Safe CyberSex

Every time you visit a Web site, you provide information about yourself. Government authorities, advertisers, spammers, criminals, invasive programs, or hackers can obtain and share this data with anyone. Your online activities can be logged and tracked, and your personal information (like credit card details and email contents) can be viewed and used without your knowledge or consent.

To protect yourself, you simply need to understand potential dangers and know how to defend yourself.

Porn Scams - there are lots of ways you can be ripped off. Don't be fooled.

Privacy FAQ - what is a cookie? what is an IP address? what is spam? what is encyption? what is IM invasion? how do I shop safely?

Legal Invasion - the UK government is watching you and wants to see even more.

Know Your Online Rights - censorship, shopping, copyright, privacy, freedoms.

Security Alerts - - "You can't depend on manufacturers to acknowledge security problems, even when there are multiple major deficiencies."

Ultimate Anonymity - "provides innovative tools and techniques to those seeking complete online anonymity." (All Windows platforms, Mac, Unix, AOL, Web-TV)

Junkbusters.com - is a privacy advocacy firm that helps people get rid of junk messages of all kinds: spam, telemarketing calls, unwanted junk mail, junk faxes, and more.

Privoxy.org - is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. (Windows-95, 98, ME, 2000, XP-, Linux-RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Conectiva, Gentoo, Slackware-, Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, BeOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and many more flavors of Unix).

Unpopular - Eliminate pop-up advertisements and pop-up windows while browsing the internet. (Mac OS X, Mac OS 8.5-9.2)

Freedom WebSecure - is a state-of-the-art Internet privacy software that allows for anonymous surfing and private web browsing. (Any PC)

Home PC Firewall Guide - An unprotected computer connected to the Internet via broadband (cable, DSL) is like leaving your car running with the doors unlocked and the keys in it which a thief might interpret as "please steal me".

Proxomitron.org - a free and simple web-filter. (Windows).

PGP - encrypt your email.

CryptoMail.org - encrypted email service.

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Last update: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 10:57:02 AM.