Computer privacy, some tools to use

The drive to kill all privacy in financial dealings and communications is nearing a conclusion. The control freaks are winning, and your privacy is just about gone.

But, if you’re reading this, you already knew that.

Here’s some useful, free cryptography products and privacy tools. I’ll spare you the geek-laden technical details.

PGP
Effortless unbreakable encryption for email. Yes, unbreakable. Trust me. Download it here or here.

Steganography
Steganography hides files inside JPG’s with no visible change to the JPG. If they don’t know it’s encrypted, they can’t try to break it. A good version for Windows is Camera Shy. 

Privacy.Net
Many useful links. Plus a handy email address, me@privacy.net, to use when a website wants your email address and you think they will spam you. Email to this address returns a message saying, in effect, “The person who used this email address thought you might spam them and you did”. 

And for the serious propeller heads and/or paranoids out there;

The CypherPunks Remailer
Say I want to send email to someone with no possibility it can traced back to me. Use a remailer. Remailers forward email from you to other remailers then to the final destination, with different encryption each step.

So, if my message to you gets chained through remailers A, B, C, and D, before going to you, there’s no way remailer D knows about remailer B, much less you or anyone else knowing about me. Again, trust me on this. The cypherpunks have been working on this stuff for at least a decade.

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Twelve killed in Miss World riots

At least 50 people are killed in a northern Nigerian city after thousands of Muslim youths go on the rampage, protesting at the beauty contest.

Many more are also believed to have died, after thousands of Muslim youths rampaged through the suburbs of the city, erecting barricades of burning tyres, setting fire to buildings, and attacking churches.

Protests started after the newspaper ThisDay published an article which said that the Prophet Mohammed would probably have chosen to marry one of the contestants if he had witnessed the beauty pageant, which Nigeria is hosting next month.

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Pod creatures capture Nancy Pelosi

Arianna Huffington’s latest

Was it “Meet the Press” or the Sci-Fi Channel? Watching Nancy Pelosi make her first Sunday morning TV appearance since being elected House Minority Leader, I had to check the cable box twice to make sure.

The woman answering Tim Russert’s questions might have looked like Pelosi but she sounded like a character from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.

What had happened to the Congresswoman from California? Gone was the bold, combative, impassioned, progressive politician we’ve come to know over her 15 years in the House. In her place was a soulless pod person — an empty shell mouthing the kind of pallid, inoffensive, focus group-tested and cringe-inducing platitudes that have driven two-thirds of the American electorate away from politics.

I couldn’t help but wonder: Had Head Pod Terry McAuliffe given her a whiff of some life-sucking spores?

How else to explain, for example, Pelosi’s mealy-mouthed response to the all-important question of war with Iraq. The only member of the Democratic leadership to vote against the president’s use of force resolution, she had been unequivocal in her opposition to the war.

But there she was, just 72 hours after her historic ascendance to her new post, vowing to back the president — even if he decides to unilaterally attack Iraq without U.N. approval. “If our young people are called to duty,” she said, “certainly we’ll support the action of the president.”
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What is it about our system that the minute politicians are given a chance to lead, all they want to do is follow the pack? If the Democrats are really looking for a leader to help them return to power, the position, it seems, is still open.

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Why Chavez took over Caracas police department
President Chavez of Argentina recently nationalized the Caracas police department, he took a lot of static here for doing so. A supposedly anti-democratic move. Well, maybe not.

Imagine, for a moment, that the Washington DC municipal police had repeatedly shot and killed peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators, looted
radio and TV stations, attempted a coup d’etat and terrorized the population… Would the national government then be justified in taking it
away from the rogue forces? That’s what’s happened in Venezuela, and as Main reports, the common people - the majority, the ones that AP, Reuters and the NY Times never allow to be heard - are cheering that it was long overdue.
What the professional simulators have distorted as a repressive act - uniformed guardsmen removing uniformed police chiefs - was in fact a
liberation from a serious repression by uniformed rogue police against civilians. The true facts show how knowingly dishonest the commercial US
correspondents have been with you, kind readers. If we had an honest media, those simulators would have already have been fired.
Via NarcoNews

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