IPretorian Blog, Internet Privacy Protector

If You see something like this on Your machine:

Do not freak out, it’s just ugly malware scam. Nobody can not scan Your computer without Your permission or court of law warrant. ICCP Foundation is apparently behind this, running this cash extortion scam. Read full story on TorrentFreak.

They or any other organization have no right to scan Your computer and demand money from You. Best way to give them finger is encrypt all Your traffic and downloads with our Privacy Protector engine based software – we are working hard to get it done. Stay tuned.

Folks at IPREDator.se sent me an email tehir service is up – so anyone can give it a try. What it does is allowing registered users to login to IPREDator VPN Gateway in Sweden through PPTP connection (very simpe and cross platform), and access the Web as Mr. Anonymous. Some people say it works great and it’s quite cheap: 15 Euros/3 months; we could  not tell as payment service rejected our credit card – weird, it is good enough for AppStore.

Anyway service is fast, quite cheap (if You’re actually able to pay), yet have few disadvantages: since it uses only Sweedish IP’s You won’t be able to use Hulu, or free Last.fm services. Former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde said, that contrary to what the legal page states, no logs of any kind are kept by Ipredator.

Well, since we have no sweedish bank acount, maybe You will have more luck. Let us know what You think of it.

Electronic Frontier Foundation published interesting article on trends to watch in 2010, from 12 listed half is about privacy concerns:

• GSM and browsers encryption hacks, ( A5/1, an algorithm to encrypt G.S.M. cellphone conversation was broken)
• Global Internet Censorship; It may soon be dicided for You, what is good for You and what is not.
• Location Privacy – computers and even cell phones can easily keep track of Your whereabouts, and You can’t be sure, where that information go
• Social Networking Privacy – social networks wants more users, discourage privacy
• Three Strikes; in short “You have visited forbidden website or looked at forbidden file, we will cut You off from Internet” – sad reality in France and South Korea
• Web Browser Privacy  - You are constantly profilled by various companies when online

More reasons to take control of Your privacy. We can help with that.