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I was lucky enough to attend the 1st ever Thotcon on Friday. There was a pretty good gathering with talks ranging from GNU Radio Hacking, to Computer Forensic Tool Failures, to Social Engineering (which is usually my personal favorite). One of the talks that really stuck out to me was titled Dr. Evil’s [...]
Tunneling your traffic through SSH
By Chris On March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In General, Information Security, Internet Privacy, Wireless Security
Whenever you are away from home and are using a free or open access internet connection, you are taking many risks that you might not be aware of. For instance, capturing web traffic of users at an open WIFI hotspot is insanely easy to do using aircrack-ng. Furthermore, there are various ways to [...]
Today, there was an Ask Slashdot Story called: “Did We Lose the Privacy War?” In the story, the user was trying to do things like use NoScript and block Google Analytics, disabling third party cookies, and encrypting IM “to keep data-miners at bay”. While I think some [...]
Panopticlick a project sponsored by the EFF to research web browser tracking, without using cookies or the visitor’s IP address. Here is the blog post on the EFF website. More impressive, here is the math behind the algorithm that the EFF is using for this project.
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