Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
How to protect your special files from prying eyes
You don't need to have illegal files in your computer to use special methods for hiding your files. Everybody needs some privacy. Here are some easy to implement methods to protect your files from outsiders:
1. Change file extension to a different format (txt|jpg to daa|zip|jpg etc.)
2. If it is a text file use a text encryption program.
3. Write text documents with programs that have encryption features. (MS Office Word, Open Office, Adobe Acrobat)
4. Use password when archiving with WinRAR, WinZip, WinUHA, 7Zip etc..
5. Burn your file as an image file (*.nrg,*.daa ; it is better if it is rather less popular format)
6. Use PowerISO to make password protected image file.
7. Use TrueCrypt to encrypt entire volume or just folders.
8. Use My LockBox to assign password to a folder.
9. Hide your file using file properties.
10. Use Free Hide Folder to hide and protect your files and folders with password.
11. Turn your secret plain text file into a password-protected .exe file with fSekrit.
12. Use stenography to store|send your sensitive data. For example you can use 4T Hit Mail for sending mails, this application hides your sensitive text in an image file
13. Change file/folder image with commonly known Windows system file images. (pagefile.sys, msdos.sys etc.)
14. Encrypt your file to password protected exe file with Ashampoo WinOptimizer.
15. Use dsCrypt ot drag and drop encrypt your file.
16. Rename the folder you want to be hidden by while pressing ALT type "0160", release ALT and press ENTER, then right-click in and select “properties” select the tab “customize” and select “change icon” scroll along and you should a few blank spaces click on any one and click ok. When you have saved the settings the folder will be invisible to hide all your personal files.
Remember it is always better if you use rather unknown formats.
You can use more than one method
Example
1. Write a text
2. Encrypt the text
3. Encrypt the file
4. Make password protected archive with file
5. Change file extension to *.xyz
6. Make a password protected image file
Yahoo is new Big Brother
Online privacy became the big issue of our generation especially after the technological trend of being online everywhere and every time. It's quite understandable that every government wants to have all the information it can get about its citizens for political, economical and most importantly safety reasons. Likewise companies want to access information about its customers so that they can know more about their market. And its no different for Yahoo.
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Yahoo Group Users - Attention, I received this information on a discussion list for a master mind group I'm a member of. If you, like millions of others, use Yahoo Groups to connect with clients, classes or other discussion groups, you may want to read this:
Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you are going (similar to cookies.) Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy
statement:
1. http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
2. About half-way down the page, in the section on Cookies, you will see a link that says Web Beacons. Click on the phrase "Web Beacons".
3. That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network". In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link which will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.
4. Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.[Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on that page there is also a "Cancel Opt-out" button which, if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. It appears after you have hit the opt-out button so is very confusing.
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