E Pluribus Unum Magnum Cepa Tor, or The Onion Router, is the software equivalent of an iron clad shield to the 1st amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. It protects user anonymity and privacy, allows a user to access hidden, deeply secure, and secretive parts of the internet, and allows website owners to operate…
Tag: security
Tor, what is it good for?
What is it good for? A whistleblower, journalist, or blogger in a hostile environment, a hostage or victim of human trafficking; those dominated, vulnerable, marginalized, propagandized, and all those generally in need of a way to speak out or seek out, to cry out maybe for the sake of their very lives… all of these folks need the same critical thing: a voice. They all…
Damn the internet blockades! Run your own Private Proxy server with Seamless Authentication
Paying attention to the news, and to certain types of legislation that are constantly being passed around, it becomes more and more obvious that we people might want to secure our internet usage form prying eyes. I am a big proponent of privacy and security, and of just people keeping their nose out of other people’s…
Fancy 403: Ban them All!
Lot’s of tech savvy computer users these days have figured out how to set up a home server to act as a file server, a streaming media server, a legitimate web-site server, a proxy server, and any number of other case sues. Surely, having access to your home computer, akin to your own personal “cloud”, while…
SOCKS5 Proxy in Ubuntu 14.04: mystery no more!
Secure Your Internet Traffic on Ubuntu 14.04 with a SOCKS proxy (it’s easier than you think!) In this day and age, we use our computers for everything from banking and bills to searching for love, trolling our friends on social media sites, and even telling our deepest secrets to our most trusted allies. We trust our…
Anti-SPAM! or How I secured NousEssence
SPAM! Why should I have to worry about spam, right? This is a pretty low traffic site (sigh) and who’s going to spam on me? I had a post a bit ago about passing a spam right of passage and enabling a bit of security to get around it. Well, the spam dude was not…