Monthly Archives: May 2010

Video: The End of Privacy

Today I found an excellent reporting on CNN about the Internet and Privacy. Even though is more than 6 months old, the subject is more actual than ever. Take a look!

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Hotspot Shield Connection Problems? Try this!

Hotspot Shield, probably the most popular free hide IP solution, is very easy to install and to use, but sometimes can’t connect due to unknown reasons. Here is a small tip, proposed by Patrick Soon, that may solve the problem: 1. Install HotSpot Shield 2. When it has finished installing it will try to open the [...]

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Scroogle Search Anonymizer Up and Running Again

Scroogle, a Google search proxy that prevents the searcher’s data being stored by Google, is running again after a code change briefly knocked it down. Many privacy activists consider that connecting IP addresses with search queries poses privacy and security concerns. The only thing Google does to protect the search privacy is that they anonymize the last octet of the [...]

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SmartHide Offer Free Accounts for Pakistani Citizens to Access Facebook

Facebook block

A court in Pakistan has ordered the authorities temporarily to block the Facebook social networking site, according to BBC News. The order came when a petition was filed after the site held a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The page in question contains caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and characters from other religions, [...]

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Google to offer encrypted search starting this week

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Google announced last week in its blog post on the Street View issue that they will start offering encrypted search. So far it is not clear how the encrypted search feature would work. “Earlier this year, we encrypted Gmail for all our users, and next week we will start offering an encrypted version of Google Search,” Google said. Google [...]

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How to Watch BBC iPlayer, Demand Five, ITV Player and News 25 Outside UK Without a VPN

The most used method to get access to UK restricted websites like BBC iPlayer or ITV is by using VPN services. If you can not afford to get a VPN account here is some good news: WebTvUnleashed has build a Tor package that will get the jod done nicely. And it is completely free. The idea [...]

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Video: Hide Your IP Address with Proxies

I have posted several times on this blog about proxies. They are simple to setup and most of the time effective. Their problem is the speed and the security provided. The fact that you don’t know who is behind the proxy you use should worry you a little bit. So, my advice is to use [...]

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List of VPN Services that Provide USA IP Addresses

VPN service

If you would like to have an IP address in the US, for example if you want to access Hulu, Pandora, or other restricted websites then you need a VPN service that provides US IP addresses.

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SwitchVPN Unmetered USA VPN – 30 1-Month Accounts Giveaway

SwitchVPN

SwitchVPN is a new VPN service that users to surf the Web invisibly and securely under the cover of a USA server. All the programs installed on your computer are automatically redirected to the VPN so that a highest level of security and anonymity is provided. With SwitchVPN, as well as with other US VPN services, you can: Access sites that are restricted [...]

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