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Introduction to Online Security, Internet Privacy, Anonymous browsing.   As an honest hard-working citizen, you may think you have nothing to hide, but at the same time you may be annoyed with intrusive advertizing, or you may be concerned with the ability of hackers to see your bank accounts, or for governments, foreign or domestic to watch what you do online. Advertising Some people are surprised to see ads shortly after visiting a website.  For example, suppose you want to check the price of flights to Seattle, just out of curiosity to compare prices to different cities, but with no intention of ever going there.  Then, you notice over the next few days, that there all kinds of advertisements in your browser for flights, or hotels in Seattle.  Then you wonder how did those advertisers get the crazy idea that I might be interested in going to Seattle?  Or why do I keep seeing ads for something in which I have no interest?  That is tracking te...

Sure, you can now download music from the iTunes store without DRM but that doesn't mean you should just willy nilly start sharing that music with your friends. For one thing, it's illegal. For another, your account information is embedded into that m4a music file. Don't believe me? Try this yourself. The site is mostly for Mac users, but the strings command works in linux, and cygwin for Windows. This link has interesting comments as well. read more | digg story

The P2P network's founder Mark Gorton is in the fight of his life. read more | digg story

About P2P P2P software is free, and legal to install and use, but it does make sharing of copyrighted material easy to do, and that is not legal. Are people still using P2P software after Napster got shut down? Yes, they certainly are. Free music downloads? Free software? -- well be careful about copyrighted materials, but the technology is interesting nonetheless. One of the best ways to get a large file, such as a linux iso file, is to use bit torrent. Dangers What are the dangers, and inconveniences of using peer to peer file sharing software such as Limewire, eDonkey, Azureus, or Bittorrent? 1.) The content quality is only as good as how trustworthy the peers are 2.) Some content is copyrighted, and may be illegal to share or download on this type of network 3.) Content may contain viruses, trojans, and decoys 4.) Excessive traffic may cause your ISP to limit your bandwidth usage 5.) Some downloads may take days to complete 6.) There may be pornography disguised as something ...