inumbr provides phone number that you can use to forward calls to any other phone in the U.S.. If you are in Canada forward to a MajicJack.com number for a U.S. location. No one will be able to trace you with this number. This company also offers some useful call management features than can help locate callers.
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ChangeIP, states that its Private Proxy is an encrypted change IP proxy that not only changes your IP address, but also encrypts your Internet browsing sessions to keep you safe and protected.
Perhaps this is better than Zerobank, but perhaps not, I have not tried it yet. It may offer some utility over TOR in that it may allow viewing YouTube and similar video content, but I doubt it will offer the anonymity of TOR.
In a previous article, I wrote about a system that created a single point of failure. In a strategic sense, computers and IT as a whole have become a single point of failure in both government and industry.
Chinese military leaders call automation the great equalizer, since its enemies heavily depend upon computers. An effective attack upon their enemy’s IT infrastructure provides an immediate and disproportionate impact which is the core concept of asymmetric warfare.
This asymmetry benefits the attacker, regardless of his motives or methods.
Android handsets ‘leak’ personal data
Many applications installed on Android phones interact with Google services by asking for an authentication token …
Sometimes, found the researchers, these tokens are sent in plain text over wireless networks. This makes the tokens easy to spot…
Armed with the token, criminals would be able to pose as a particular user and get at their personal information.
Even worse, found the researchers, tokens are not bound to particular phones or time of use so they can be used to impersonate a handset almost anywhere.
Now what might an unscrupulous person do with this? Might one be able to observe a person using his Android phone, capture the token, then use it to find-out more about the person?
Big String offers self-destructing IMs and emails so that you won’t leave any evidence of their online communications. It works with many popular IM clients.
10 Minute Mail gives you an email address that is good for 10 minutes, then expires. This allows you to register with sites that require an email validation. Using this helps you to cover your tracks when using such sites.
8 Online Audio Pronunciation Guides That Help You Speak Words Correctly
Mispronouncing foreign or unusual English words during a presentation or during court testimony immediately signals that you are not an expert in the subject you are discussing. These sites will help you pronounce both English and foreign words better.
A Wired How-to Wiki article, Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet offers an excellent insight to your options should government turnoff the Internet.
The recent PC World article: Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down Does your government have an Internet kill-switch? Read our guide to Guerrilla Networking and be prepared for when the lines get cut, shows that the situation in Egypt has spurred geeks everywhere to start building Appocalypse apps that may be headed our way to deal with similar situations in the future.
The Open Mesh web site content is heavy going but useful if you have the technical knowledge.
The writers for Johnny Carson heard that the U.S government was having a hard time getting bids for the supply toilet paper and that it might be possible that in a few months the United States could face a shortage of toilet tissue. They took the words of a Wisconsin congressman who said this, Harold Froehlich, and decided to add a joke for Carson for the next evening show.
This had some far-reaching and unintended consequences. Continue reading ‘The Toilet Paper Shortage of 1973′
This Message Will Self-Destruct offers the ability to send an encrypted email-like message to another person either with or without a password. As a reassurance that your message is secure, it’s never stored with TMWSD. The optional password salts the encryption key for even more security.
Once you have entered your message and clicked on SAVE THIS MESSAGE, you will be given a URL to pass on to the recipient. When the intended recipient reads your message (with or without the password you may have given them) the encrypted message is deleted forever. If you lose the password your message is also lost!
Concealing one’s activities on the Web is something every Investigator should understand. You should understand this for your own use and to understand how these techniques may deny you needed information. Yet using these techniques may also target you as an undesirable in some circumstances.
The following are methods used to obscure Internet traffic and avoid IP blacklists and content filters.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. (Psa 91:6)
I don’t think they were talking about Communication Security (COMSEC) when they wrote that Psalm, but good COMSEC helps avoid terrors that come in the night.
Zfone for VOIP
Zfone appears to be the lowest cost solution for robust VOIP encryption that you control.
Skype
Calls made over Skype are encrypted by 256-bit long Skype encryption keys are a length that at least in theory, would take a literal eternity to crack. But you don’t have control over the encryption, Skype does.
Oldstyle COMSEC
To avoid an electronic trail, hard copy letters that are distributed via snail mail in a circular rotation might work– these are known as circular letters. Each letter is given a number, and each addenda that is added is given a letter. Subsequent letters can reference the content of earlier ones, for example, “as mentioned in Letter 2-A”, etc., etc..
This can be modified to include an emailed file that is encrypted and the message sending it digitally signed by each person. Using nearly anonymous email accounts accessed through TOR would make this very secure.
The four-ounce, $30USD, Boogie Board runs on a watch battery and mimics the feel of putting pen to paper. To erase, simply press a button. It is a 8.75 x 5.5 inch thin plastic slate that has the same functionality as the Magic Slate (it doesn’t store what you write) except that it uses LCD technology. However, the battery that powers the Boogie Board is not replaceable. Once it’s depleted, the board is useless. According to the Boogie Board site, that’s around 50,000 erase cycles.
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I won’t tell you why I’ve been so interested in the Magic Slate, 18th Century PDA, or this gadget, but I’m sure you might be able to imagine some uses for them.
If Moleskines are a throwback to a time before PDA’s, then 18th century version of the PDA is the pocket notebook made of sturdy brass stock with 4 old ivory pages and a pencil can be written on with pencil, smudged off with your finger, and used over and over again. It closes into a 1-1/8 inches by 4-1/2 inches by 3/16 inch thick package. It seems like an 18th century version of the Magic Slate.
American journalists meeting with Soviet dissidents in Russia used Magic Slates as a way of communicating without being overheard by bugging devices. Low cost, low tech, and effective — what more can you ask for?