26-09-2011, 09:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-09-2011, 11:32 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Ed Jewett Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:.. only the advanced computer geek would know how to secure one's computer completely....
a) Send one to my house.
b) Hold a seminar.
c) Point to locations, plans, tools, costs, and levels.
I am aware of some countermeasures, but they are not all easy [understatement!] to employ successfully or easily...or without disrupting, in part, the usual internet experience. Proxy servers that continually change their apparent location and your IP address are one technique...but they have their downsides too...and some are run by the bad guys. Very powerful Internet Security programs and anti-hacking software, are another. The better ones are a bit difficult to configure.
Special programs that watch cookies and other computer processes help...but take some advanced knowledge to interpret. For example, two such programs called 'Hack This' and 'Hijack Hunter' are very good....but most persons can NOT interpret the useful results...and they don't really provide a teach-yourself primer. Snort is another set of programs, very good, but very complex to set up. The cyber world now demands advanced skills for those of us posting or just looking at information at odds with the propaganda line.
Microsoft has long been suspect as having built in a trap-door in the programs...but this has not been proven.....but I believe it likely. I'd suggest switching to Ubuntu or other Linux system for starters....security is still needed, but more available and not needed at the same level, usually....unless you are a 'target'....as many of us on this Forum would logically be....along with a million others.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass