underground security

THE DANGERS OF METADATA BY: DIzzIE [antikopyright 2008] This is the third Underground Security Paper designed to further empower you to give yourself some semblance of electronic privacy. If you haven't done so, go read over USP no. 1: Encrypting your Instant Messaging Conversations (http://forum.rorta.net/showthread.php?t=576) and no. 2: Encrypting Email Communiques (http://forum.rorta.net/showthread.php?t=1273). What is metadata? To put it bluntly, metadata is hidden data that can fuck you over. Fuck you over real hard and rough like, savvy? Often defined as "data about data," metadata is information about a...

Encrypting Email Communiques v 1.0 By: DIzzIE [antikopyright 2007] This is the second Underground Security Paper designed to further empower you to give yourself some semblance of electronic privacy. If you haven't done so, go read over USP no. 1: Encrypting your Instant Messaging Conversations (http://forum.rorta.net/showthread.php?t=576). And yes, I'm well aware that there are a few other guides on encrypting emails already out there, but they are either outdated or don't mention all of the shit that I want to mention. So here we go, first we'll go over a few ways to encrypt emails if you have steady access ...

Encrypting Instant Messaging Conversations v1.0 By : DIzzIE [antikopyright 2006] Whenever you talk online with your instant messaging (IM) client of choice, your conversations can be, and in all probability are, recorded, monitored, and read. Any data which travels over a network can be viewed using programs known as packet sniffers, with some specially crafted programs, such as IM Sniffer or AIM Sniff, designed exclusively to capture IM communications. No matter how pathetically dull your treacherous life is, chances are someone is bored enough to fuck with it. What will soon follow is a list of various programs and plugins which you ca...