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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

This had some far-reaching and unintended consequences. In his opening monologue, Carson quipped:  “You know what’s disappearing from the supermarket shelves?  Toilet paper.  There’s an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States.”  By noon the next day, practically every store in America was out of stock.  A few nights later, Johnny Carson explained there was no shortage and he apologized to his viewers. However, this did not help with the scare.  As soon as people noticed the empty shelves, they wanted this paper even more.  It took three weeks to get the shelves stocked again, ending the shortage caused by a joke in Johnny Carson’s monolog.

The difference between 1973 and today is that the run on TP didn’t begin until the next morning.  Facebook, Twitter, social and mass media of all description will make such a mass panic almost instant today.  This may also precipitate an over-reaction by government at every level, which may be more dangerous to the individual citizen or businesses than the supposed threat.  Can you imagine a “War of the Worlds” panic like the one in 1938 acted out in Toronto or Boston with the forces of government turning-out to combat the imaginary menace or panicking populace?  Now replace the Martians with Terrorists and a dirty bomb — can you imagine what either city would look like?

By the way, in November 1944 the War of the Worlds (WOW) play caused a similar panic when it was broadcast in Santiago, Chile, and in February 1949 it once again stirred up unrest when it was performed by a radio station in Quito, Ecuador.  The situation in Ecuador provoked an angry mob to surround the radio station and burn it to the ground.

Ironically, the WOW panic was greatly exaggerated (Miller 1985; Bainbridge 1987; Goode 1992).  For more than sixty years we were misled by the media (for its own gain) into believing that the panic was far more extensive and intense than it actually was and this may in itself cause government to over-react today.

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!