Network Forensics Evasion: How to Exit the Matrix

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{QUOTE-> Privacy and anonymity have been eroded to the point of non-existence in recent years. Our personal, private information is stockpiled and sold to the highest bidder like so much inventory at a warehouse. National Security Letters are written to make countless requests for records from our search engines, libraries, and book stores with no court oversight. Email and especially searchable data is practically unprotected from anyone who might ask to have it. All our electronic communications are tapped. Massive governmental data mining schemes are being built to record everything we publish on the web. In many workplaces, employers spy on and control their employees' Internet access, and this practice is widely considered to be acceptable. <-QUOTE}
Exit the Matrix (http://www.ncmilitia.org/matrix/index.html)

[caspian]

Wow that's a lot to read. It says 2006. Do you think it is still mostly valid information today?

[Nebulus]

I would tend to say partly yes, partly no. Let me explain. The document is pretty good in my opinion, especially at pinpointing the privacy/anonymity problems that surrounds the internet. The problems are very well described and specified. However, the solutions are a bit old and some of them a bit unrealistic. Some of them are pure technical solutions that can be used now without any difficulties. But what worries me is the law related part, because the situation is deteriorating each year, and the day when everyone is considered guilty and will have to prove innocence in court draws near (it is here in some countries, but that is another story) - so some of the proposed ideas will be quickly rendered obsolete.

No matter what drawbacks it might have, though, I highly recommend reading it :thumb:

[caspian]

Thanks for explaining that for me. Caspian