How about the use of VPN? My router has a VPN option since I had changed
its firmware, but I don't know if it has acceptable security or if it could
compare to subscription based VPN services. I haven't played around with it
yet.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Brian Baquiran <[email protected]>wrote:

> We've all heard the horror stories of clueless IT departments instructing
> their users to use Tor for "security".
>
> Tor only offers anonymity, provided you don't send any identifying
> information through it. Anyone can run a Tor node and sniff the data going
> through it. (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents/
> )
>
> So don't use Tor to log in to your corporate email or FB.
>
> (I assume most of you know this stuff already, but it needed to be said.)
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Holden Hao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The law would increase the use of encryption.
>>>
>>
>> And also popularize the use of distributed proxies such as TOR.
>>
>>  https://www.torproject.org/
>>
>>
>>
>> Holden
>>
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