If you’re using bittorrent on a campus Internet connection, you’ll want to get a VPN service. There are several reasons why this is the case and starting with the most obvious it’s easy to see why. Traffic Monitoring Many campuses monitor their Internet traffic for P2P downloading. This could at best mean that you cannot […]
Archives for September 2013
Iceland May Be the Best VPN Endpoint
If you’re truly worried about your online privacy, Iceland may be the best endpoint for your conection. Kim Dotcom, who is in the process of launching an encrypted email service and an encrypted messaging application. These offerings were already in development before whistleblower Edward Snowden released information bout the NSA spying programs that rocked the […]
NSA Monitoring Can Track VPNs and Documents
An article in Ars Technica reveals that the NSA can do a lot more than just store people’s metadata for a while. The NSA actually has the capability to passively scan the Internet for computers with vulnerabilities that it knows how to exploit. It can also look for computers that may have already been in […]
(P)2P or not (P)2P – That Is The Question, Does The Government Monitor Or Censor, Find It Here
We’ve put together this list of countries and their status on censoring and regulating the internet. We’ve included a column that describes our understanding of whether or not the government is actively monitoring their citizens, (or any other persons’) activities on the internet. (It must be understood that this column is only an opined conclusion […]
