Second, while their non-Java client is convenient for avoiding the bulk of your traffic getting sucked up by programs like Carnivore, use the Java client and not even Hushmail can hand anything over (they never received the private key, even for an instant).
A couple of weeks ago, I read an article containing some very frank quotes by one of the Hushmail spokesmen. In it he agreed with the interviewer that it was possible to bypass the private key in the Java client. All Hushmail needed to do was serve up a different version of the client, that contained a backdoor.
I use (and love) Gmail, but I assume the reason it redirects to gmail.google.com, is to prevent a user from blocking cookies from google.com. The upshot of this is that Google has a clear mapping between a persons' contacts, email content, links in emails etc on Gmail, and their searches and links used on google.com.
What I have been doing (in firefox) is to allow cookies from gmail.com and google.com just to get Gmail to work. Then I do all my searches/map queries through google.co.uk, and block cookies from google.co.uk. I also block thirdparty cookies on all sites. Hopefully this will make it more difficult for Google to link between my Gmail stuff and my searches.
What would be great is a greasemonkey-style script that works on Gmail and Google pages, removing the tracking from links, and dealing with cookies (can greasemonkey deal with cookies?). This would stop Google from having any knowledge of which links I click on in search results and email bodies.
There are links to various small tab extensions so you can pick and choose the functionality you want. This gives you only the features that you actually want without having to put up with the full Tabbrowser Extensions performance hit.
I use MiniT to give me drag and drop, all bookmarks in new tabs, and the order of focus, and BlankLast to prevent closing the last tab from closing the browser
Back when I was about 13, three of us entered our school science fair with a tesla coil we constructed.
My father found an old Popular Electronics (or something) magazine from his hobby days with some plans. We hand wound the voltage stepup coil, made condensors out of perspex plates and tinfoil, and borrowed a Ruhmkorff Induction Coil from school.
The unit was powered by a car battery and could spark about an inch and a half.
We put two bent copper rods for the spark to jump between. The spark would run up and down between these rods like old mad-scientist movies.
It felt pretty cool to put a finger in the spark and watch it jump straight through, with only a weird tingling sensation.
Aaah the electric shocks, the smell of ozone, the burns and blisters - God I miss science fairs.
It's a shame, really. I always admired their stiff upper lip and total hatred for whining.
I find this amusing, as in Australia and New Zealand, the English are often referred to as Whinging Poms. A whinger is one who whines and complains constantly.
This gives rise to a common joke: How can you tell that a jumbo jet is full of English tourists? The whining sound continues after the engines have been turned off.
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I believe all you have to do is call up the ZoneAlarm console, click the Alerts tab, and deselect "Log to a text file".
This feature only turns off the Alerts text file, NOT the URL database file.
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I have been using ZoneAlarm for a few months, and it seems to work well. However I have two problems with it. 1) I found that some programs such as Quicktime, and RealPlayer, can use your browser's TCP connections, so ZoneAlarm won't always alert you to them. 2) ZoneAlarm seems to run a logging program that stores all connection details (connections made, URLs visited, applications used) to a file called c:\windows\internet logs\YOURCOMPUTERNAME.ldb. There does not seem to be a way to turn this feature off. Even if ZoneAlarm is not running, there seems to be some threads that automatically start when windows starts up, that write to the log files. This is a privacy risk.
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A couple of weeks ago, I read an article containing some very frank quotes by one of the Hushmail spokesmen. In it he agreed with the interviewer that it was possible to bypass the private key in the Java client. All Hushmail needed to do was serve up a different version of the client, that contained a backdoor.
I have been thinking about this lately.
I use (and love) Gmail, but I assume the reason it redirects to gmail.google.com, is to prevent a user from blocking cookies from google.com. The upshot of this is that Google has a clear mapping between a persons' contacts, email content, links in emails etc on Gmail, and their searches and links used on google.com.
What I have been doing (in firefox) is to allow cookies from gmail.com and google.com just to get Gmail to work. Then I do all my searches/map queries through google.co.uk, and block cookies from google.co.uk. I also block thirdparty cookies on all sites. Hopefully this will make it more difficult for Google to link between my Gmail stuff and my searches.
What would be great is a greasemonkey-style script that works on Gmail and Google pages, removing the tracking from links, and dealing with cookies (can greasemonkey deal with cookies?). This would stop Google from having any knowledge of which links I click on in search results and email bodies.
Check out the thread devoted to Rebuilding TBE's featureset with other plugins at the mozillazine forums.
There are links to various small tab extensions so you can pick and choose the functionality you want.
This gives you only the features that you actually want without having to put up with the full Tabbrowser Extensions performance hit.
I use MiniT to give me drag and drop, all bookmarks in new tabs, and the order of focus, and BlankLast to prevent closing the last tab from closing the browser
My father found an old Popular Electronics (or something) magazine from his hobby days with some plans. We hand wound the voltage stepup coil, made condensors out of perspex plates and tinfoil, and borrowed a Ruhmkorff Induction Coil from school.
The unit was powered by a car battery and could spark about an inch and a half.
We put two bent copper rods for the spark to jump between. The spark would run up and down between these rods like old mad-scientist movies.
It felt pretty cool to put a finger in the spark and watch it jump straight through, with only a weird tingling sensation.
Aaah the electric shocks, the smell of ozone, the burns and blisters - God I miss science fairs.
I find this amusing, as in Australia and New Zealand, the English are often referred to as Whinging Poms. A whinger is one who whines and complains constantly.
This gives rise to a common joke:
How can you tell that a jumbo jet is full of English tourists?
The whining sound continues after the engines have been turned off.
This feature only turns off the Alerts text file, NOT the URL database file.
I have been using ZoneAlarm for a few months, and it seems to work well. However I have two problems with it.
1) I found that some programs such as Quicktime, and RealPlayer, can use your browser's TCP connections, so ZoneAlarm won't always alert you to them.
2) ZoneAlarm seems to run a logging program that stores all connection details (connections made, URLs visited, applications used) to a file called c:\windows\internet logs\YOURCOMPUTERNAME.ldb. There does not seem to be a way to turn this feature off. Even if ZoneAlarm is not running, there seems to be some threads that automatically start when windows starts up, that write to the log files. This is a privacy risk.