sci.crypt archive
Re: Anonymity and Identity Protection
Date: Sat Jun 04 2005 - 22:28:38 CEST
> Chrissy Cruiser <doublebreasted@mail.com> wrote:
>What suite of products do you use?
>Look at the categories.
>1) Hiding all online activity from your ISP
>2) Hiding your IP address in email, online, Usenet, etc
>3) Sending encrypted email
>4) No cookies allowed; must keep all hackers out of your PC
>5) Password protection on your PC
>7) Anything I missed?
>To make this more challenging, let's assume that your monthly budget is
>small and that the more freeware and free services, the better, the
>reliability of whatever you choose has to be high. That your PC holds
>information that everyone would want, good guys, bad guys and that everyone
>will try to get at it. They want to find out who you are. Badly. They want
>to steal your data/secrets, thieve your identity, corrupt your machine.
>But you live and post in a fully secured area so your personal safety, and
>that of getting their smarmy hands on your PC, is impossible.
For data protection you can't beat creating encrypted volumns to hold
the data. Further protection is enhanced by disabling the swapfile
before opening an encrypted volumn and until it is closed.
These products generally allow for encrypted mail, or encrypted
documents to attach.
There are a variety of encryption products out there. I'm a bit leery
of using programs from some developer I've never heard of. I'd have to
recommend an open source project, such as TrueCrypt, as it "most
likely" has been reviewed by experts for simple errors that might
compromise the program.
I personally trust only Phil Zimmermann and his (not Network
Associates) versions of PGP. He is an expert in the field who
withstood heated persecution from the US government; pure dude!
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/background/index.html
Not all of these are freeware unfortunately. He has to have an income
and has taken back over in PGP operations.
The newest product is PGP Whole Disk Encryption! This will protect
everything on the encrypted disks! There was mention of an open source
whole disk encryption.
The open source program might be solid. If I really want to know there
are no bugs or backdoors I'd pay for PGP though. I'd rather know that
I have no security than to think I do in error.
Password protection: XP - use 10+ digit passwords on all login
accounts. Use a user account when on the internet or:
such that internet programs do not have administrator privileges when
you are logged on as admin.
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Received on Thu Sep 29 21:40:04 2005