GhostSurf 6

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Where did the
programming go?
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Just “Mousing” Around
About ten years ago while attending COMDEX (remember COMDEX?) I came across a lovely unusual item,
a mouse pad that looked like a Persian rug. I did not buy it
then but decided to buy it a day or so later. Needless to say
I never got around to buying it as I could not remember
at what booth I saw it.
I have always wanted one ever since
that time. I suddenly had an inspiration;
maybe if I type mouse pad rugs in Google
something will come up. Walla -- it did! In
fact Google brought up several manufacturers web sites. They are rather expensive,
but I just had to have one.
I am very tempted to order one even though they are
very expensive. However, after all is said and done, as
Don Nendell says, “happiness is a working computer.”
Stay tuned. Maybe next month I will be singing the
praises of an Apple Computer! (Never thought it would
happen.)
Recent
Tech Events
My mouse now slides in comfort over
a replica of a Persian rug. Fun, fun, fun.
If you want to see what they look like, I recommend
mouserug.com and enjoy.
The “Dark Side”
Warning, I am contemplating going over to the “Dark
Side!” I am still having trouble with Windows 7. I was on
the phone with Microsoft (India?) for three and a half
hours a few days ago trying to straighten out some of the
problems I was having. I finally got Windows to run on
my new SSD drive, but it still (sometimes) does not want
to load correctly.
I have run three different virus checkers to look for
malicious software, but all of them say I am clean, so it
must be some conflict with the programs I am using. My
son, Ryan, who troubleshoots computers at the University
of Utah cannot seem to eliminate the problem either. (By
the way, I have AMD and an Intel computers and Windows 7 balks on both of them so it is not the processor.)
All of a sudden I receive an e-mail form Apple which
announces the availability of a new powerful 27 inch
screen computer with incredible graphics. (Droll, droll)
Apple Most Valuable
Apple overtook search-engine giant
Google to become the world’s most valuable brand, according to a company in
Boston named Millward Brown. I know
nothing about this company and I don’t
believe I have any long lost relatives there
(although my grandfather said one of his
brothers settled in Boston. )
Apple’s value climbed in the past year to $153.3 billion. A spokesman for Millward Brown said. “Google’s
brand lost 2 percent to $111.5 billion, ending four years
atop the rankings, while International Business Machines
Corp. climbed 17 percent to be the No. 3, ahead of McDonald’s Corp.”
Firefox is on Fire!
Recently Firefox 4 downloads are outpacing Internet Explorer 9 downloads. This is despite the fact
that Microsoft has started pushing the new browser via
Windows Update.
It appears that Internet Explorer 9 will never catch
up to Firefox in the foreseeable future. Microsoft will
have to be satisfied to be number three in terms of usage
among the modern browsers.”
The reason for this is very clear. Internet Explorer 9
only runs on Windows Vista and 7, while Firefox runs on
Windows XP, Vista and 7, along with Mac OS and Linux.
Still, this is quite an impressive achievement for
Firefox.
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Security-Related Report #20
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still eating your Nut & Honey cereal 5 and don’t even have a clue
as to what is swirling dangerously
around you/them that ultimately
could have grave repercussions/
consequences for us all? I sometimes herein feel like a cel from
the comic strip Mother Goose and
Grimm; “Entertaining, but not
serious!” (See Graphic).
Folks, please don’t take all
this lightly. It’s really deadly serious stuff! I’d much prefer to see
you “Shake ‘n Bake!” (See Graph-
down here in Sin Town.
We start with a duzzie.... And,
this definitely ain’t “Nut’n Honey?
ic), than
remain so
naive about
all this Security. With
that feeble
attempt at
wry, or is it
“rye” humor,
let’s “get the
show on the
road,” as the
saying goes
Sony admits massive data
breach, gamers’ accounts ransacked by John P. Mello, Jr. GSN
Magazine, April 27, 2011. Sensitive
information for some 75 million gamers on Sony’s PlayStation network has
been pilfered by hackers, the company
acknowledged on April 26. “We have
discovered that between April 17 and
April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account
information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized
intrusion into our network,” the entertainment giant informed the gamers
at its PlayStation Knowledge Center.
“Although we are still investigating the
details of this incident, we believe that
an unauthorized person has obtained
the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip),
country, email address, birthdate, Play-
Prolog 3
This month, as usual, it’s all about
protecting one’s self, privacy, personal
information and freedoms, and especially, financial well-being, plus how
to guard against the invasion thereof
through “anonymity.”
I always have
some trepidation
on writing another SecurityRelated BCM
Review/Report
1 & 2
(#20 3) (SR), this being my 105th, particularly so soon after my S-R in February 2011 (#19 3). Trouble is, I
see Security-Related “Bad News”
every day, and have for over 15
years now, and sad to say, most
of you out there in La-La land
(including some members of our
own government evidently?) are
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Station Network/Qriocity password and
login, and handle/PSN online ID,” the
company said. “It is also possible that
your profile data, including purchase
history and billing address (city, state,
zip), and your PlayStation Network/
Qriocity password security answers
may have been obtained,” it continued.
“If you have authorized a sub-account
for your dependent, the same data with
respect to your dependent may have
been obtained.”
Anonymous Hacked Sony’s PlayStation Network! No They Didn’t!
by Chloe Albanesius, May 6, 2011, PC
Magazine, The debate over whether
online activist group Anonymous was
behind the Sony PlayStation hack
continued Friday, with a group spokesman taking to the op-ed pages of The
Guardian to deny any wrongdoing,
while sources told the Financial Times
that Anonymous members are probably
behind the attack. Sony’s PlayStation
Network has been offline since April 20
thanks to a sophisticated cyber attack.
Earlier this week, Sony told members
of Congress that one of its Sony Online
Entertainment (SOE) servers contained
a file called “Anonymous” with the words
“We Are Legion,” the group’s tagline. In
response, Anonymous said it has never
engaged in credit card theft, and said
that many of its corporate adversaries
engage in activities far more ethically
suspect than Anonymous.
PlayStation
breach a warning for Apple
and YouTube
by John Kennedy,
Silcon Republic,
April 28, 2011. It
has already been
termed one of the
greatest security
breaches in history, but will the
Sony PlayStation
network breach that has affected 77M
users provide a salutary lesson to players
like Apple and Amazon, who also hold
millions of credit card details? Every
time I download an app on my iPhone
or iPad, for example, I’m asked for a
password. That’s it [My added emphasis here]. The app is downloaded
and is mine to enjoy in just seconds.
However, behind the scenes and over
the air and down the broadband pipes,
at the end is a slick, serious engine at
Apple that crunches the numbers, manages the transaction and green lights the
download [plus, also tracks your iPhone
GPS location for up to a year]. Few in
the world realize it but Apple is one of
the world’s largest repositories of credit
card information. Every iPad, iPod and
iPhone user must have a credit card in
order to enjoy iTunes....
“Larry Ponemon, chairman and
founder of the Ponemon Institute, said
the theft could cost Sony more than $1.5
billion, or an average of $20 for each of
the 77 million customers whose data was
potentially compromised. Poneman’s
firm specializes in securing information
on computer networks.” (Reuter’s)
“Cyber crime preys on the enterprise
with a vengeance. Criminals work 24
hours a day, every day, and are getting
more sophisticated despite our best
enterprise defenses.” - Eric Friedberg,
Co-President, Stroz Friedberg, The
State of Cybercrime presentation at
the CSO Executive Seminar Series on
Cyber Security, March 16, 2011.
Looking at the pathetic “number
of views” of each of the “selectable(*)
YouTube Videos on Cybercrime” (See
Below) is actually as scary to me personally as what is actually happening in the
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world of Cybercrime today. I feel like
Chicken Little crying “The Sky is Falling!” No one listened to her either, but
it’s still no less important to everyone.
So, how did “they” get to Sony?
Well, if you even care just a little
about all this Security-Related Report stuff, at the very least look at a
4:00 minute, stunning Nov. 12, 2010
YouTube video entitled: State of Cybercrime: Cybercrime is on the
rise, created by Brandon McFarland for
ArcSight (See Below), one I personally
watched, and was absolutely stunned by
it at the just concluded, simply outstanding Symantec Vision 2011 Conference at
the Caesar’s Palace. The very informative class that I viewed the video in was
titled: Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Be
sure and “Bookmark” this YouTube
Video in your browser (merely to be
used as a starting point only) and view
this fascinating, educational video (plus
other equally important Cyber Crime
videos) at:
(*) State of Cybercrime (ArcSight
Video 112010)
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ZqxAk4tSBUM
Websense 2010 Threat Report
(111110)
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=M2oJxo23zc&feature=related
Cartoon: Safeguarding Your Computer-Cyber Crime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=MbBYIPOPcgk&feature=related
The State of Cybercrime Jan
20, 2011 ... Cybercrime involving stolen
credit card numbers, money laundering,
botnets and other black-hat activities
is a huge business online.” - mashable.
com/2011/01/20/black-hat-hackingstats/
mous surfing,” so, borrowing from
another TV commercial, like Nike says,
let’s, “just do it!” or, better still, casting
my net for one last piece of fishy humor,
“just for the halibut?”
Due to the magnanimous generosity of the talented and exceptionally
knowledgeable professional Symantec
presenters in sharing their Symantec
Vision 2011 presentation slides with me,
I’ve extracted some of the most pertinent
Graphics from some of those PPT’s presented in the “Data Loss Prevention”
series of classes. (See those Graphics on
pages 15 through 19 for your edification
and enlightenment.)
Take it from one who
has actually “been there,
and done that,” if past history is to be our indicator,
then, it seems to be a fact
that the “collective, uncaring, naive,
you” won’t give a “Tinker’s Damn,” or
care “One Iota” about what is being said
here, or elsewhere, for that matter, about
the exploding threat of Cybercrime (i.e.,
Viruses, Trojans, ID Theft, Data Loss,
et al.) until you are personally slapped
hard in the face like I was, ex post facto
6
, with the reality that “You’ve Got
Mail!” and it’s not just the good kind
either. Know you full well that you all
are simply the main ingredient i.e.,
“the mince meat,” in the cybercriminals
“Mince Meat Pie” they’re cooking up for
you, as we speak. They’ll be eating you
for their dessert before you can clap your
hands together, Just remember this:
“you’ve been had,” um... sorry ‘bout
that, “... warned!”
There’s “oodles and gobs” of Security problems to report to you out there
just crying to
be heard, but
we have an axe
to grind herein,
and it’s not too
large of a leap
of faith over
to “anonymity and anony-
Looking Back a Couple of
Years Ago
From my BCM S-R of January
2009, Introduction to GhostSurf
Platinum Review 1 & 2 (page 4) I wrote:
“After seeing the eWeek Magazine The
Year in Review (December 15, 2008)
issue, I got to thinking - strange as that
may seem - that one ‘critical area’ of my
previous ... BCM ‘Security-Related’
Reports and Reviews I haven’t covered to date is ‘Surfing the Internet
Anonymously.’ What really brought
this front and center, however, was
an ‘unopened’ shrink-wrapped box
of Ghost Surf Pro that, somehow,
was just lying there on my side desk
simply crying for me to open up, and
‘slip silently [pun definitely intended]
into action?’
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“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, ‘There
is nothing as deceptive as an obvious
fact.’
With interest definitely piqued, I
decided to find out how far Ghost Surf
Pro was out of date; yikes vintage 2002.
But, it says it works for XP, so all isn’t
lost after all, I could still use it on my
‘main squeeze’ PC, that same malicious
XP I keep yapping about (HIAWC) 4.
“With a guilty conscious, I started
right away checking out the lineage
of Ghost Surf (~) revisions: ~Pro,
~2005, ~2006, ~2007, and ~Platinum. Pretty impressive! OK! I’m only
four (4) versions out of date. Not really
so bad, but certainly not all that good
(See Graphic below.)
“Then I started my deep Internet
search on a subject that I am familiar
with from having previously attended a
goodly number of DEFCON’s and Black
Hat Briefings, but had no experience
using first-, second-, or even, off-hand.
Whoa! This is actually turning out to be
quite fascinating. I should have done
all this way back in 2002 with Ghost
Surf Pro. ‘But better late than never,’
I murmured under my breath. And, it
most definitely deserves a Review all
of its own. Game on!”
Sliding in safely
to 2nd base with a
double off the wall
We ease our way
into the Windows
Vista/7 environment
this month with the
direct descendant of
GhostSurf 2006,
the smaller brother of GhostSurf
Platinum (please see my January
2009 BCM Review of the GhostSurf
Platinum 1 & 2 ), GhostSurf 6.
And now, we come to the only
“Security-Related” stretch I’ll be
making herein, and hereon,
“For the happiest life, days should
be rigorously planned, nights left open
to chance.” - Mignon McLaughlin.
Well, that may be true generally speaking, but, it most definitely is not true when it comes
to this month’s Security-Related
Report subject, which is:
Anonymous Internet Surfing
“Q. What do nude volleyball and
the Web have in common? A. Both offer the same amount of privacy.” - Old
Anonymizer.com Web Site
Point of Historical Interest. The
first Internet anonymizer was Anonymizer.com (See Note below and See
Graphics on pages20 and 21), developed
in 1997 by Lance Cottrell during studies
towards a Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the
University of California, San Diego. One
can immediately understand why he did
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it? Cottrell is a noted privacy advocate.
Note. it is still in existence today, but for a $79.99/yr subscription rate (See Graphics on pages
20 and 21).
All The Aspects of
Anonymous Surfing (~)
I’ve done this before but it
bears repeating here:
1) What is ~?; 2) Why would
you want to do ~?; 3) Who does ~?;
4) What is the cost of ~?; 5) How is
~ done?; 6) When is ~ done?; and
7) Where is ~ done?
1. What is ~? Definition from
WiseGeek
<www.wisegeek.com>:
“Anonymous
surfing allows
you to wander
the Internet
without leaving
any track of your
computer’s IP
(Internet Protocol) address.
This is accomplished via a
proxy service.
“When surfing the Web from the
privacy of your living room, den or office,
it may seem as if your movements online
are completely anonymous. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Everywhere
you go you can be tracked through your
IP address. The IP is a numerical value
that maps back to your ISP (Internet
Service Provider) and ultimately to your
specific computer. It is linked to your
computer by assignment to your login
username and password (See Graphics on pages 20 and 21).
“When you request a website by
clicking on a link or bookmark, your
computer sends its IP address to the
website along with the request for the
page. The destination server answers
by sending the requested page to your
return address. Your computer receives
the HTML data and the browser turns it
into a Graphic page you can view. In this
way, websites can keep track of every
page you view by logging your requests
along with your IP [address] [my
emphasis here].
“Anonymous
Surfing defeats this
ability by using a
go-between proxy
that ‘stands’ between the surfer’s computer and the
Web. This intermediate server, or proxy,
handles all of your computers requests
for you. Your requests go to the proxy,
which relays them to the Web. The website sends the requested pages back to
the proxy server, which then forwards
them to your computer. Websites can
only log the proxy’s IP address, not
yours. It’s rather like having a valet run
all of your errands for you, so that the
valet’s face is the only familiar face on
the Web.
2. Why would you want to do
~? There are many reasons why people
use web anonymizing services to surf
anonymously. They range all the way
from: to maximize their privacy, to
simple paranoia (protecting personal
data), to hiding browsing activities from
others (including parents, spouses, or
even other organizations), and/or to
bypass web blocking applications that
would prevent access to Web sites or
parts of sites that the user wants to visit.
However, (See more on Hacking
and Trojans in the current issue (#73) of
EyeSpy Magazine) it seems that those
web anonymizing services have flaws
that allow web sites to bypass those
anonymizers and retrieve information
about the user’s system (See vulnerabilities below).
By surfing the Web you are exposed
to hackers, bombarded by advertisements and subjected to spyware, malware, malicious Bots, and virtually
anything conceivable [See Symantec
Visions 2011 Above and See Graphics on pages 15 through 19]?
Everything you do and download
online can be watched. Hackers, Webmasters, any other users of your computer, and even your boss can see your
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surfing habits. Worst of all, you make
your personal and credit card information readily available, which can easily
lead to Identity (ID) theft, amongst other
chilling thoughts. It’s mostly all about
Money, you know?
It’s called cybercrime [See Symantec Visions 2011 Above and See
Graphics on pages 15 through 19.
Note. I’ll be reporting on KJB
Security Products in the very near
future. I met them (and a competitor of theirs) on the exhibit floor of
ISC West recently. They sell “Spy
Equipment” wholesale to John
Q. public, as if we didn’t already
have enough to worry about in our
privacy, Eh? Anonymity, anyone?
Bottom line. The obvious purpose
to anonymously surf the web is for your
own personal privacy, security, and
peace of mind. Take a look at what I
found out about my own PC before I
started all this research, and that’s not
all either. (See Graphic plus, now go
back to the Ghost Surf Platinum Graphic
from Salt Lake City and look at the bottom of the Graphic. Surprise!)
FYI Do this for yourself, too! You
can see some of the wide range of data
that web sites can read from your own
browser, as well, including your IP address and other identifying information,
at the following sites: IP Info <http://
www.lawrencegoetz.com/programs/
ipinfo/>; Network-Tools.com <http://
network-tools.com/analyze/>; and,
404 Research Lab Supersleuth <http://
www.plinko.net/404/supersleuth.asp>.
This is pretty scary stuff, folks!
3. Who does ~? Gizmo’s Allan
Marillier at <www.techsupportalert.
com/best-free-anonymous-surfingservice.htm> says, “The most obvious
anonymous browsing application for
most people is in internet cafes, on
public terminals, using wireless or even
wired access points away from home, or
in fact, on any PC including your own,
where you don’t want to leave traces
of your private surfing activities. Some
other browsing activity cleaners exist
that clear the cache, cookies, history
and other traces, [and] some are even
available as a standard in most browsers, but anonymous browsing goes a
step further. What attracts me is not so
much the privacy aspect, but rather the
security potential, because all of the anonymizing browser proxy based services
create a secure encrypted connection
between the PC you are using and the
first anonymizing proxy server. [They’d
grow old trying to figure that out.]
“This allows you to safely transmit
information with ... little risk of local
interception, making it ideal for surfing
on open Wi-Fi networks, or in hotels [,
or anywhere,] while traveling. Previously, secure surfing on such networks
required the use of private VPN networks, generally an option only available to corporate employees, those with
the available money to pay for it and
the technically savvy. . . . Whatever the
reasons anyone may have for using anonymizing browsing, commercial services
that offer anonymity are doing well, and
a number of both free and subscription
based browsing applications and services have become available.”
Remember the 1998 movie Enemy
of the State? Well, you darn well
should. If not, hustle out and get it at
the closest movie rental store, and then
imagine yourself in the place of the lawyer character Will Smith is portraying? It
can really happen, and it can happen
to you, and most definitely on the
web, as well!
4 What is the cost of ~? The
first consideration for us here probably
has to be the “Total Cost of Ownership
(TCOO). To fully appreciate the value
of anonymity online, consider the basics of web browsing. Pricing for
the service runs the gamut from
‘Free’ to $9.95-$13.95/month;
and purchased usually in the
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$30-$40 range with one year of
proxy server service. And ‘Free’ is
always good, right? But, in this case I’m
just not so sure, as are others with a lot
more experience in this matter than I.
For instance consider these questions:
1) Who exactly pays for the Bandwidth
you will use?; 2) The persons controlling
the proxies are in a ‘great’ position to
exploit you, if they so desire, and then
again, how do you know they aren’t?;
3) What services are offered by these
proxies, if any, and who provides the
Tech Support, if needed?; and, 4) How
do you know there isn’t a Trojan Horse,
or some such creature, embedded in the
software they use? Et cetera. Et cetera.
There are many free proxy programs
for anonymous surfing, but most rely on
using ‘unwilling’ proxy servers. These
are private business servers configured
incorrectly to leave open ports, which
anonymous surfing programs can exploit. Enthusiasts use port scanners
to check for unsecured networks, then
they post those addresses publicly on a
daily basis. When administrators realize
the breach, the port is normally closed.
Therefore, using manual anonymous
surfing programs means constantly perusing the available list of proxy servers,
and changing them accordingly. Purists are willing to do this, because they
believe it is the safest way to achieve
anonymous surfing.”
FYI Lifehacker at <http://lifehacker.biz/> has some “Free” anonymous surfing sites listed for you to check
out - If that’s the way you way to
be! ;-}
The alternative is to join a Web
service that will provide a toolbar to use
in place of the standard URL (Universal
Resource Locator) in your browser. You
can surf normally, using the toolbar address field to enter website addresses.
The toolbar calls upon its own server to
act as the proxy. Most sites that provide
anonymous surfing of this type charge
a monthly or yearly fee for the service,
while others offer free trials.
Certain websites do indeed offer
free anonymous surfing, but the client must surf from their website.
Moreover, the proxy handles requests
from paying clients before handling free
proxy requests, which can ultimately
make anonymous surfing veerryy
sloooww. But then, after all you get
what you pay for, don’t you? “Free” isn’t
really free; you have to pay the piper
someway/somehow (See pitfalls below).
5. How is ~ done? This is where
our Review of Ghost Surf 6 enters the
picture (See the actual Review immediately following this Security-Related
Report).
a. The leading web anonymizers
are simply web sites that proxy HTTP
requests.
Caveat. However, some features in
the leading browsers allow remote web
sites to collect this information about
you and your PC “even when a page
is accessed using anonymizers” (See
Graphics on pages 20 and 21). For
example, using JavaScript, a remote site
can retrieve the local machine’s IP address and send it to the remote server.
Also, using special HTML tags (like the
META tag’s REFRESH property (See
Symantec Vision 2011 Above and
See Graphics on pages 15 through
19) can silently redirect the browser to
the “original site,” bypassing the anonymizer (without the user’s knowledge).
These issues basically render the anonymizers ineffective, since they do not
really hide information from a remote
site. [See Symantec Vision 2011
Conference Above and See Graphics on pages 15 through 19].
b. In the meantime, all users’ identities are verified instantly with servers based on a unique machine fingerprint that each computer has.
Caveat. From this point on, all
subsequent user activity from their
original location can be traced directly
back to that location, albeit their home
(or office), or even the network that is
connecting to any local, or national ISP,
on their behalf.
c. After typing in the URL of the
desired web site, for example, our
imaginary <www.somewhere.com>,
the anonymizer will retrieve and display
the HTML page using the anonymizer’s
server instead of the client’s machine.
In this case, the remote server knows
nothing about the client’s machine, only
what’s coming from the anonymizer’s
server.
d. Ever wonder how web sites
seem to know so much about users? Well, without an anonymizer server shielding them, once a user is online,
everything they do is recorded
and stored in various ways. For
example, within moments of logging
online, packets of data are dumped
back into the user’s cache, cookies are
planted, and trails are laid that connect
the dots from their starting and ending
points online.
e. At the end of each browsing session, each and every site they visited has
recorded where they had been before
they arrived, what they did at that site,
how long they stayed, and what they
did next. And then, simply because of
this record about their surfing activities,
the very next time they go online, any
previously visited site(s) will know that
they’ve returned, and consequently, can
tailor their advertisements directly toward the
user, or simply
bombard them
with junk, if they
choose to do so.
BTW Question. Have you ever
wondered how some of those sexually explicit images just up and
appear on your browser for no
reason, or on the very next time
you go surfing?
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Answer. Well, you probably
just accidentally hit that porno
web site along the way, then too,
or maybe you were directed there
without you ever knowing how it
happened, right (See Graphics on
pages 15 through 12)? Well, that’s
what this Security-Related Report
is trying to get across to you, “Stuff
happens,” you know. Well, at least
that’s what the bumper stickers/
license plates tell us, anyway! ;-}
6. When is ~ done? It’s done
all the time. And you’ll be doing it too,
after you’ve once read the Ghost Surf 6
Review, I’m sure. Meanwhile, here’s
some sound advice we all should take to
heart. It comes from Jim Rjindael.
FYI. Our current Encryption standard, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Algorithm (Rjindael), is
based upon, and named for this man’s
work. “Sit you up and take heed,”
as Yoda would implore us to do.
Jim says, “I have worked in IT
security for nearly 20 years and have
seen how ‘experts’ deal with security.
I don’t trust anyone with my information or details. As such I write under
the awful but recognizable [sic, he’s
English] corruption of the magnificent
cipher developed by Joan Daemen and
Vincent Rijmen. The Internet is an information gold mine - just make [sure]
your personal details aren’t included.
Our governments, identity thieves and
all sorts of people with different agenda
are watching us[, just] make sure you
stay low key online!” - Jim Rjindael EzineArticles.com Expert.
Note. Jim has written 24 articles on Anonymous Surfing, see
them all at: <http://ezinearticles.
com/?expert=Jim_Rjindael>
Also Note FYI. Information on the
AES algorithm (Rjindael) is available,
including test values, intellectual property (IP) statements, and specifications.
Those who are interested in the AES
specification (i.e., the actual standard)
should refer to the FIPS 197. You can
also do a search for “Jim Rjindael”.
A point of reference. My U.S.
patented DYCRAV AutoEnc Security Suite Application (See my
August 2006 BCM Review 1 & 2)
uses the AES 256-bit Encryption
Algorithm (Rjindael) to secure the
Drag and Drop (DnD), Dual-layer,
Compressed and Encrypted file(s).
7. Where is ~ done? Again we
hear from Jim Rjindael. “Real
Anonymous Internet Surfing
takes some Effort. There are many
people out [there working very hard]
to trap our data and surfing patterns,
[such as] hackers, identity thieves,
spammer[s] and even our Governments
(See Graphics on pages 20 and 21).
Just searching for a few free anonymous
proxies on the Internet is unlikely to
be a great experience. Even if you are
lucky enough to avoid the proxies that
have been deliberately set up to trap the
thrifty anonymous surfer by some Eastern European Identity thieves, you may
find one of the servers which has been
setup to track your surfing and then send
you a deluge of targeted SPAM. [See
Symantec Visions 2011 above]
“Those who find a clean anonymous
proxy[,] which does its job[,] will eventually probably give up using it because it
will be incredibly slow. All the time your
every visit to every website will be logged
and recorded at your local ISP - along
with your emails backed up on tape and
left there for who knows to see.
“If you really want to have anony-
mous Internet surfing - you need a fast
secure anonymous proxy, the facility
to switch proxies seamlessly with no
effort [and], all your web traffic needs
to be encrypted from the client and
back again. You will then be completely
anonymous online and your ISP logs will
be completely secure and unreadable to
anyone just like mine!” - Jim Rjindael,
Anonymous Internet Surfing - The
Art of Surfing in Secret
Back to Surfing Basics.
Say What?
Before we leave the subject of introductory “safe surfing,” with tongue
in check, we see that truth is indeed
stranger than fiction. Point in fact: U.S.
Adults Choosing Internet Over
Sex. “Nearly half of the women
aged 18 to 44 surveyed, or 46%,
said they would rather go without
sex for two weeks than give up the
Internet for the same amount of
time. . . . Some 30% of the male
respondents said the same. . . .
The November poll, . . . found
that most adults consider the Internet essential to daily life in the
current economic downturn. . . .
Finally, more than nine out of 10
adults said the Internet has improved at least one aspect of their
lives. Within this group, the most
popular improvements included
staying in touch with friends and
family and being able to shop more
effectively.” - Antone Gonsalves,
InformationWeek (December 15,
2008)
If what Gonsalves reports can truly be believed, then one can certainly
understand why Anonymous web
surfing might be high on that 46% group
of women’s list of priorities. Makes immanent sense to me, as it allows a user to
visit Web sites without allowing anyone
to gather information about which sites
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der about their “SAFE surfing”
habits though (See Graphics on
pages 20 and 21)?
A. N. Onymous claimed: “Liberals
are very broad-minded; they are always
willing to give careful consideration to
both sides of the same side.”
As we come to a close on this
S-R edition, I’d like point out that
Tenebril’s GhostMyMail (either
Standalone or in GhostSurf Platinum)
is yet another method of maintaining
“anonymity” out there in the all-to-real,
big, bad Internet world (More on this
and other anonymous programs will
be covered in Review immediately
following). GhostMyMail provides
Spam Prevention & Identity Protection
via e-mails. For instance, you can:
stop spam by hiding your real email
address; prevent scammers and viruses
from reaching your inbox; and, create
temporary, anonymous email accounts
quickly. “The more you shop, surf, or
socialize online, the more you risk getting a lot of spam, but you can stay ahead
of the spammers by using a temporary,
anonymous email address every time
you shop or chat.,” states Tenebril.
Flash! This Just In. . .
Consumer Reports, Issue June
2011, just arrived at our mail box. At
the present time I plan on this being
the basis for next month’s main topic of
coverage for my next Security-Related
Report, it’s that important, and is it
current. The cover (see Graphic) says,
“Your Security: 25 things cops & crooks
say you’re doing wrong.” But, don’t wait
for me, get over to your local library and
get a head start on protecting your own
security.
Report 1 & 2 (August
2008); Security
News n Views Part
2 Report 1 & 2 (September 2008); and,
Security News n
Views Part 3 Report 1 & 2 (November
2008).
And, it’s also
time to bid you a
fond adios/adieu/
goodbye, and point
you in the direction
of the Ghost Surf 6
Review, which appears on the very
next page. Enjoy!
Bon Chance!
It’s time now with a eye on the future to respectfully remind you to surf
safely and for additional security information please refer to the May 2008
BCM Security-Related News and Views
101 Report 1 & 2, as well as, all the
other Security-Related Reports 1 & 2
in the series I’ve been sharing with
you here over the years in BCM.
Note. I invite you to pay particular attention to the 2008 series:
Encryption -What’s That Report 1
&2
(July 2008); Encryption - Why
Footnotes
1
If you are reading this Review from
directly off of an Internet search, you are
seeing it in HTML (or
text) format. Yuk!
There’s No Graphics there! To see all
the beautiful Graphics
in this Review - the
ones that we’ve worked
so very hard to entertain you with - you
will need to follow the
procedures outlined
in Footnote 2 below.
Enjoy! Again, our
web page (www.
ucs.org).
2
See the actual
Reports/Reviews
in the Blue Chips
Magazine (BCM)
Archives (i.e., begin
search on left-hand
side of web page) at
(www.ucs.org).
Note. Always
choose the center
option, i.e., PDF
format for its beauty.
3
Feature(s)
precisely identified as reason(s)
for designating this
Review/Report as
“Security-Related.”
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In this case, everything.
4
My Hard Earned Byline: Happiness Is A Working Computer
(HIAWC).
5
Kellogg’s Nut & Honey Cereal
of the 80’s and early 90’s TV Commercial fame; “What are you eating? Nut ‘n Honey!
ex post facto Adj. Formulated,
enacted, or operating retroactively. Used
especially of a law.
[Latin ex postfact : ex, from + postfact, ablative of postfactum, that which
is done afterward.]
Source: The American Heritage
Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by
Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated
in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin
Company. All rights reserved.
6
Thesaurus
Adj. 1. ex post facto - affecting
things past; “retroactive tax increase”;
“an ex-post-facto law”; “retro pay”
retro, retroactive, retrospective concerned with or related to the past;
“retrospective self-justification”
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton
University, Farlex Inc.
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GhostSurf 6
Windows Review
Affordable Anonymity on the Internet
Reviewed by Don Nendell
Manufacturer:
Process Software
959 Concord Street
Framingham, MA 01701
Phone: (800) 722-7770 (508) 879-6994
FAX: (508) 879-0042
e-mail: [email protected]
Tech Support:
Hours of operation: 8:30 A.m. to 7:00
P.M. EST
E-mail support is available 24/7. You can
use their support web page to send your question
to Tenebril’s customer service representatives. You
will receive a response ASAP by e-mail.
Phone Support is available for purchase. If
you purchase phone support, the support phone
number will be in your confirmation e-mail.
System requirements:
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 SP4/XP SP2/Vista (32 bit only)
Minimum System Requirements:
CPU: 300 MHz or better
256 MB RAM
80 MB hard disk space
Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
Internet connection (for automatic updates)
Simple Description:
Anonymous Internet connections that allow
you to “Surf the Internet Invisibly, Securely and
Affordably”
Where to purchase:
GhostSurf 6 is available immediately
on the Internet at <www.tenebril.com>,
as well as from the extensive network of
Tenebril Authorized Resellers. GhostSurf
6 is also sold through all major electronics
retailers.
Pricing:
GhostSurf 6 with 1-Year Updates $29.95
(Backup Disc $9.99 & Extended Download Service $5.99)
2-user license: $49.95
5-user license: $119.95
10-user license: $229.85
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Surf Anonymously
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About GhostSurf 6.0
Overview: Be invisible on the Internet. Web
sites, advertisers, hackers, even snooping friends
and family can easily watch your Web surfing.
Information you type into Web sites, including
your name, address and credit card number is
often sent unprotected and can be read by others
as it travels over the Web. Hackers can use your IP
address to launch attacks against your computer,
causing damage or allowing theft of your data. At
the same time, your PC automatically collects and
stores information about your online activities.
This data is visible to anyone with access to your
machine. GhostSurf 6.0 (Six-O) is the answer.
GhostSurf 6.0 provides a secure and
anonymous Internet connection to let you surf
the Web invisibly. It works with all Web browsers,
and also supports instant messengers, newsgroups
feeds and popular chat programs.
Features: Surf Anonymously - With
a simple click, GhostSurf ensures your privacy
and shields your computer and IP address from a
variety of Internet threats. An intuitive slider bar
makes choosing your privacy settings a breeze.
Prevent Identity Theft - GhostSurf protects you from criminals out to steal your identity.
GhostSurf masks your IP and keeps you invisible
on the Internet. An IP address can convey a lot
of information about you, even who you are and
where you live.
Encrypt Your Data - Three levels of private
surfing allow you to control what information
leaves your computer and who gets to see it. At
the highest level, browsing is fully-encrypted-your
surfing is completely invisible no matter where you
go on the Web. Every page you visit, every search
you do, even every instant message you send is
protected by strong encryption.
Prolog
Red Skelton, famed comedian (July
18, 1913 - September 17, 1997), said, “All
men make mistakes, but married men
find out about them sooner.”
Ergo, CYA Disclaimer: No
matter how this looks to all of
you, I am not, repeat NOT, in the
habit of reading any “Advice to
the Troubled/Lovelorn” columns.
But, this particular piece was
just sitting there on the Salt Lake
Tribune Comic Section right next
to my JUMBLE PUZZLE, as “Big
As Life,” and, needless to say, I
just couldn’t pass it up, you see?
Anyway, being very apropos to
our Review subject herein, plus it
being a real first for me, as well,
here it is FYI.
“While Im away, readers give the
advice” - Carolyn Hax, Salt Lake Tribune Advice Column Writer, Salt Lake
Tribune, 12/26/08, p.E14. Privacy is
dead in the electronic world. On spying on teenagers. The sooner that
children [ALL THE PEOPLE (my
emphasis here)] learn that electronic
communications are not private, the better they will be. Teenagers, and for that
matter, many adults, seem to think that
their electronic communications can
remain private. Messages (and photos)
on Facebook, MySpace, e-mail, iChat
and cell phones are not private. They
are easily retrieved, by those who are not
particularly technologically savvy and by
those who may not have your children’s
[OR THE PEOPLE’S (my emphasis
here)] best interests at heart. Online
messages may easily be viewed by people
other than the intended recipient. These
messages can live forever in cyberspace.
. . . There is no such thing as respecting
electronic boundaries. The newspaper
is filled with stories of people who went
to jail because they failed to realize that
electronic communications are almost
impossible to erase completely. - A
Mother Who Is Weary of Fighting This
Battle, Among Others. . .”
The Concern Is?
There are many, and varied, good
reasons people have for wanting to surf
anonymously. They run the gamut. They
range from outright simple paranoia
of protecting personal data, to hiding
Internet browsing activities from anyone and everyone, which may include
parents, spouses, or other persons and/
or organizations. Simply stated, they
want anonymity, which is defined as
follows:
Wordnet:
The noun has one meaning: the
state of being anonymous
Synonym: namelessness
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Wikipedia:
Anonymity is derived from a
Greek word meaning “without a name”
or “namelessness”. In colloquial use, the
term typically refers to a person, and
often means that the personal identity,
or personally identifiable information of
that person is not known.
Noun. anonymity (countable and
uncountable; plural anonymities)
1. (uncountable) The quality or
state of being anonymous; anonymousness.
2. (countable) That which is
anonymous.
Verb. to anonymize (third-person
singular; simple present anonymizes;
present participle anonymizing; simple
past and past participle anonymized)
1. (transitive) To render anonymous.
Adjective. anonymous
1. Wanting a name; not named and
determined, as an animal not assigned
to any species.
2. Without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or
the like: as an anonymous pamphlet; an
anonymous benefactor; an anonymous
subscription.
3. Of unknown name; whose name
is withheld: as, an anonymous author.
Synonyms. nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed
So, What’s It All About, Alfie?
By surfing the Web you are exposed
to hackers, bombarded by advertisements and subjected to spyware, malware, Trojans, BOTS, and a whole host
of other nefarious “Bad Guys!” Everything you do and download while you
are surfing the Internet, can be watched.
Hackers, Webmasters, and even your
boss, whomever that may be, plus others
who might access your computer, can
easily see your surfing habits.
Worst case scenario. Your personal
data (albeit medical, financial, credit
card information, et al.), is most definitely easily readable. To which Tenebril
responds, “Since anti-virus and firewall
programs do not adequately address
these issues, the obvious answer has to
be GhostSurf 6.0 (Six-O) or GhostSurf Platinum (GSP). GhostSurf
provides a secure surfing experience by
protecting your privacy and preventing damaging Internet threats from
infecting your PC. GhostSurf ensures
your safety online with an anonymous,
encrypted Internet connection.... [It
can accomplish this because] GhostSurf provides not only the ability for
anonymous surfing through anonymous
proxy[,] but gives you the option to surf
anonymously with [an] encrypted internet connection. . . . With GhostSurf,
you’re invisible and in control online.”
OK! OK!
Before GS 6.0 (Six-O)
May I respectfully suggest that at
this juncture you refer to my previous
Introduction to GhostSurf 6.0
Report (See pg. 4 of this BCM 1 & 2
issue) for a more complete rundown
on Anonymous Web surfing. But, as a
quick refresher, it goes something like
this: 1) Services that provide anonymity
disable pop-up windows and cookies
and conceal the visitors IP address;
2) These services typically use a proxy
server to process each HTTP request;
3) When the user requests a Web page
by clicking a hyperlink or typing a URL
into their browser, the service retrieves
and displays the information using its
own server; and, 4) The remote server
(where the requested Web page resides)
receives information about the anonymous Web surfing service in place of
the users information. Which brings
us to. . . .
GhostSurf Six-O,
Front and Center!
Sir, Yes Sir!
[We listen in on a tense dialog
between Top Sergeant and Six-O in
the Forward Staging Area:]
Top: Six-O, the General has
decided not to send you out into
the field, just yet. He is sending
your bigger, more experienced
cousin, Platinum, on this dangerous mission.
Six-O: But Sir, wha...?
Top: You’re a better soldier
than that, Six-O, you know better
than to ever question a General’s
orders?
Six-O: Sir! Yes sir!
Top: By now you know that the
Group’s policy is: “...Ours is not to
reason why, ours is but to do and
die!” 5
Six-O: Sir! Yes sir!
Top: Return to the training
area, soldier... Dismissed!
Six-O: Sir! Yes sir!
Top: (Under his breath): “Nolite te bastardes carborun-dorum,
Six-O!” 6
Six-O: (Under his breath): You
can count on it, Sarge.
In Conclusion
Sorry, but since Six-O, I mean,
GhostSurf 6.0, is not going on
the mission, at this time, we will
not be critiquing his services as
a consequence. Please refer to
my BCM Review of GhostSurf 5.5
(Platinum) in the BCM January
2009 issue 1 & 2.
FYI. GhostSurf 5.5 (Platinum)
is the right tool, um.. man for the
job, bar none. Good hunting,
Before we go, I wonder, “What
if?” I wonder, would we even have that
old fable to share with our children if
Little Red Riding Hood would have
been invisible to the “Big Bad Wolf”
by being shielded with a GhostSurf
Platinum-like “Ghillie suit?” Well,
it’s a thought?
Because now, we can add surfing
anonymously to our layered defense
plan, GhostSurf Platinum, to be
precise.
Just remember, HIAWC 4, especially an invisible one running
GhostSurf Platinum. Get it today.
You’ll be ever thankful for the advice, and be greatly relieved when
you do. Amen!
Ciao!
“If some day you’re not feeling well,
you should remember some little thing I
have said or done and if it brings a smile
to your face or a chuckle to your heart
then my purpose as a clown has been
fulfilled.” - Red Skelton
Footnotes
1
If you are reading this
Review from directly off of
an Internet search, you are
seeing it in HTML (or text)
format. Yuk! There’s No
Graphics there! To see all
the beautiful Graphics in this
Review - the ones that we’ve
worked so very hard to entertain you with - you will need to
follow the procedures outlined
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in Footnote 2 below. Enjoy! Again,
our web page (www.ucs.org).
2
See the actual Reports/Reviews
in the Blue Chips Magazine (BCM)
Archives (i.e., begin search on lefthand side of web page) at (www.
ucs.org).
Note. Always choose the center option, i.e., PDF format for its
beauty.
3
Feature(s) precisely identified as reason(s) for designating
this Review/Report as “SecurityRelated.” In this case, everything.
4
My Hard Earned Byline: Happiness Is A Working Computer
(HIAWC).
5.
“ Ours is not to reason why ...”,
Sarage, is quoting from Tennyson’s(*)
poem The Charge of the Light Brigade.
The line ‘Ours is not to reason why, ours
but to do and die’ speaks of the removal
of all choice over one’s fate (the painting of the Charge of the Light Brigade
is by Caton Woodville) Source: Book
Drum, pg. 188.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
was Poet Laureate from 1850 to his
death, the longest serving in that post
during Queen Victoria’s reign. His most
famous works include The Charge of
the Light Brigade and In Memoriam
A.H.H.
6.
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” (“Don’t let the bastards
grind you down.”) The mock-Latin
phrase originates from World War Two.
It is also the first line of the unofficial
school song of Harvard University, and
has been popular with generations of
students there. Since the story is set in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, the location
of Harvard, this is significant. Source:
Book Drum, pg. 188
Even the Blue
Oracle Can’t Create
New Members.
It’s up to YOU to
Bring Them to Our
Meetings.
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