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Freedom Box: A Computer Built From The Ground Up With Privacy In Mind

Privacy-Respecting Services / September 20, 2012 / Leave a Comment

The FreedomBox is basically a router loaded up with privacy-ensuring software. Once plugged into your home network, it will “protect your security, your privacy and your anonymity while you use the internet,” according to James Vasile, the executive director of the FreedomBox Foundation, the nonprofit which was formed to develop the technology using more than […]

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The Best Anonymous VPNs That Do Not Track You

Privacy-Respecting Services, VPNs / September 17, 2012 / 13 Comments

A VPN or “virtual private network” is the easiest way to make your internet activities private. If you want to browse the web privately or share files privately, a VPN will encrypt and redirect your internet connections. This means all the data leaving your computer is encrypted, making it very difficult for hackers or eavesdroppers

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How to Buy Things Anonymously Using A Credit Card

How To Guides / September 17, 2012 / 32 Comments

The paid service Blur allows you to create disposable credit cards (U.S. only) Similar to Blur, Privacy.Com allows you to create disposable credit cards (U.S. only) Using Bitcoins is another good option — however be aware that Bitcoin transactions are only quasi-anonymous. Blur: Create Masked Emails, Phone Numbers, Credit Cards Blur is a service run

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Mesh Networking — A Better Internet Architecture

Privacy-Respecting Services / September 17, 2012 / 1 Comment

A Mesh Network (or Meshnet) is a type of network architecture where each computer is connected to neighboring computers, usually via Wi-Fi. Mesh Networks have a self-healing capability — they continue to work even if participating computers drop out. As a result, the network is typically quite reliable and cannot be easily shut down, as there is often more than one

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Collaborative Cosumption May Change Our Economy

News / September 10, 2012 / Leave a Comment

Collaborative Consumption is a phenomenon that grow to become highly important sector of our economy. Collaborative consumption is an economic model where products are shared or rented instead of owned. This model may become pervasive enough to replace the ownership-based model we have today. For good introduction to this movement, see the video above. It’s

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The Best VPNs For Australia

VPNs / April 17, 2010 / 13 Comments

When choosing a VPN for Australia, the best idea is to look for a VPN with fast connection to Singapore or the U.S. West Coast. If you connect to a server in Singapore you will avoid the Five Eye countries, and you’ll tend to get reasonably fast connection speeds to the US.

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