Archive for the tag "encryption"
Securely browsing the net – using SOCKS
If you are using a public/open wireless access point (like, in an Internet Cafe), or if you live in a country where people are not all that happy or concerned about it’s citizens’ freedom, you sometimes find yourself in the position that you want to hide your browsing behaviour from others. I will describe a [...]
Posted: 10 April, 2010 in Software.
Tags: browsing, encryption, socks, tunnel
Comments: 11
Dropbox
Is your head in the clouds yet? For years now, I have been waiting for Google’s promise of free online storage, called the “GDrive“. In the meantime Google (and it’s competitors) have made it much easier to store your data online in various ways (look at Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs, Gmail etc), but that [...]
Posted: 19 November, 2009 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: cloud, cross-platform, encryption, free, storage
Comments: 18