From protecting your online privacy, bypassing censorship, to fighting tyranny, this book aims to provide practical software and instructions for novices and the experienced. The emphasis is on the use of free and widely available tools to level the playing field against resourceful and powerful adversaries. With increasingly powerful computers, a modest laptop can use a massive P2P network such as Skype to hide your trails, or create a virtual machine with a virtual private network for kids to play safely online.
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How to Protect your Internet Anonymity and Privacy
Internet and Society
This book will provide a multidisciplinary view of the Internet and its interaction with society. It is being written as part of a class project that is planned to continually revise this book as the course is taught in future semesters. The book will be targeted toward college students from any major.
The principal perspectives that will be covered are:
- technology (the basic infrastructure of the web, its architecture and statistics)
- economics (the role that the Internet is playing and has played in economies)
- legal (legal issues, especially copyright, patent, trademark, but also libel, censorship, etc.)
- culture (online communities, cultural production)
Using Gopherspace
Gopher is an internet protocol for text and multimedia. URIs that reference gopher documents start with gopher://
The Firefox browser supports gopher. Dedicated gopher browsers include mkgopher and forg for Linux.
Gopher was created at the University of Minnesota in 1991. (The school's mascot is a gopher.) Two early search engines were developed to search gopher servers: Veronica and Jughead.
Gopher has a strict hierarchy system. It originally supported text only, but has been expanded to support images and other filetypes.
Wiki Pedagogy
This book endeavours to denote and promote pedagogical experimentations concerning a Free/Open technology called a "Wiki". An intensely simple, accessible and collaborative hypertext tool Wiki software challenges and complexities traditional notions of - as well as access to - authorship, editing, and publishing. Usurping official authorizing practices in the public domain poses fundamental - if not radical - questions for both academic theory and pedagogical practice.
The particular pedagogical challenge is one of control: Wikis work most effectively when participants (teachers, students, researchers, and others) can assert meaningful autonomy over the process. This involves not just adjusting the technical configuration and delivery; it involves challenging the social norms and practices of the course as well (Lamb, 2004). Enacting such horizontal knowledge assemblages in higher education - as well as other educational practices - could evoke a return towards and an instance upon the making of impossible public goods (Ciffolilli, 2003).
