When it rains it pours. I recently found my dream solution for Anonymous Web Surfing and then my friend Peter Grandich had this video on his blog. (The secure tunnel I’m using is a product of GoTrusted.)
Now I’m not ordinarily aligned with the ACLU on much; unfortunately that has changed since 9/11.
The video pretty much says it all. But if that wasn’t enough, Bruce Schneier had more privacy eroding news in his monthly newsletter this month too.
For instance, do you think pressing *67 before making a phone call will hide your caller ID? Not if it’s going to an 800 number (because they pay for the call they get to know). There are many services that easily allow you to forward your calls to an 800 number of yours and voila’ – there’s the caller ID. Now a service allows you to program that in automatically.
(The same company offers a fee service that will offer up a phony caller ID to protect you.)
Anonymous Web Surfing not only protects your information when surfing over open WiFi (airport, cafe, school, etc) but also hides your real IP address (which can tell approximately where you are located) and the content of your surfing.
My previous post covers more advantages of a service such as this and why I do NOT use Tor.
Past is prologue; start today protecting the amount of data you “litter” for others to capture, store forever, and maybe use against you.
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Surfing is one of my favorite sports eventhough i got a bad accident last year because of very high surfs.-*.
Surfing is really the best sport out there, i love the adrenaline rush when surfing on big waves.;::
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