Answer to Klenke's dilemma?

[Stonehead]

Problem is, I'm getting more and more spam every day. Which one of you yahoos sold me out, hmmm? Comcast sucks donkeys now in this regard.

 

I've wondered that same question about spam. How do they get information besides email harvesters, spyware, techniques such as social engineering, and exploits? I recently came across a site that lets you see what type of information is available concerning you and your browser (http://gemal.dk/browserspy/ ). So, started thinking what might one do to prevent this leakage of information? Perhaps an anonymizer could do it.

 

One is a German site (http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html/ ). See website for detailed information concerning this anonymizer (JAP). As far as I know, JAP is a stand-alone application.

 

Also, came across information concerning something called Onion Routing (http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64464,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1). Go to this website to download a program called Tor. At the Tor download page, you may also obtain two other programs (OpenSSL & Privoxy) that may be needed to work together with Tor.

 

Klenke, I don't know if this may provide an answer to your spam deluge. Also, realize that these programs are not complete anonymizers, e.g, the German developers of JAP were required to insert a backdoor into the program (kind of like that NSA backdoor in MS Windows, huh?). I have also taken other steps such as switching from MS IE to Mozilla Firefox browser (patched, of course). Cryptography such as PGP might also help. Or is it overkill?

 

The worst part is that the script kiddies (and some blackhats) are uniting with the spammers. Their spyware becomes more sophisticated each day. It'll be a bad day when they learn how to use root kits.

[klenke]

Thanks, Stonehead. I'll check in to this.