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2018/03/23 By Alex 1 Comment

Ab-Solution Host List for Asus Merlin Builds

ab-solution

This is my custom hosts lists for Ab-Solution. It includes Crazy Max‘s windows spying blocklists, which block a lot of Windows spying at router level, as well as various ad, spam, and malware lists. Ab-Solution will update these lists once a week and you can set it and forget it. This has been tested for […]

Filed Under: Privacy, Security, Usability Tagged With: asus, merlin

2013/12/23 By Alex Leave a Comment

Use Adaway as an Android IP Filter / Blocklist

Android

I spent some time trying to find an acceptable ipfilter for Android and had almost hit a wall. Repeated suggestions of Peerblock were unacceptable as the application is buggy and has not seen development in some months.

Filed Under: Mobile, Privacy Tagged With: Android

2012/09/28 By Alex Leave a Comment

Updates to Thunderbird and Firefox Pro Packs

Updates have been made to both the Firefox Pro Pack and the Thunderbird Pro Pack with those made to Firefox being more significant. Look below for the new additions or click through, above, for the full package. The update for Firefox’s pack now has the additions of: Muter – mutes all Firefox content. Adblock Plus […]

Filed Under: News, Privacy, Security Tagged With: firefox, thunderbird

2012/06/13 By Alex 29 Comments

Torrent Ninja Guide – Stay Anonymous

Tixati Guide

We’ve covered torrent privacy back in 2009, right before Windows 7 came out. At that time we helped you get peer guardian running on the release candidate and provided an alternative method by using utorrent’s ipfilter.dat. We’re back with an updated and superior alternative for both utorrent, peer guardian, and peerblock. You might need to […]

Filed Under: Privacy, Security Tagged With: Torrent

2011/10/01 By Alex 1 Comment

Data Retention Periods of Major Cell Service Providers

Dept of Justice

This document, obtained by the ACLU, details data retention policies of the five major US cellphone carriers. The table below is a copy of the original PDF with some info removed, you can see the original at this link. Verizon T-Mobile AT&T / Cingular Sprint Nextel Virgin Mobile Subscriber Information Post Paid 3-5 Yrs 5 […]

Filed Under: Mobile, News, Privacy, Security Tagged With: Android

2010/09/08 By Alex Leave a Comment

Removing Factory Apps from Android Phone

Android

  UPDATE: You can just use Root Explorer. So I recently obtained a G1 which I flashed to Cyanogen 6.0, a problem it runs in to is a lack of ram: background processes like facebook and twitter and DSP manager don’t leave much room to breathe… But, there’s a way to remove them… you need […]

Filed Under: Mobile, Privacy, Security Tagged With: Android

2010/06/19 By Alex Leave a Comment

Remove Google Web History for better privacy

Google’s web history tracks your usage data. It gives you a choice to delete certain searches, it also gives your mom, the police, and hackers an ability to explore this diary. Whether they use it for blackmail or prosecution, its not good for YOU.

Filed Under: Google, Privacy, Security

2009/06/02 By Alex 23 Comments

PeerGuardian PG alternative, ipfilter + utorrent, ipfilter.dat

Utorrent

Whether you are looking for an alternative to PG2 because it fails to function properly, or simply looking to cut down the number of processes you are running – the information here is for you.

It is possible to block ip-ranges with utorrent’s built in ipfiltering system.

Filed Under: Privacy, Security Tagged With: Torrent

2009/05/08 By Alex 42 Comments

Peer Guardian 2 with Windows 7 pgfilter.sys 64

PG2 will not work out of the box, and the information provided on PG2’s instruction page is outdated. This is a step-by-step guide to get pg2 working with Win7 RC x64.

Filed Under: Privacy, Security Tagged With: Torrent

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