Ipredia OS
I predia is similar to TAILS OS for the tor network, but this is for i2p and is built on fedora.
“IprediaOS is a fast, powerful and stable operating system based on Linux that provides an anonymous environment. All network traffic is automatically and transparently encrypted and anonymized.
Many applications are available in IprediaOS, including mail, peer-peer, bittorrent, IRC chat and others.
Features
I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties. I2P Project - www.i2p2.de
With IprediaOS you get this
I2P Router
Anonymous BitTorrent client
Anonymous e-mail client
Anonymous IRC client
Browse Internet anonymously
Find anonymous eepSites (i2p sites)” from their website
its definitely cool to use to checkout i2p ,running it in a virtual machine.
to get i2p http://www.i2p2.de/
more information about i2p : https://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Installing_and_using_I2P
http://wearehidden.tumblr.com/post/21139269152/i2p-anonymous-network
and this ISO for ipredia can be ran easly in virtual box or vmware
http://wearehidden.tumblr.com/post/25651023191/vmware-os-player
or virtual box http://wearehidden.tumblr.com/post/25289863977/virtualboxes-vb-images
I predia is similar to TAILS OS for the tor network, but this is for i2p and is built on fedora.
Note: Planning to install and test this OS next week :D
White House tightening its grip on Internet freedoms (by RTAmerica)
Now that Google has admitted in court documents that it has paid “so many commentators it’s impossible to list them all,” it looks like everyone’s a suspect.
On CNBC, Consumer Watchdog’s Jamie Court suggested Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson might be on the Google dole when the latter ripped into a bizarre screed about how consumers just don’t care about their internet privacy, and Consumer’s Union is bigger than Consumer Watchdog anyway, so how would they know what consumers want.
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Per Brad Reed: “Google’s cookie-planting antics were revealed this past February by Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford who published research showing how Google used loopholes within Apple’s Safari browser cookie-blocking policy to place unexpected third-party cookies within the browser.”
In the proposed settlement, Google gets to skate on any admission of wrongdoing, and “denies any violation of the FTC Order, any and all liability for the claims set forth in the Complaint, and all material allegations of the Complaint save for those regarding jurisdiction and venue.”
Consumer Watchdog has filed a motion challenging the settlement with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, which must approve the deal.
As part of the proposed settlement, Google is creating a “Red Team” to protect consumers from…well, itself.
I know I feel safe.
#UK sued for selling snooping tech to 'rogue states': #Privacy International furious
24 Jul 2012 | by Nick Farrell
The UK government is in hot water with Privacy International which is suing it for selling surveillance technology to Syria, Iran and Egypt.
The privacy watchdog said that the UK government allowed surveillance technology to be exported to repressive foreign regimes.
For a while now privacy groups have been wondering how Iran had been getting its paws on some natty software to spy on its citizens. The body claimed last year that Creativity Software had been selling a location-tracking system to Iran.
Then there were reports that Gamma International was selling “FinSpy” technology to the now-fallen Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak. That technology was used by the regime to hack into citizens’ email accounts, or even take full control of their computers.
Privacy International has penned a letter to Vince Cable, secretary of state for business innovation and skills, asking the government to change the rules which allow such technology to be easily exported.
The watchdog barked that the controls have not kept pace with the way the market and the technology have shifted.
Privacy International is concerned that the FinFisher range of products and other surveillance equipment has legitimate uses where export controls are unnecessary.
Apparently the government has two weeks to take action and update the list of products that need to be checked before export or Privacy International will file for judicial review and, if appropriate, seek an injunction.
According to ZDNet, a Privacy International spokesperson said the body fully expects to go to court, as it is unlikely the government will take action.
UK sued for selling snooping tech to ‘rogue states’ - Privacy International furious | TechEye
![by Dan Rowinski
How much do social and mobile service providers know about you? What are they doing with your personal information? If you’re worried, you’re not alone. A Harris Interactive survey commmissioned by TRUSTe, which helps its clients manage customer privacy, shows that 60% of adults surveyed are more concerned about their online privacy now than they were a year ago.
The study, conducted between May 31 and June 6, 2012, included 1,033 adults and 554 smartphone users in the United States aged 18 or older.
Ninety-four percent of respondants said that privacy was an important issue, and 58% said they ‘do not like’ online behavioral advertising.
Consumers are realizing that the first line of protection when it comes to privacy online is the individual.
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[Infographic] Survey: Consumers Are Concerned About Privacy, Tracking, Advertising](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7b8dyXob11qmhja6o1_1280.jpg)
by Dan Rowinski
How much do social and mobile service providers know about you? What are they doing with your personal information? If you’re worried, you’re not alone. A Harris Interactive survey commmissioned by TRUSTe, which helps its clients manage customer privacy, shows that 60% of adults surveyed are more concerned about their online privacy now than they were a year ago.
The study, conducted between May 31 and June 6, 2012, included 1,033 adults and 554 smartphone users in the United States aged 18 or older.
Ninety-four percent of respondants said that privacy was an important issue, and 58% said they ‘do not like’ online behavioral advertising.
Consumers are realizing that the first line of protection when it comes to privacy online is the individual.
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[Infographic] Survey: Consumers Are Concerned About Privacy, Tracking, Advertising
The End of Privacy?
July 14, 201, via @nofunctionart
Cellphones, e-mail, and online social networking have come to rule daily life, but Congress has done nothing to update federal privacy laws to better protect digital communication. That inattention carries a heavy price.
Striking new data from wireless carriers collected by Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and first reported last week by Eric Lichtblau of The Times, showed surging use of cellphone surveillance over the past five years by law enforcement agencies at every level and for crimes both mundane and serious.
Wireless carriers reported responding to a whopping 1.3 million demands from law enforcement agencies for subscriber information, including location data, calling records and text messages. The number of people whose information was turned over is almost certainly much higher because a single request for a cell tower “dump” could sweep in the names of thousands of people connected to a given tower at a certain time.
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#Google's new policy infringes #privacy of millions of internet users
Prerna Katiyar, Jul 4, 2012
Wondering how the ad for that pair of jeans you casually viewed on ebay.com, but decided not to buy, keeps popping up no matter what website you surf, no matter where? Blame it on Google’s new privacy policy.
Google’s new unified privacy policy unveiled in March is the ‘mother of all policies’ replacing 60 separate policies of its individual products, including Gmail, Google+ and YouTube. The company now considers an individual as a single user across all its products except Google Books, Chrome and Wallet.
This means that whenever you are logged in, Google will combine all the information it has gathered about you into an omnibus profile: based on friends’ lists, contact details, location, likes and dislikes, Gmail content and calendar, and automatically share it interchangeably among its products.
Needless to say, those tiny bits of information we give out on the net about ourselves become megabytes of valuable information for the company and its third-party allies, waiting to pitch you with more ads.
Google, an ad-driven company, has more than 90% market share in India, according to comScore. There are approximately one billion Google users worldwide and the search engine’s new unified privacy policy could be the largest corporate profiling of any kind in the world.
Many users and privacy advocates are already calling it the end of Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto. They feel the new policy goes against the ‘respect for privacy’ policy that Google has carefully cultivated as a way to attract more users. The European Union, the US, Japan and Brazil are already scrutinising and demanding a withdrawal or an amendment of this policy.
In contrast, the Indian government is yet to come up with an official line on the new policy. Our Union minister of state for communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, feels that although companies should be mindful of the individual’s privacy and should act responsibly, as Google is a US-incorporated company, it is for the US authorities to take action against the company.
With nary a choice of opt-out for the one-billion-plus subscribers, Google’s new unified privacy policy is virtually like a monopolistic tollgate on the internet. You do not pay anything, for sure, but you willy-nilly shed your privacy.
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Google’s new policy infringes privacy of millions of internet users - Economic Times
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