Month: November 2010

Here’s An Identity Cloaker Coupon for You

OK further down the page you’ll find and Identity Cloaker Coupon, basically I get quite a lot of requests for cracks, serials and downloads for copies of my favorite security software Identity Cloaker. Ironically there has been a big upsurge in the use of these products, not particularly for the anonymity but because an IP cloaker is needed to bypass lots of geotargeting restrictions.

That is people want programs that can hide their IP address so that they can access stuff like BBC Iplayer, Hulu and Pandora no matter which country they’re in. One thing you instantly notice is that you can forget using free products for streaming video down – although for just audio like Pandora it’s probably ok.

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Which brings me back to the title and these requests for a cracks for Identity Cloaker, I haven’t got one because it’s a subscription – it has to be every MB downloaded has a cost to it – they’re called bandwidth charges. So you either use advertising to recoup your costs and enter the security nightmare of something like AnchorFree or Hola which then riddles your computer with adware, spamware and goodness knows what or you have to pay for the service. Which is why you need an account to logon to these services, the software is free but access to servers can never be.

So please stop looking for cracks, serials or gens for any of the commercial VPN services because you won’t find any. But I appreciate everything in the world worth having now seems to cost a fortune as my children’s christmas lists are a horrifying example of.

So I’ve nagged the Identity Cloaker guys and they let me have an Identity Cloaker coupon thing that gives you 15% off .  It works on everything but the trial subscription (the ten day one).

Here’s the Code – 3E9E264B you just add it to the coupon section to get the discount – .

And just so everyone knows – it is a security product, the best available in my opinion. But it can be used to access all the media sites like BBC Iplayer, Hulu, NBC etc using either a proxy or the VPN function, although it’s not advertised on their site as they don’t wish to be the target of legal letters from those companies.

So if you’re feeling fed up on arriving at this page and not finding a free version I’m sorry.  But there is a purpose to the subscription, not only does it pay for the many servers across the world – it also allows the company to invest.

There is a new version which will be released soon which is the result of several years of development work – from a security side it introduces some amazing features but there’s more…….The new version of Identity Cloaker is speed optimized and will actually boost the speed of your internet connection for many people!

Try out the 10 Day Trial of Identity Cloaker.

Catch the Criminals – Not the Innocent

One of the problems I have with all the monitoring, filtering and surveillance that goes on online it that it rarely works. For a start surveillance, 99.999% of the time all you are doing is monitoring the innocent. Anyone who has anything to hide can easily takes steps to bypass the monitoring. So in the end all the online big brother stuff does is invade our privacy – it rarely picks up anything from the guilty as they cover their tracks.

It’s the same with blocking and filtering access to sites that we decide are no appropriate. You may argue that it’s right to filter websites with dangerous and criminal content – I would argue back it’s also normally just a huge waste of time. Any site that contains for instance illegal pornography can be copied and rehosted on a thousand other sites with ease. They can be encrypted, sent on usb keys or DVDs or hosted on darknet sites. In effect it’s a great big fat waste of time, the URL filtering slows down our surfing and the only thing you achieve is this

A completely false feeling that you’ve dealt with the problem, when of course you haven’t.
You’ve Blocked access to websites to people who weren’t going to use them anyway
Driven the criminals responsible for this further underground.

Let’s get this straight blocking the website of a paedophile ring does little to help the victim, other than pretending they don’t exist. What we need to do is cooperate and catch the criminals involved.

This is a perfect example of what should be happening – http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_releases/140_10/
, a racist uploading videos onto Youtube, don’t put resources into monitoring access, or filtering the web site out. Simply catch the people responsible and bring them to justice.

Facebook Email – Anyone Else Worried ?

Now I’ve never been a big fan of all the free email accounts like hotmail and gmail, having all your email stored by one single central provider is just to much to trust someone with. But predictions are that these are going to be dwarfed by the new email accounts provided by Facebook. After all they have over 500 million members and so much information on each and every user that it is truly scary. We’ve already heard the stories of thieves and burglars using Facebook updates to pick their victims – what could be easier than selecting a user who is updating their status from a bar in Hawaii.

There are of course some huge benefits of using systems like Facebook to communicate if you ignore the security risks. For one a decent world wide spam filter would make email much easier to use. I don’t know about you but even my most prized accounts are starting to get more and more spam, which also entails tightening up filters – inevitably leading to genuine messages getting lost too. To the extent that email is becoming less of the reliable method of communication it once was, you’re never quite sure if an email has been delivered any more.

But the amount of data about each and everyone of us that Facebook will have is very worrying. The power of those Facebook ads you see on the side of your screen will soon overcome the Google adverts. Imagine advertisers being able to target ads so exactly in the case of peoples location, likes, dislikes, demographics and income levels to name just a few. I imagine if you looked at even all the publicly held data on an avid Facebook user you’d get an extremely accurate picture of that individual. Start cross referencing with all the private data like search phrases, fan pages and browsing history and you’ll know more about an individual than their partners.

I’m not saying that this is the intent of Facebook but the temptation in the face of profit potential will be huge. The threats to the privacy of our data grow by the month it seems, and there is little to stop the threat growing.