Anonymizer, The - Browse the Web through Anonymizer.com's premium or free service using an intermediary to prevent unauthorized parties from gathering your personal information.
Be Hidden.us - BeHidden is effective at providing protection against Network-Monitoring tools and cache-file privacy breaches. With BeHidden you can assure the privacy of your online activity by becoming masked and anonymous. With other software-privacy tools that only remove cookies and cache files, your employer can still monitor what passes across their Internet pipe, very easily with employee-monitoring software. BeHidden encrypts what is transmitted online to ensure your employer keeps his prying eyes out of your affairs. This site also lists privacy resources, privacy threats and software to help detect keylogging client-based software that may be installed on your work or home computer.
Collusion - An experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. Downoad here.
CypherNet - Pointers to information and tools necessary to ensure personal privacy. Many of these resources fall into legal gray areas, that is, their use has not been clearly regulated. Links on these issues within the U.S. and abroad can be found throughout this site and information and tools are provided in the following areas: Encryption, Anonymity, Security, Digital Cash, and Legal Issues.
EPIC Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools - Links to software available on Internet to improve privacy. Snoop proof email, anonymous remailing, surf anonymously, HTML fiter, cookie busters, voice privacy, email and file privacy, web encryption, telnet encryption, disk encrytion, disk/file erasing, privacy policy generators, passwaord generators, PC firewalls and more.
NoScript - Security for your web browser. Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
NumberInvestigator -
Reverse phone resource. Provides free information about hundreds of millions of landline and cell phone numbers in the United States and Canada. This information includes approximate location, city the phone number belongs to, and phone carrier information. Its comprehensive database also includes reports on thousands of numbers used by telemarketers, scammers, debt collectors and other annoying callers.
Report system allows you, the user, to report telemarketers, scammers, fraudsters, debt collectors and other annoying callers in an effort to build a global database of calls which you don't want to pick up.
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) - MIT Distribution Center for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Site also provides links to extensive archives of PGP information.
Privacy.net - Privacy.net provides information and tips about Privacy. Read about credit reports, identity theft, Internet privacy and more.
privacyscore - Estimates the privacy risk of using a website based on how they handle your personal and tracking data. Also see FAQ.
Psiphon -
Content delivery technology that delivers the net allowing: 1) Individuals to securely access multimedia Internet content anywhere, and anytime. and 2) Media producers, corporations, community groups and individuals to reach their audiences.
Public Proxy Servers - A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the Internet resources you are accessing. Anonymous proxy servers hide your IP address and thereby prevent your from unauthorized access to your computer through the Internet. They do not provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information about you and your reading interests.
SecureSoft USA - Internet security and computer network security, including firewalls, VPN, intrusion detection and virtual private network security systems and solutions.
SWIPE Toolkit - A collection of web-based tools that sheds light on personal data collection and usage practices in the United States. The tools demonstrate the value of personal information on the open market and enable people to access information encoded on a driver's license or stored in some of the many commercial data warehouses.
Tor - An anonymous Internet communication system. Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.
Tor Project Blog - Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications. Today, it is used every day for a wide variety of purposes by normal people, the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many others.
Wetstone Technologies - A developer of internet security, protection, and communication products: Stego Watch, Time Check, Time Lock, DETS, Net Witness, Seeing Stone, SMART Watch.
Zero-Knowledge Systems - Provides tools and strategies for protecting individual privacy for the Web, email, chat, and newsgroups.
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