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Tor (anonymity network)

Tor (anonymity network)
Tor (previously an acronym for The Onion Router)[4] is free software for enabling online anonymity and censorship resistance. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than five thousand relays[5] to conceal a user's location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms", back to the user[6] and is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored. An extract of a Top Secret appraisal by the NSA characterized Tor as "the King of high secure, low latency Internet anonymity" with "no contenders for the throne in waiting".[7] Alice's Tor client picks a random path to destination server Steven J.

Tor Browser Bundle Tor Network[edit] Tor works by routing Internet traffic through several "onion" servers, obscuring the originating address. This naturally provides anonymity for other Internet programs that are configured to connect to it on the system, or even network. Applications can be directed to the Tor network through a SOCKS proxy at localhost on port 9050 as well as a HTTP proxy at localhost on port 8118. Reading the Tor documentation is highly recommended to prevent configuration mistakes that could compromise the user's anonymity. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Official website

Remove Skype Chat History for Single Contact Introduction I wanted to clear the Skype chat history for a single user, but Skype only allows you to clear the complete chat history, not a single user's contact history. I searched for 3rd party tools on the net but nothing worked for me on Windows 7 / Skype 4.1 At the beginning, I knew nothing about how Skype stored chat history and just entered my username and password to login and chat with friends. After spending a few hours asking Google many questions, I found that Skype was using the following SQLite database to store its messages. System Drive:\<Current User’s application data folder>/Skype/<Skype username>/main.db I tried to read it with SQLitespy, but it was a pain to find and clear messages each time. Using the Code First of all, I had to find a method to deal with an SQLite database file using C#. Reference System.Data.SQLite.dll (Located in C:\Program Files\SQLite.NET\bin\System.Data.SQLite.dll) to allow C# to deal with the SQLite database file.

OpenNet Initiative The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) is a joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations. The project employs a number of technical means, as well as an international network of investigators, to determine the extent and nature of government-run internet filtering programs. Participating academic institutions include the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School; the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at University of Oxford; and, The SecDev Group, which took over from the Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme, University of Cambridge. Methods[edit] ONI uses several methods to test and document internet censorship in a country. ONI Principal Investigators[edit] The ONI principal investigators are:[1] Major Accomplishments[edit] ONI Asia[edit] Psiphon[edit] Censorship research reports[edit] Books[edit] See also[edit]

Wiki / Jobs You can select what type of results 80legs generates for you. Available options are: Unique and total count - 80legs outputs the # of unique matches and total # of matches for your content selection strings (i.e., keywords or regular expressions)Boolean array - 80legs outputs the two numbers above plus a 1 or 0 for each string, depending on whether or not that string was foundCount array - 80legs outputs the unique and total count plus the total count for each stringCode results - If you select to analyze content using code, result type will default to this option Here are some examples of each result type. The contents of the first page are 'test1 test1 test2 test3 test5'. test test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 For 'Unique and total count' the output will be: For 'Boolean array' the output will be:

Libertarianism Traditionally, libertarianism was a term for a form of left-wing politics; such left-libertarian ideologies seek to abolish capitalism and private ownership of the means of production, or else to restrict their purview or effects, in favor of common or cooperative ownership and management, viewing private property as a barrier to freedom and liberty.[6][7][8][9] In the United States, modern right-libertarian ideologies, such as minarchism and anarcho-capitalism, co-opted the term in the mid-20th century to instead advocate laissez-faire capitalism and strong private property rights, such as in land, infrastructure, and natural resources.[10][11][12] Etymology[edit] The 17 August 1860 edition of Le Libertaire: Journal du Mouvement Social, a libertarian communist publication in New York In the mid-1890s, Sébastien Faure began publishing a new Le Libertaire while France's Third Republic enacted the lois scélérates ("villainous laws"), which banned anarchist publications in France.

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British[1] blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.[2][3][4] Life and career[edit] Doctorow, a member of the Open Rights Group's Advisory Council speaks about how he got involved in digital rights. Doctorow later relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for four years,[2] helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006. Other work and fellowships[edit] He served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999. Fiction[edit] Awards[edit]

Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com » News Free Haven From their webpage: The Free Haven Project aims to deploy a system for distributed, anonymous, persistent data storage which is robust against attempts by powerful adversaries to find and destroy any stored data. Crypto-anarchism Described by Vernor Vinge, crypto-anarchy is more specifically anarcho-capitalist, employing cryptography to enable individuals to make consensual economic arrangements and to transcend national boundaries. Etymology[edit] The "crypto" in crypto-anarchism should not be confused with the use of the prefix "crypto-" to indicate an ideology or system with an intentionally concealed or obfuscated "true nature". For example, some would use the term "crypto-fascist" to describe an individual or organization that holds fascist views and subscribes to fascist doctrine but conceals their agenda so long as these doctrines remain socially unacceptable. Motives[edit] Also, the technical challenge in developing these cryptographic systems is tremendous, which interests some programmers into joining the projects. Cryptography and law[edit] Plausible deniability[edit] Crypto-anarchism relies heavily on plausible deniability to avoid censorship. Anonymous trading[edit] Ukash is an e-money network.

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