This blog began in 2003 as Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag and continued as From the Library Director from 2005-2010. You can read my newspaper columns at FromtheLibraryColumn published Thursdays in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Anonymouse


In Dennis O'Reilly's blog post of December 17, he states 5 ways to protect your privacy online:

#1: Paranoia pays. Don't trust anything or anyone.

#2: Don't use Internet Explorer.

#3: Use a temporary credit card number.

#4: Use an anonymous proxy server like Anonymouse.

#5: Don't use Google.


I wasn't aware there was any way I could surf the web anonymously, leaving no cookies behind. It's a great tip. As we do more and more online, and more and more sophisticated phishing and marketing ploys hit the Web, it's important that we learn some privacy protection.