Firefox 3.5 can tell websites where you’re located so you can find info that’s more relevant and more useful.
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Gmail finally provided “offline” mode via Google Gears. So when Gears is enabled you can access your Gmail from your browser any time… even when you’re not online! Ok so that’s cool… but where does it store the data and is the data secure?
When a website attempts to interact with a gears datastore it uses uses the same origin policy as its underlying security model. In a nutshell, the policy permits scripts running on pages originating from the same site to access each other’s methods and properties with no specific restrictions — but prevents access to most methods and properties across pages on different sites. This means that a web page with a particular scheme, host, and port can only access resources with the same scheme, host, and port.
This means a site using Gears:
The data is stored locally using a SQLite database. The downer is that your data within this database is NOT encrypted. Gears data files are protected with the user’s operating system login credentials. Users with separate login names cannot access each other’s Gears data files… but this is only enforced by the operating system.
If two users are sharing the same login to the operating system they could theoretically access each other’s Gears data files, just as they could access any other file on the machine.
Comments rss TrackbackAlisa Miller has an excellent writeup on 50 tools to use if you want to protect yourself from Internet snoopers, want to spy on those out to get you, or want to be able to track trends that you know will lead to something big. All the tools listed are free or have a free trial.
Comments rss TrackbackTrueCrypt is a software application used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). It can create a file-hosted container or write a partition which consists of an encrypted volume with its own file system, contained within a regular file, which can then be mounted as if it were a real disk. TrueCrypt also supports device-hosted volumes, which can be created on either an individual partition or an entire disk. With version 5.0 it can encrypt the windows boot partition.TrueCrypt is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It is distributed under a collection of licences, including the TrueCrypt License, which is judged by Debian to be a free software license.
Comments rss TrackbackThe DemocraKey was created in May of 2006. Within two days, over 60,000 people had read about the DemocraKey and built their own. It was featured on MSN, Digg, Lifehacker, and hundreds of other pages. Now, it’s entering version 2.0, where it becomes a complete, portable privacy suite. DemocraKey helps scan and surf securely from computer to computer. You can install it on a portable thumbdrive and now even on an iPod. Visit a friends house, surf from a kiosk, or just need some privacy? Pop it in and off you go. DemocraKey has built in TOR support in the browser, which can hide your internet activity. Sounds sweet, portable too!
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