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FW: Privacy and the Internet : A Primer (Usenet,PGP,Cookies)
Hi everyone,
I'm sort of new to the list. Been lurking now for a few weeks and enjoying
the discussions. I'll officially uncloak real soon and intro myself, but for
now I thought the following information might be of interest. Penney Kome,
the author, gave me permission to pass it on to this list.
Cheers,
Lynn
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Using the Internet for Women's Activism
> > [mailto:WOMENSPACE@YORKU.CA]On Behalf Of Kome
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 10:34 AM
> > To: WOMENSPACE@YORKU.CA
> > Subject: Privacy and the Internet : A Primer (Usenet,PGP,Cookies)
> >
> >
> > This looks like a very useful collection of links.
> > cheers, Penney
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Subject: (fwd) Privacy and the Internet : A Primer
(Usenet,PGP,Cookies)
> > >
> > > Privacy and the Internet : A Primer (Usenet,PGP,Cookies)
> > > by Cipher
> > >
> > > ***** Usenet Posts *****
> > >
> > > Every article you post is archived somewhere. The two most popular
> > > archive services are Altavista, http://www.altavista.digital.com/
and > Deja News, http://www.dejanews.com
> > >
> > > Deja News intends to archive the Usenet going back to 1979, they
> > > currently go back to 1995. Altavista has an expiry date on the things
> > > they archive.
> > >
> > > If you don't want these two services to archive your posts, include
this > > > header in your posts. If you can't edit headers, make the
following the first line of your message followed by a blank line.
> > >
> > > x-no-archive: yes
> > >
> > > Should you wish to cancel an article before it's archived, your
> > > newsreader may have that option, however once it's archived you
> > will need to *nuke* it from Deja News. Go to this site :
> > >
> > > http://www.dejanews.com/forms/nuke.shtml
> > >
> > > ***** PGP *****
> > >
> > > >From the PGP Home Page :
> > >
> > > "PGP (short for Pretty Good Privacy) is a highly secure public key
> > > encryption program originally written by Philip Zimmermann.
> > Over the past few years, PGP has got thousands of adherent supporters
all over the globe and has become a de-facto standard for encryption of
email on the Internet."
> > >
> > > The encryption is so strong, it is illegal to export it outside the
U.S. International versions are not to be used in the U.S. It is available
> > > for most platforms. Trust me, when you set this thing to 4096 bit
> > > encryption even the boys and girls in the basement at Ft. Meade can't
> > > crack it! (1024 bit is considered Military Grade)
> > >
> > >
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> > > "If all the personal computers in the world -260 million- were
> > put to work > > > on a single PGP-encrypted message, it would still take
an estimated 12 > > > million times the age of the universe, on average, to
break a single > > > message."
> > > William Crowell, Deputy Director, National Security Agency, March 20,
> > > 1997.
> > >
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> > >
> > > You can create e-mail that only your recipient can read, encrypt
> > > documents on your hard disk and more. Start here :
> > >
> > > http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/index-pgp.html
> > >
> > > ***** Cookies *****
> > >
> > > Cookies are little snippets of information web sites place on your
hard > > > disk to track how many times you've visited them. Many claims
are made > > > about the pros and cons of cookies, but consider this :
> > >
> > > Chances are you've never been to a site called
> > http://www.doubleclick.net
> > > The chances are 8 in 10 that they
> > have set a cookie on your machine
> > > tho....
> > >
> > > Go to this site to find out how they did it, and how to
> > eliminate cookies
> > > :
> > >
> > > http://www.cookiecentral.com/dsm.htm
> > >
> > > Also, check this site :
> > >
> > > http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie.fcgi
> > >
> > > Mac users can avoid cookies without any software at all :
> > >
> > > Follow this path > System Folder:Preferences Folder:Netscape
Replace
> > > the FILE "MagicCookies" with a FOLDER named "MagicCookies" Netscape
will
> > > work normally, but be unable to read or write cookies because you
can't
> > > write to an empty folder. Seeing an item with the name, however
allows normal operation otherwise. Clever, eh?
> > >
> > > Using Internet Explorer, do the same, the file you're looking for is
> > > called cookies.txt Delete the save file and set its attributes to
> > > read-only, hidden and system.
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > How to mail anonymously
> > > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
> > >
> > > How to post anonymously
> > > http://www.sabotage.org/~don/mail2news.html
> > >
> > > How to surf anonymously
> > > http://www.anonymizer.com/
> > >
> > > News of the anonymous
> > > news:alt.privacy.anon-server
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > )\ ( ) /( Cipher/member news.newusers.questions moderation board
> > > )-(0^^0)-( Salus Populi Suprema Lex
> > > )/ \\// \( http://www.mindspring.com/~cipher/
> > > (oo) PGP Public Key available at my website or via finger
> > > o@o ~~ o@o Just Say *NO* to Key Escrow!
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > --
> > *********************************************************
> > Penney Kome, kome@shaw.wave.ca
> > author & journalist. Latest book:
> > Wounded Workers: The Politics of Musculoskeletal Injuries
> > website: http://www.cal.shaw.wave.ca/~komepond/