-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? > Truecrypt While not Internet related, it does protect your files, is open source, *and* is cross platform.
TOR is not as good as you think it is. There are known attacks against TOR, it is also slow and eats a ton of your bandwidth for mild gain. The problem is political and should be dealt with politically. The next step will be to outlaw the tools to protect our privacy. A technological solution *at best* buys us a little time but does not solve the underlying problem. Actually the real problem is that too few people understand the problem and even fewer care. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko8Ck0ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMWeQCfaymDgoOtwlzxdWmUqpYXbUks NUwAniToATj2hiiLfTYxSLlNXzfBMhL0 =P5Wy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
