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COVERT BROWSING
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who has had dealings with the "Green Slime" (Military and civilian intelligence services) that they take a great deal of interest in other people's secrets.
There are laws in most western democracies which limit the power of authorities to probe into people's lives. However, when the spectre of "National Security" is invoked, all bets are off.
This insatiable need to snoop on ordinary citizens is not confined to government. Intelligence services of various kinds operate in the private sector, from industrial espionage experts to private detective agencies. Some of the best are on the Internet.
If you don't believe this statement, here's a little demonstration for you. Click here - and brace yourself for a rather nasty surprise. (This link will open a new browser window. Close it when you've recovered from what you're about to read and return here.)
Okay, you now know - unless your security is very good indeed - that everything you do on the Net can be monitored. Trust me, it is monitored, in the name of business, sales, security, customer relations and other less attractive reasons.
If you are operating your computer from home or the office, the page you just read may even have given your address!
Whether it did or not, the point is made - a simple program told you all that it did about yourself and your browsing - can you imagine what a sophisticated information-collecting program could do?
That's why when you sneaked a look inside a porn site but didn't give it any information, you started to receive email solicitations from all sorts of porn sites.
Because without even knowing it, you gave them everything they needed for their "potential customer!" list and worse, they made a few pennies by selling your personal details to other porn sites.
If this bothers you, there is a remedy. You can use an anonymous (or "privacy") browser. For their protection, many people maintain a cloak of anonymity around their lives; whether SAS troopers on terrorist hit lists, or people writing in Usenet newsgroups who don't want their bosses to know they're gay, or anti-World Trade Organization, or whatever the reason.
I use a very effective privacy browser which is child's play to operate and leaves not a single detail about myself behind. I put it first on the list below because I think it's the best on the market and believe me, I really shopped around because I wanted total security for myself and my family. However, in the interests of fairness I've included the major competitors for you to check to see what you think.
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SIEGESOFT
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ANONYMIZER
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FREEDOM
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PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY
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