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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
