C I A non-profit venture capital company

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I have to agree with Quentin on this one.
I have been using the SafeWeb portal (www.safeweb.com) for a few weeks and
it certainly seems to do what it sayd - SSL encrypted traffic between you
and the safeweb servers to whatever site you are viewing.   Sure, they may
be logging it but who cares ?   I have to say it does a very good job of
circumventing any local policies in place, ie URL content filtering and the
like, as well as stopping those pesky security types from watching where you
surf during working hours ;-)
If I truly wanted to remain anonymous then I wouldn't use any 3rd party
resource unless I had control over them.   Much easier to use someone elses
laptop (freely available in Tapas bars and Taxis), a cloned mobile(s) and a
dozen throwaway dialup accounts obtained with false credit cards and the
like and bounce through dozens of public proxies - not unbeatable I know,
but a right pain to track.   As I understand it, the CIA wanted a way for
their people to be somewhat anonymous when browsing websites, an improved
method than the NSA's Maryland Holdings (or whatever it was - can't remember
exactly) that they used when asked which company they worked for over the
phone... I assume GCHQ don't use Universal Exports ? ;-)
If one of the Three Letter Agencies wanted to track my internet usage, they
probably would use a more efficient and clandestine method to do it.

Regards,
            JJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Q G Campbell" <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: C I A non-profit venture capital company


> Donald
>
> Just because the NSA uses workstations from Sun Microsystems does not
> mean that they thus become a security risk to non-NSA users of Sun kit
> like myself!
>
> I may even be using a more secure technology as a result of this if some
> of the security enhancments have transferred from this specialist
> governmental area to the commercial sector.
>
> Quentin
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donald ramsbottom [mailto:donald@ramsbottom.co.uk]
> > Sent: 01 March 2001 07:20
> > To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> > Subject: C I A non-profit venture capital company
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