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No, not free porn for Australian families… It’s the other way around.

Australian internet users: Guess what? You don’t have to make decisions regarding what websites you’re going to view anymore - The government will do it for you! John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia, will be spending $189 million in his quest to clean up the web. In doing so, he’ll be blocking access to “pornography, violence, and sexual predators” as well as “terror sites”. You can read more about John Howard’s internet porn crusade here. I would tend to think that Australian web surfers would still be able to access whatever they wanted by using web-based proxy sites. This is unfortunate, but we’ll have to wait and see how it pans out.

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When it comes to freely available web-based proxy scripts, Glype Proxy may not be the most well known. But it’s an “up and comer” so to speak, and definitely worth keeping an eye on. Glype Proxy 0.3b was released on August 6th, and it comes with some new features - namely, server side caching. What this means is that files that are commonly requested by users of your proxy site will be saved on the server. The script also comes with am improved setup wizard, and other notable features include IP banning, access controls, and a “curse word” filter. The script can be downloaded here. Please remember that this is still in beta, so there may be some bugs, in which case you should report to the script’s support forum. Feel free to post your Glype proxies in the comments of this post!

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If you’re one of those people that is paranoid about who has access to your information, you may already be familiar with CIPAV (The Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier). If not, it’s basically spyware that was developed by the FBI. It captures sensitive information such as a user’s IP address, MAC address, open ports, running programs, operating system, last visited URL, and more.

You may wonder how the FBI could get away with developing and deploying such a program. It was ruled that the information gathered by CIPAV is “the legal equivalent of dialed phone numbers”, and therefore the government can obtain this information without needing to show probable cause or obtain a wiretap warrant. Shocking, isn’t it?

While most of us may not have a whole lot to hide from the FBI, we all deserve privacy. This article will explain to you how to “detect and deter” CIPAV and other similiar programs. If the FBI can develop and deploy garbage like this without us knowing, we should be able to protect ourselves from it.

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