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20 Great Windows downloads for Data Privacy Day 2009!
Today marks the second "celebration" of Data Privacy Day, an event put together by the good folks at Intel and other groups including the EU, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.The goal is to increase awareness of privacy practices and rights and create discussion. It only seems appropriate for DownloadSquad to provide some links to applications that have been created with privacy protection in mind.
Here's my list - feel free to chime in with your own additions in the comments!
File and Disk Encryption Tools:
Password Vaults:
- KeePass [ writeup ]
- Password Safe
- LastPass [ writeup ]
Web Browsers with privacy enhancements built-in:
- Maxthon
- OperaTor [ writeup ]
- QtWeb
- SRWare Iron
- XB Browser [ writeup ]
Instant Messaging:
- Miranda
- Pidgin
- Massive comparison of IM clients on Wikipedia shows which offer encryption
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 3:28PM on 1-28-2009
Nice to share data privacy tips, here's another list: http://www.jashsayani.com/tips-for-data-privacy-day-2009/
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rkd said 10:29PM on 1-28-2009
Nice list, thanks! One remark; the Maxthon browser with enhanced privacy elements? Bit of a irony from a Chinese (state owned) company....
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downloadsquad said 7:21PM on 2-05-2009
For individual file encryption, as opposed to whole drive encryption offered by True Crypt, I recommend AxCrypt (http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/Default.html). AxCrypt offers AES encryption. Its free and open source. The user interface integrates nicely with windows file explorer, a better solution than Drag'n'Crypt Ultra. AxCrypt has plenty of other options - command line, self decrypting files, keys by key file or pass phrase input.
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downloadSquadReader said 7:24PM on 2-05-2009
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Apologies for that lost post. I meant to post as downloadSquadReader, not downloadSquad. I am not affiliated with download squad.
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For individual file encryption, as opposed to whole drive encryption offered by True Crypt, I recommend AxCrypt (http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/Default.html). AxCrypt offers AES encryption. Its free and open source. The user interface integrates nicely with windows file explorer, a better solution than Drag'n'Crypt Ultra. AxCrypt has plenty of other options - command line, self decrypting files, keys by key file or pass phrase input.
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