[Nottingham] Safer web browsing...

[asif maqbool]

Ok

you seem to be doing well so far :-)

Here are some more toys for the paranoid :p

http://www.torproject.org/

<http://www.torproject.org/>a firefox plugin called ssl anywhere

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

<https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere>and a project called nevercookie

http://www.securityweek.com/nevercookie-eats-evercookie-new-firefox-plugin

<http://www.securityweek.com/nevercookie-eats-evercookie-new-firefox-plugin>Take
it easy

Asif

On 2 December 2010 16:34, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> There's the now usual warnings about being wary of fraudulent web sites
> hawking Christmas goods and so on...
>
> There's also various bits of news about web browser history being
> tracked for directed Marketing and worse...
>
> (And there's the Phorm-esq deep packet inspection that ain't going to be
> going away even if the details might be hidden...)
>
>
> So what's the best advice for trouble-free web surfing?
>
> Is there any improvement to be had on:
>
> Running Linux,
>
> and
>
> Using Firefox with the add-ons:
>        NoScript
>        Flashblock
>        BetterPrivacy
>
>
> What's the latest sneakiness being perpetrated out there on the big bad
> web?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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> ----------------
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> martin at ml1.co.uk
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Asif

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