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[Updated] Anonabox Delivers Plug-And-Play Privacy For All Your Web Traffic
Anonabox is an open source plug and play hardware router designed to encrypt and route all the users’ web traffic via the Tor anonymizing network, so their browsing and location…
The Feds Found The Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht Thanks To A Leaky CAPTCHA
You may have heard that the infamous Dread Pirate Robets AKA Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road was taken down thanks to a problem in his anonymous Tor server. Now, however, Brian…
Tor Exec Claims NSA Agents Supply It With Vulnerability Information
The Tor Project, an effort to allow users to browse the Internet anonymously, thinks that it is receiving tips from spies focused on finding its flaws. Tor’s Andrew Lewman alleges…
iCloak Stik Aims To Put Robust Online Privacy In The Hands Of The Many, Not The Few
Meet iCloak Stik: a plug and play device that’s being designed to make robust online privacy accessible to the many not the few — by enabling an average computer user…
Encrypted To The Last Drop
Everything is for sale in the dark web marketplaces. Anonymous buyers can procure everything from prescription painkillers to exotic designer drugs. You can hire sex workers and buy weapons in…
The oRouter Is A Tor-Powered Linux Box That Secures Your Internet Connection
Longtime TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon participants, Kay Anar and Gilad Shai showed off their hardware hack today called the “oRouter” – a Linux-powered, Raspberry Pi-like computer offering secure Wi-Fi access…
After Silk Road
The Internet routes around damage. With the fall of the Silk Road there comes the inevitable expectation that the underbelly of the Internet is somehow cut and something important has…
The NSA Can Read Some Encrypted Tor Traffic
Security expert Robert Graham has done a bit of research and posts that the encryption standard used by earlier versions of the “secure” Tor protocol is most probably insecure and…
The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 10th Birthday By Launching A Tor-Based Anti-Censorship Browser
The Pirate Bay (TPB), the torrent site that really doesn’t need an introduction anymore, celebrates its 10th birthday today. To mark the day, TPB launched PirateBrowser, “a bundle package of the…
Worried Who’s Watching Your Web Browsing? Adafruit’s Onion Pi Tor Proxy Project Creates A Private, Portable Wi-Fi Access Point
Adafruit Industries has put together a weekend project for people worried the NSA is monitoring how many reruns of Seinfeld they watch on their tablet. The Onion Pi Tor Proxy…
Onion Browser: A Mobile Browser For The Truly Paranoid
If, for whatever reason, you need to cover your tracks while you are browsing the web on your desktop, you have plenty of options to keep anonymous. Thanks to Orbot,…
Palin e-mail hacker traced to University of Tennessee dorm
The very fabric of our democracy came under attack last week when a hacker broke into Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. Federal investigators have since been involved, and…