When everyone’s talking about it
The King County Library System asked me to present on cyber safety topics in a very neat program they have (“When everyone’s talking about it..”). I have been giving two separate, but related presentations and both have been well-received by…
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I’m just a Tor exit node! I’m just a Tor exit node!
Never thought I would still see this happening… http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/seattle-police-raid-home-privacy-activists-who-maintain-tor-anonymity-network-node-1552524 I have personally seen warrants served on the wrong address on two occasions. The…
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Barking up the Encryption Tree. You’re doing it wrong.
There always comes a time when an obscure, yet important concept, leaves the technical world and enters the main stream. Recovering deleted files was one of those where we pretty much knew all along not only that it can be done, but that we have…
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What is this thing “privacy” you speak of?
I luckily missed being born into the Internet generation. Facebook creeped me out with the amount of information demanded to create an account. It took me all of 1 minute to create an account, 5 minutes to decide to…
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The best part of writing a book is finishing the book.
I choose the title of my latest book (Hiding Behind the Keyboard) to be provocative, although the book may not completely be what you would expect if you think that it is a manual to hide yourself on the Internet. Being from Syngress, this is technically…
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Libraries and the Tor Browser
A few weeks ago, I was asked by a librarian for my opinion on library patrons using Tor in public libraries. My initial reaction, based upon having done more than a few cybercrime cases, is that Tor in public libraries is a bad idea. How can law…
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Tor is perfect! (except for the user….)
I have been spending so much time with the Tor browser over the past months that I have forgotten just how seamlessly it uses a complex network of global servers, and encryption to provide a near perfect level of online anonymity. The Tor browser is…
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