[clug-talk] Online Privacy

Dafydd Crosby dcrosby at userful.com
Fri Jun 19 14:16:58 PDT 2009


I think it was Dan Kaminsky who said "Nothing says 'I'm doing something 
illegal' like encrypted traffic"

For real fun (and much less noticeable security), check out 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

-Dafydd

Jesse Kline wrote:
> With news that the federal government is introducing legislation that 
> would make it easier for big brother to spy on Internet users 
> (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/2043242/Proposed-Canadian-Law-Would-Allow-Warrantless-Searches), 
> I'm trying to put together a list of open source software that can be 
> used to thwart this invasion of privacy on the part of the government. 
> So far I've got GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org/) for e-mail/file 
> encryption, as well as Tor (http://www.torproject.org/) for anonymous 
> web surfing. Can the group recommend any other pieces of software that 
> helps preserve privacy on the Internet?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jesse
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