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Falconet
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Use Peerblock .
----------------------------------------"PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either."  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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Former Member
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* Tor prevents anyone from learning your location or browsing habits. * Tor is for web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote logins, and more. * Tor is free and open source for Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix, and Android Anonymity Online Protect your privacy. Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis. https://www.torproject.org/ To quote myself on an off-topic bit posted in August 2010, run on Linux btw: [ot]I've been testing TOR+Viproxy+Polipo+Vidalia+FireFox Tor Button add-in the past day. Everything continued to work (after learning the hard way to config), except Google now thinks my computer is bot machine wanting me to enter a Captcha on every search and I cant log into the Router LocalHost page with Firefox, but can with Opera. Now I use iXQuick, which IS a quick search engine.[/ot] The TOR button in FF is quite handy to alternate between anonymous and normal. I'll probably go ahead and reinstall the lot as it since will have evolved... then some quirks such as the above Captcha issue stopped me using it. edit: Went ahead and added iXQuick as default search engine. Various flavor available at https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/search/...;cat=all&x=7&y=20 and selected the https version. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 6, 2011 3:16:27 PM] |
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Good thread, very worthwhile.
Not sure about Tor but I have not read the manual so I don't know much about it. When having a go at it, I got this message during installation, "Tor button could not be installed because it is not compatible with FF 4.01". I don't see any changes to the browsers, and there is no Tor button, so I guess it's just not compatible and thus does not work. So Tor sort of installed but doesn't do anything with the FF browser. PS. In Private Browsing was and is in IE8. IE9 is only available to Vista 2007/8 servers and Win7, not Win 2000, XP, or Win 2003. |
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GeraldRube
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Inception
----------------------------------------Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications. Today, it is used every day for a wide variety of purposes by normal people, the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many others. https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en  |
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GeraldRube
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As Firefox Revs Its Engines, a New Browser Is Planned-- http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article...ed.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl
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Former Member
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In a follow on article yesterday, in another mag, the notion of Tor maintaining a fork off FF was shot down, as the Tor Browser as a fork of FF, would have to continuously follow the patching by Mozilla, Tor developers not having the resources to fix newly discovered threats. They're bound to miss something critical or fall behind.
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Former Member
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An on-topic cartoon, set off by ''locationgate''':
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Former Member
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Computer security is really a nightmare for the "average" user, the vast majority of non-geek people. Even for "advanced" users it can be complicated. Security configuration of routers, WiFi, firewalls and dozens of programs and add-ons of those programs, the complexity is increasing on a daily basis.
I use NoScript on FF, along with other add-ons, but there are some sites that don't work unless I allow every script, which I won't do. Some sites have so many scripts that it's difficult to decide the ones to allow. Take www.tomshardware.com as an example. Currently NoScript shows this list: tomshardware.com doubleclick.net tacoda.net bizographics.com scorecardresearch.com viglink.com bestofmedia.com googleadservices.com smartadserver.com google-analytics.com I can't imagine a regular person having to decide which of those options is safe to allow. So he/she probably would allow everything, defeating the purpose of NoScript. The same applies to firewalls. |
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Former Member
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Computer security is really a nightmare for the "average" user, the vast majority of non-geek people. Even for "advanced" users it can be complicated. Security configuration of routers, WiFi, firewalls and dozens of programs and add-ons of those programs, the complexity is increasing on a daily basis. I use NoScript on FF, along with other add-ons, but there are some sites that don't work unless I allow every script, which I won't do. Some sites have so many scripts that it's difficult to decide the ones to allow. Take www.tomshardware.com as an example. Currently NoScript shows this list: tomshardware.com doubleclick.net tacoda.net bizographics.com scorecardresearch.com viglink.com bestofmedia.com googleadservices.com smartadserver.com google-analytics.com I can't imagine a regular person having to decide which of those options is safe to allow. So he/she probably would allow everything, defeating the purpose of NoScript. The same applies to firewalls. NoScript is great, but for me (and many others) it breaks too many sites (particularly when making purchases) and it is too much of a pain to use. I leave it in "allow scripts globally" mode, but it still stops clickjacking and I believe XSS also. I also use Avast's Sandbox feature for FF and IE. |
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