of printer and scanner are we talking about?

Games? You have time for games? If you want some stuff to do, I can make sure you won’t miss the games … ;o)

By: Bubba Jackson

Bubba Jackson — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:33:38 +0000

…ah, it’s Baron, from the David Icke Froum

By: missinterpret

missinterpret — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:07:37 +0000

Ubuntu is great,but I cannot run my printer , scanner or games on it,thats the only downside

By: missinterpret

missinterpret — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:06:10 +0000

not cancelled,just postponed until no-one is watching…………

By: tuxtoo

tuxtoo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:11:18 +0000

So no one likes MS. Use Linux, it just makes life easier .

By: wiggins

wiggins — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:05:32 +0000

Do you really believe he’s cancelled it ? I don’t.
More ‘horlicks’ from Strawman.

By: Baron von Lotsov

Baron von Lotsov — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:50:02 +0000

Victory at last!!!!

Straw has just cancelled a massive Internet spying programme.

Resistance is not futile.

By: wiggins

wiggins — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:06:22 +0000

Now I know why Jesus wept……