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Topic: Web Services
m.j
says:
I'm actually a trilightzone client and i love their services. I think both organisations have the same aim, to protect the privacy of their clients. Hope this very short note is useful to anyone looking for a good service.
Henry Dupriox
says:
The best way to protect privacy is to make sure there are no traces to follow. Although this is basically impossible it is good if one can give "them" a good run for their money. I do not believe that a u.s based company like anonymizer which does also business with the u.s government can be a neutral party for the privacy seeking individual.
If i read the article correctly then Hal Roberts says if you're not a multi-million business and have an expensive building then you cannot be reliable. I'm surprised that some one from Harvard would draw such conclusion and clearly biased. Why would a smaller outfit be less better than a giant who looks at people as if they were a bunch of barcodes ? A giant which loves to log people forever if not stopped.
Anyone thought that it might be better not to have such a clear physical presence in a country like the u.s ? Like a sitting duck just waiting for a raid on their systems and interrogations of staff ?
For some reason i get a bitter taste as i remember the story of e-gold. How can any u.s based company survive all the new privacy invading laws if it does not cooperate already ?
Personally i believe that even anonymizer can be a good choice, it all depends on the situation of the client in need. For the rest i see some good points in favour of trilightzone, they make it hard to get to them, they spread their infrastructure over multiple jurisdictions, seem to have a decentralized team of people ...
I'm running my own company which develops security software, in our daily operations these discussions and needs are always at the forefront. Especially if our projects include monitoring flows of data which are highly sensitive.
Henry
Seymour Uphill
says:
Hello,
I have to chime in: privacy companies do add one or more layers of additional protection. Your internet activities are cloaked, so that profiling your habit is not possible. If everybody would know how so called free open source projects as in firefox or thunderbird are really financed (yes... google pays them, so they install by default the google search box), then everybody would use a proxy. And i prefer the paid for ones, as they are fast and reliable. My policy even includes chaining different companies, so I can play a geo arbitrage. Companies with good experiences I used (and still use) are trilightzone.org, www.privacy.li, cotze.net and micropipe.net
Seymour
John Quincy Adams
says:
Despite what this author believes in, I still trust my privacy and anonymity through the IAPS Security Store because they've never steered me wrong and have a wide range of available services: http://www.intl-alliance.com/store
Nick
says
in response to John Quincy Adams:
I have to say IAPS is not a good example of a company in this industry. Their solution has massive issues staying online, their process of informing their customers is basically not to and when you do finally get an answer from their support guys it tends to be curt, condescending and bordering on rude at times.
I tried to cancel my contract with them and they basically told me to **** off and won't give me a refund.
Plenty of other guys out there providing the same service. Look around is my advice or pray you don't have an issue that needs their help.
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I don't know about TrilightZone but Anonymizer does no logging.. and from experience, I know they cannot even give information if subpoenaed.