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SOPA – Know the Supporters of Both Sides

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So the SOPA bill (AKA H.R 3261) will go for voting on January 24th 2012. The debate and discussions are getting hotter; an increased number of people and organisations raise their voice and mobilize U.S citizens for or against the passing of that bill. I know some of how-to-hide-ip.info readers may wonder why I continue [...]

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When VPN and Proxies Won’t Protect You from SOPA

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This is an article that is hard to write, especially for someone who’s been advising the use of VPN and proxies to anonymize their internet connection. It always hurts when what you’ve been preaching can’t just be the right answer … But anyway, you can’t have a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem, can’t you? But [...]

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70% of Users Are Using a VPN or a Proxy Service (or are Planning to Do So)

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15% of US adults file-sharers are hiding their IP addresses, thereby increasing the demand for VPN and proxy solutions. This is the result of a phone interview that “The American Assembly” recently published. On the other hand, the once called “The Pirate Bay” polled its users about their use of a hide-ip service, and it [...]

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2011- A Year of Privacy Issues on The Internet

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Privacy on the internet has been threatened multiple times during this year 2011. Indeed, at multiple occasions, and from different parts of the world, the internet has been used to spread some information that aren’t necessarily reported on the mainstream media. Social media has made it that citizen media became more and more popular.Combined to [...]

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Do You Know What Packet Sniffing Is? If Not, Then You Should.

I know, I usually talk in layman’s terms when it comes to dealing with network topics. I won’t make an exception on this article. So let’s keep the jargons to the minimum, and, instead, take actual case studies that will help you understand this packet sniffing thing better. Let’s suppose that you are a Windows [...]

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“Stop Online Piracy Act”(SOPA) – What The Heck Is It?

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You have surely heard about this SOPA thing on the news lately. SOPA stands for “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it’s an effort made in the US for fighting against piracy on the internet. You can guess that Hollywood big guys are actively supporting this act. However, this act has generated a lot of outcry [...]

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Using URL Shorting Sites to Hide

Sites like Tinyurl.com and Bitly.com are the new go-to places for Tweeters who do not want long URLs to eat up their limited typing space. However, shortened URLs have another, more deceptive use. They allow spammers and hackers to bypass the old email filters and get into your inbox. Most email anti-spam counteragents were created [...]

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So, You Thought You Are Invisible?

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So, did you really think so? Did you think that only “authorities” and certain agencies could find who you are, what you do, what is your IP, etc… etc… Well, if this is the case I got some really bad news for you – YOU ARE WRONG. In a moment you will get to the [...]

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Smartphone User In The U.S? You May Be Spied

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Ok, this title may be a bit scary, and while this isn’t an attack to Android nor iPhone, the recent news/discovery about a software provided by CarrierIQ that has been preinstalled on millions of  smartphones in the U.S is alarming. While the case actually happen in the U.S, there’s no proof so far that the [...]

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CarrierIQ Keylogger for Smartphones

This has been in the news for last week: it has been reported that there was a program within some Android devices that reports keylogs from mobile phones to the telco company. Want to know more about it: Google for “CarrierIQ keylog”. Anyway, this shows once again that: every popular platform tend to be the [...]

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