Monthly Archives: August 2011

What Kind of Informations Are Available to Other Users Over a WI-FI connection?

On a previous article, I highly recommended how-to-hide-ip readers using a VPN when connecting through a VPN, and it’s not because I was selling any VPN solution to you, but because you are actually risking to lose a lot of your privacy by not doing so. So in case you’re still hesitating, let’s show on [...]

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PS3 Proxy Server Configuration

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Did you know that Sony can track your location using your PS3 console while connected to the Internet? What can you do to counter this intrusion of privacy? While it is not possible to connect your PS3 directly to a VPN service, it is however possible to setup and configure a proxy service to work. [...]

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Connecting Over a Public WI-FI: Consider Using a VPN

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We nowadays take for granted using a public Wi-fi to browse the internet, check our e-mails or do other private-related internet transactions. Most of the time, the only thing that matter to us is getting the credentials for accessing the internet. I once visited one friend of mine who’s working in an ICT shopping mall. [...]

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IP Address Management

What is involved in IP address management? In simple terms, this involves the maintenance of all the network information with regard to network IP addresses. A network administrator will need to do this in order to find out the amount of free address space he has, what subnets are in use, how large the subnets [...]

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VPN Protocols – IPSec

I agree that reading too much about VPN Protocols might be boring at times but sometimes you got to plunge into the boring details of a technology in order to understand that technology better. I promise to stay away from such boring topics once I am done with this series on VPN Protocols, but for [...]

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VPN Protocols – Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol

As promised, let me continue with my venture with VPN protocols. You will get to read a lot about different free VPN services around the Internet but hardly will people tell you how these VPN services function. It is when you understand the technicalities hidden behind these VPN services, that you are able to chose [...]

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Geolocation by IP Address

Did you know that geolocation and other geographic location services use your IP address, Wi-Fi connection and GPS coordinates to determine where you are located? That’s right, in our present world where questions like “What is on your mind?” or “What are you doing?” are already getting old, the next big wave, even in social [...]

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Stay Away From Firefox If You Like Cocoon [Update from Cocoon Support]

This is a quick update for the Firefox users who love to use Cocoon in order to hide their originating IP address. Mozilla recently launched version six of their Firefox web browser with all the hoopla attached around it. Well, I am not against Mozilla and neither am I asking people to stay away from [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part II

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On the first  part of this serie of articles with regard to censorship on the internet, we addressed how limitation can be done on your computer and at the corporate or ISP level. Let’s see on this second part how this censorship can be done at the country-level side. We all have heard countries who [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part I

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Last March, the buzz around the internet was that China is blocking access to some external sites, but since some clever users have figured out to using a VPN to overcome the issue, the Chinese government also begun to block some VPN implementations (PPTP and L2TP based VPN). Let’s take a simple look at how [...]

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