Spamhuntress

I’ve been looking for a safe solution for surfing via wifi for a while, and here’s one that looks promising:

A thumdrive with stealth software

Question is, can we achieve the same effect with software loaded onto our already purchased thumbdrives? I mean, I’ve already heard of portable Firefox and Thunderbird. So did this company make a stealth version, or does it exist elsewhere, just waiting for me to download?

Also, they’re not telling you the whole story. “Public” computers often have keyword logging software or hardware on them. So you’d have to use the Roboform, and be careful what you write, unless you’re actually using your own computer via wifi and everything’s encrypted.

Any thoughts?

Update: Looks like it’s using Open Source programs (Firefox and Thunderbird), and then adding Anonymizer, which is software you normally have to pay for. Frankly, it should be possible to make something similar yourself, if you’re so inclined, and you’re willing to pay for Anonymizer.

One review noted that if you’re using it at work, your IT department can still see where you’re surfing. If that’s true, then Anonymizer isn’t encrypting the addresses. For this to truly protect you while using wifi, it has to encrypt the actual data going back and forth. The Anonymizer servers are acting as a proxy server, doing that task.

You could theoretically use another server to do that, but you’d need some software to encrypt and communicate with your server.

Any other solutions out there we should look at?

I heard from a guy a while ago who had his passwords stolen while travelling, and the script kiddies who stole it had used it to mess with his server. Shudder…

Edit: Here are alternate solutions: Company VPN, Terminal server at work, Remote Desktop to your home machine, your own VPN set up from home.

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