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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #45 on: May 05, 2016, 11:32:10 PM »
Tor is used by hackers. One of the reasons I avoid it. :)

Tor is also used by activists/journalists all over the world to protect themselves.
And I would like to call myself a hacker too, but that doesn't mean I am a criminal.

There is nothing wrong with using Tor :)

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #46 on: May 05, 2016, 11:59:08 PM »
Opera VPN up close – is this browser now the world's best free privacy tool?

http://www.techworld.com/security/opera-vpn-up-close-is-this-browser-now-worlds-best-free-privacy-tool-3639017

Personally I like Opera, and they are taking some interesting steps here  :)

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #47 on: May 06, 2016, 12:08:07 AM »
Opera VPN up close – is this browser now the world's best free privacy tool?

http://www.techworld.com/security/opera-vpn-up-close-is-this-browser-now-worlds-best-free-privacy-tool-3639017

Personally I like Opera, and they are taking some interesting steps here  :)

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #48 on: October 15, 2016, 12:03:39 AM »
Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications https://ssd.eff.org/en

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #49 on: October 15, 2016, 12:08:12 AM »

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #50 on: October 15, 2016, 12:16:54 AM »
That is a different discussion/concern Eddy ;)

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #51 on: October 17, 2016, 02:07:23 PM »
Hi Red,

Can this help our users to secure that last bit of privacy they may have: http://www.mindfulbrowsing.com/  (free).

Read this advice in his strategy for increased privacy: https://medium.com/@SamiHonkonen/my-strategy-for-increased-privacy-40967ed72903#.dt0dj7d62  (info credits: Sami Honkonen)
For chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindful-browsing/cciemibfcmeeiijeefebhojenhnpoibc

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #52 on: October 17, 2016, 11:55:34 PM »
Hi Pol :)

I read about it on https://www.security.nl
Lets say Sami Honkonen does some things better than average people.

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #53 on: October 18, 2016, 12:21:31 AM »
Yep, Red, others complain a lot but when they are part of the problem, they aren't part of the solution.
Lots of privacy related discussions now going on at security.nl lately.

But again a lot of folks that are co-creating the problems for us, do not go there and read there,
same as here outside the avast community there is also a world of ignorant bliss.

When you know for instance that you should not let Whatsapp backup,
because it does not have e2e and stores your messages in plain txt mode.
And you did not change the settings on your android.
And you did not opt out of sharing and you trust the cloud not sharing,
then you are ignorant. And the ignorant will have their privacy abused grand time.

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #54 on: October 18, 2016, 12:26:14 AM »
Keep in mind that the right to privacy that exists in Europe,
isn't the same in the US.
I don't know your privacy is protected when you're posting in anything on this side of the ocean.
On this side of the ocean, you may attempt to hide but you don't have a specific right to privacy as such.
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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #55 on: October 18, 2016, 01:05:50 AM »
Right, have to agree with you, bob3160, but often the public also is against it, see this quote from wikepedia:
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On March 11, 2015, Intelligence Squared US, an organization that stages Oxford-style debates, held an event centered on the question, "Should the U.S. adopt the 'Right to be Forgotten' online?" The side against the motion won with a 56% majority of the voting audience.[18]

Also do not overestimate EU based privacy protection. It is rather selective. And we rapidly entering a global perspective, where big corp and lobbyist will take your last shreds of privacy away at least when it serves their interests best. Also politically correct bias is slowly changing the feeling of relative freedom of speech in the countries you once counted to belong to the old founding nations of the realms at the other side of the big fishing pond.

When we come to live in a world where we eat the same chickenburgers, where latto machiatto comes served in the same lid-containers, it is very likely our privacy gonna be treated in a similar way on either side of the ocean, only accents may differ.  We have neighbours, you have neigbors. We have colours, you colors. But a spade's still a spade, and let's call a spade a spade.

Here in the Netherlands for instance we have Amsterdam & Rotterdam,
and lots of Americans found they like the modern looks of Rotterdam very much.

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #56 on: October 18, 2016, 05:32:12 PM »
https://www.ixquick.nl/  Startpage soon now without any Yahoo results.

This decision came because of Yahoo's privacy abuse scanning user-mail on demand for  US security.
Dutch searchengine IXquick decided to end all cooperation with Yahoo.
The searchengine will not have any Yahoo results anymore towards the end of this year.

Good signal to those parties that live openly hand in foot with Big Brother,
and not only enforged while not be able to report about it by government gag order,
where it is often and more and more  freedom of speech and not privacy that comes under threat.

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #57 on: October 18, 2016, 10:48:12 PM »
Talking about privacy-respecting search engines :

https://searx.me

Searx is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.

Why use searx ?

   - searx may not offer you as personalised results as Google, but it doesn't generate a profile about you.
   - searx doesn't care about what you search for, never shares anything with a third party, and it can't be used to compromise you.
   - searx is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it better.

If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise believe in digital freedom, make searx your default search engine or run it on your own server.

See more on https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #58 on: October 18, 2016, 11:45:05 PM »
Hi, Red, thank you very much for that info.

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Re: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.
« Reply #59 on: October 19, 2016, 12:46:32 AM »
Hi Damian :)

As you know I am promoting Ixquick/Startpage search-engine(s) as well.
But I have to say I like searX very much.

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