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IN JULY last year, Orlando Figes, one of the UK's most eminent historians, admitted posting savage critiques of rivals' books on the Amazon website under the pseudonym "Historian" - alongside praise of his own. His eventual confession came only after he had threatened to take legal action against anyone who accused him of the misdeed. Later he blamed his wife for the reviews. Figes's online behaviour is an example of what's known as sock puppetry - pretending to be someone other than who you are for the sake of furthering your own interests. It made for a juicy academic scandal that in the end hurt him more than anyone else, but the consequences of the internet's ability to cloak users' identities aren't always so confined. Vicious cyberbullying has, in extreme cases, driven victims to suicide.
The real you: Say goodbye to online anonymity - science-in-society - 03 November 2011 - New Scientist
For Matthew Alan Sheppard, all of the anxiety, deception, and delusion converged in one moment on a crisp winter weekend in February 2008. From the outside, he hardly seemed like a man prepared to abandon everything. At 42, he’d been happily married for 10 years, with a 7-year-old daughter and a comfortable home in Searcy, Arkansas.
Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear? | Vanish | Wired.com
Seconde phase de l'opération de lutte contre la censure, un barcamp se tiendra à la rentrée afin de permettre à ses participants de parfaire leurs compétences et d'échanger leurs savoir faire. Des invités prestigieux, qui oeuvrent depuis longtemps contre la censure de l'internet viendrons échanger avec les acteurs Tunisien qui ont, sur le terrain, fait de la censure un cheval de bataille sous l'ère de Ben Ali et qui, au vu des récents évènements, reprennent le flambeau afin de faire avancer la liberté d'expression et la démocratie.
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By Xeni Jardin at 12:09 am Friday, Aug 12 South Korea's plan to abandon its "real-name system" for Internet users was reaffirmed after the country's worst online security breach in history. In July, personal data for about 35 million users of the popular South Korean social sites Nate and its subsidiary Cyworld were stolen in a large-scale hacking attack. The Ministry of Public Administration and Security is set to report to ruling party lawmakers about comprehensive measures to protect personal information online, including abolishing the real-name registration system, Yonhap news agency said. The real-name system, introduced in 2007, requires people to use their real names and resident registration numbers when making online postings on websites with more than 100,000 visitors per day
South Korea to abandon “real name” internet policy – Boing Boing
Most Virtual Private Network providers fail to mention that while your connexion is encrypted using a VPN there is a high chance that a DNS leak will occur and your ISP will still be able to see what you are doing over the internet. The problem occurs primarily when routers and computers are set to use automatic DHCP, this can force name lookups to bypass the name server supplied by the active VPN connection and instead use the one supplied by your ISP which allows them to see the websites you visit. After you have done the change, carry out again the DNS leak test mentioned above.
How to stop DNS leakage while using a VPN | Privacy Lover
After being connected to the Tor network, users need to refresh their list of running relays on a regular basis. They send their requests to one out of a few hundred directory mirrors to save bandwidth of the directory authorities. The following graphs show an estimate of recurring Tor users based on the requests seen by a few dozen directory mirrors. Users who cannot connect directly to the Tor network instead connect via bridges, which are non-public relays. The following graphs display an estimate of Tor users via bridges based on the unique IP addresses as seen by a few hundred bridges.
Tor Metrics Portal: Users
Zuckers! Facebook Has Secretly Been Giving User Info to Cops - Technology - GOOD
We've told you before that Facebook treats its users like products . That companies now exist to search for your Facebook account and tell your bosses your secrets. That people are quitting Facebook en masse .
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The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server.
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The Crypto Project is currently in a "transitionary" period. We plan on refocusing, rebuilding, and relaunching very soon. These changes will allow the project to have a more directed impact, and subsequently produce better results, both with the software produced and the services run.VPNs
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Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.Anonymat – Acte 1 : VPN et HADOPI… et vous vous pensez anonymes ? | ☠ Bluetouff's blog
Ce billet est le premier d’une petite série sur le thème de l’anonymat, des VPNs, et par extension, des attaques possibles. Pour un plus grand confort de lecture, ce qui ne devait faire qu’un seul billet va du coup en faire plusieurs, ils auront un caractère plus ou moins technique. Le premier est une (longue) introduction aux bases de l’anonymisation IP… bonne lecture. VPN par ci, VPN, par là, je commence à être blasé d’entendre ce mot utilisé n’importe comment et à toutes les sauces, et surtout d’entendre tellement de contre-vérités sur leurs vertus « anonymisantes ».Anonymat sur le Net L’anonymat sur le Net est quelque chose de bien trop sérieux pour laisser une place au hasard. Dans certain pays, il est le garant de la liberté de certaines personnes (journalistes, opposants politiques…), pour certaines personnes, une erreur et leur vie peut être mise en danger. Dans le premier billet de cette petite série , nous avons fait la différence entre la protection du contenu et du contexte. Nous avons vu que la protection des contenus passait par le chiffrement des données et que la protection du contexte, bien plus complexe, nécessitait un ensemble de mesures adaptées à des problématiques variées et qu’il existait une forte interdépendance entre ces mesures.
Anonymat – Acte 2 : Les solutions d’anonymat tiennent-elles réellement leurs promesses ? | ☠ Bluetouff's blog
Summary Liberté Linux is a secure , reliable, lightweight and easy to use Gentoo-based LiveUSB/SD/CD Linux distribution with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments . Whether you are a privacy advocate, a dissident, or a sleeper agent, you are equally likely to find Liberté Linux useful as a mission-critical communication aid. Liberté promptly installs as a regular directory on a USB/SD key, taking ≈210 MiB of disk space, and not interfering with other files present on the media. Everything is preconfigured — the only user input required during boot is the encrypted volume password.