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Book Update: Privacy Harbor Private Email Service No Longer Available

On page 204 of the book (chapter 15 for Kindle readers), the email service Privacy Harbor is listed as one of the recommended secure mail services. Unfortunately, the service closed down and is no longer available.

However, I still recommend:

HushMail which has been in business since 1999, uses strong encryption and is considered a [...]

Book Update: VPN Recommendation

 

The book, ‘Complete Guide to Internet Privacy, Anonymity & Privacy’ (or COGIPAS for short) was published over a year ago and while the vast majority of its contents continue to remain valid to this day, I would like to update readers on my recommended VPN.

At pp. 136-138, 158 and 255 of the printed [...]

The Virtual Private Network (VPN) I Use

Well, actually I use two VPNs on a regular basis.

One of the VPN services I use almost daily was recommended in the book. It’s SecureTunnel.com. I have been a paying customer of this service for more than two years. I use it primarily for web surfing and peer-to-peer torrent downloading  (ie, as a SOCKS5 [...]

Book Update: Renaming the Windows Administrator Account (Chapter 7)

A reader made us aware that with Home Premium versions of Windows 7, you may not be able to create a new User account named Administrator. The instructions and screenshots in chapter 7 of the book were done with Windows 7 Ultimate, not Home Premium. Following those instructions with Windows 7 Home Premium may result [...]