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on Sat 01 of Jan., 2005 20:35 EST
A quick list of privacy enhancing tools for Windows and UNIX
Heres a quick list of some useful privacy enhancing tools for windows and UNIX. We'll add these to the Wiki as well shortly.
Privoxy
(Works with Windows, Linux, BSD, MacOS and other OSes)
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
Bugnosis
(Only works with Windows)
"Bugnosis is a Web bug detector. As you surf the Web, it analyzes every page you visit and alerts you when it finds any Web bugs. With Bugnosis, you don’t have to be a code expert to tell when your browsing habits are being observed."
http://www.bugnosis.org/
(cache) (Works only with Internet Explorer)
TOR
(Works with Windows, Linux, BSD, MacOS and other OSes)
"Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and more. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.
"Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security."
Adblock
(All platforms that can run Mozilla or Firefox)
"Adblock is a content filtering plug-in for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker. Adblock allows the user to specify filters, which remove unwanted content based on the source-address. If this sounds complicated, don't worry: it's not. Just add a few filters. Every time a webpage loads, Adblock will intercept and disable the elements matching your filters. See?- nothing to it."
