As awesome as the internet is, it might also be the biggest\r\nthreat to personal privacy the world has ever known. But even though it’s tough\r\nto guarantee total privacy in a connected world, a number of tools can help you\r\nto maintain some degree of personal privacy. Let’s look at five such\r\nutilities.
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The Premium version ($39/year or $59/two years) adds credit\r\ncard and phone masking, along with backup and sync.
Blur\r\nis available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.
The coolest thing about Web of Trust is that it doesn’t just\r\nwork for the site that you’re visiting — it works within search engines, too.\r\nSearch results displayed within a search engine such as Bing will include the\r\nWeb of Trust color code.
Web of\r\nTrust is available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.
Spotflux does prompt you to create an account, but you will\r\nneed to do so only if you plan to use the premium service. Otherwise, you can\r\nskip the account registration process.
CyberScrub is application aware and can remove evidence\r\nfrom a variety of browsers, applications, email and newsreaders, and peer-to-peer\r\nprograms.
CyberScrub Privacy Suite sells for $59.95, but a free 15-day\r\ntrial is available for download.
* 1988 - Started teaching myself about computers \ * 1992 - Mainframe programmer for an insurance company \ * 1993 - Network Administrator for a different insurance company \ * 1996 - Author for The Cobb Group \ * 1998 - Network Administrator for Fort Knox \ * 1999 - CIO for chain of hospitals \ * 2000 - Gave up the corporate rat race to work out of my home. I have been a full time technical author ever since. Visit my Web sites at http://www.brienposey.com and http://www.relevanttechnologies.com \
