Five basic tools to feel more secure Internet

Our information-public or private, is a treasure for the companies that dominate the Internet. Of course, for governments or other powerful groups. For some people this is a serious problem, for others not so much. This post is dedicated to you who are part of the first, you'll find a collection of basic tools that will make you feel safer on the Internet, better yet, all are free and open source.

If anything belong to the group of disinterested, I warmly invite you understand more the consequences of the lack of privacy, anonymity and security in general inherently safe "because well-designed Internet.

And whatever your case, remember that no tool is infallible.

1. Tor

Use Tor if you want anonymity when surfing the web. Be confident that your steps will not be tracked or monitored, that your browsing habits will remain with you. While it is true that the benefits of Tor are used by various social and political movements-in Iran and Egypt, for example, so you can do on your own through your favorite browser extensions, the Torbutton Firefox-or with customers as Vidalia .

Indeed, it was learned recently that the Tor Project will begin work on a derivative version of Mozilla Firefox.

2. OTR

Use OTR (off-the-record) if you want privacy and anonymity is instant messaging (IM). Integrated multiprotocol IM clients like Pidgin and Adium, OTR not only encrypts each message between the parties, imagine you want to send that important password-but prevent others know who did what. No matter if you are a user of Messenger, GTalk, or any other messaging protocol, OTR work. (Guide for Pidgin and OTR in Bitelia.)

3. Scroogle

Use Scroogle if Google does not want to get data from you, at least in regard to the searches. Scroogle is a kind of intermediary between you and Google, prevent you from sharing your browsing habits, cookies, IP address, and possibly other personal information.

Certainly Scroogle search interface leaves much to be desired, if not support, you may want to use the encrypted version , still in beta, the Google Search. Another excellent alternative is DuckDuckGo .

4. HTTPS Everywhere

Use HTTPS Everywhere if you want encrypted communications between the browser and the web sites you visit. This is an extension for Mozilla Firefox created jointly by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a bastion of digital rights in the U.S.. U.S. .- and the Tor Project. What it does is to force secure connections (HTTPS) to a predefined set of websites like Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress sites, etc. As a user can define other sites of your choice as long as they provide support for HTTPS web pages.

5. Enigmail + Thunderbird

Use Enigmail and Thunderbird e-mail to send confidential. Web client Gmail and Hotmail do not offer alternatives for sending encrypted emails. The de facto standard in this regard is OpenPGP, which provides public key encryption, one that you can share for others to send confidential mail, contained in a message that only you can open. Conversely, you can use public keys shared by others to send secret messages. But what makes Enigmail is to manage the keys and use the Thunderbird mail client, which, in turn, can be configured to use Gmail, Hotmail and others.

Five basic tools to feel more confident on the internet written in ALT1040 on 8 May, 2011 alan.lazalde
Send to Twitter | Share on Facebook