I am using a Toshiba laptop with one of those "pencil eraser nubs." I installed gesturing for Mozilla and find it works great.
I really like the nub and am dreading the day I have to give it up when I upgrade (it seems as if most laptop manufacturers are using touchpads). I like being able to keep my hands on the keyboard all of the time. I find that having to take my hands off the keyboard to use a touchpad or mouse wastes time--especially when doing typing intensive tasks. With a nub I can use either gesturing or keyboard shortcuts from the keyboard!
You can encrypt to your heart's content but if they see you encrypting information suspicions will be raised immediately. If you are a foreigner anything could happen from simply being put on the next plane to being tried as a spy. If you are a citizen they will probably torture anything they want out of you.
A friend of mine was in a communist country in Asia recently and knew he was being monitored. He didn't know quite how much until one day he was using the internet to chat with a friend in North America. He was suddenly cut off. The phone rang a second later and an official questioned him regarding his conversation.
Many people in non-democratic countries use only mail hand carried by trusted sources in order to get information in and out of the country. If you must use your computer, well, save the stuff to disk. Chatting this way won't be in realtime but it will be the safest way.
Another option that is becoming more viable is satelite. Bypass the county's ISP's altogether. The equipment needed is getting smaller and cheaper all of the time and it should be fairly difficult to detect and intercept. Should have handheld satelite phones again in a few months.
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I am using a Toshiba laptop with one of those "pencil eraser nubs." I installed gesturing for Mozilla and find it works great.
I really like the nub and am dreading the day I have to give it up when I upgrade (it seems as if most laptop manufacturers are using touchpads). I like being able to keep my hands on the keyboard all of the time. I find that having to take my hands off the keyboard to use a touchpad or mouse wastes time--especially when doing typing intensive tasks. With a nub I can use either gesturing or keyboard shortcuts from the keyboard!
You can encrypt to your heart's content but if they see you encrypting information suspicions will be raised immediately. If you are a foreigner anything could happen from simply being put on the next plane to being tried as a spy. If you are a citizen they will probably torture anything they want out of you.
A friend of mine was in a communist country in Asia recently and knew he was being monitored. He didn't know quite how much until one day he was using the internet to chat with a friend in North America. He was suddenly cut off. The phone rang a second later and an official questioned him regarding his conversation.
Many people in non-democratic countries use only mail hand carried by trusted sources in order to get information in and out of the country. If you must use your computer, well, save the stuff to disk. Chatting this way won't be in realtime but it will be the safest way.
Another option that is becoming more viable is satelite. Bypass the county's ISP's altogether. The equipment needed is getting smaller and cheaper all of the time and it should be fairly difficult to detect and intercept. Should have handheld satelite phones again in a few months.
Sig. Sig. Sig. Sig. Sig.