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Many people hate telemarketing calls, as exemplified by the popularity of the National and State Do Not Call (DNC) Lists.

Stop Telemarketers

However, there are many loopholes to the DNC List. One obvious way to cut down on telemarketers is to not give out your phone number.
However, many companies have a legitimate need for your phone number, but they almost invariably abuse the privilege of having your phone number. Besides, its expensive to get a second phone number, and a lot of trouble, right? Wrong. Here’s how you take control of your phone system and stop companies (especially credit card companies) from calling you when you’d rather be left alone. Here’s how to stop pretty much all telemarketers from bothering you and eliminate those pesky phone hassles:
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You need Psiphon if you surf away from home, or have friends that need to, as I wrote about in Part I. In Part II, We’ll cover some of the annoying pitfalls and things I didn’t fully understand in downloading, installing, configuring and operating Psiphon as a personal secure proxy and censor circumvention tool. Continue Reading »

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Psiphon is a a new way to help people cut through firewalls. You should be using it if you surf wirelessly away from home, or in a location where firewalls stop you from going to places you would like to go on the Web.

Psiphon is a personal, secure proxy
& anti-censorship Tool

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It was designed to circumvent censorship in repressive countries (typical article here; you can also find the New York Times Article still available here). In addition to helping your friends and relatives circumvent censorship, you need this application to secure your web browsing at StarBucks from prying eyes and to get around firewalls. Its easy to install, configure and use, but there are a few things you should know to get the most use out of this service and protect yourself.

How Psiphon works. Psiphon is installed on your computer at home, and it acts as a secure web proxy, allowing people to securely log into your PC using the Psiphon service, the go on to other web sites. Governments setting up firewalls (e.g the People’s Republic of China) or monitoring the end user (e.g. the guy at the table next to them at Starbucks, or the National Security Agency) see only the the address of your home PC, and they don’t see the data, because its encrypted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer, Port 443).

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A couple of weeks ago, we told you how and why you should lock down your retirement account so that your retirement isn’t cleaned out.

Another break-in and theft — This time with US Government retirement accounts (401Ks) has been made public,

though not widely reported. I expect that this case will get more press shortly, and there’s a couple of lessons here as well.

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Men and women both say they want a good sense of humor in their mates. However, men and women mean different things by “humor”. Men want someone to laugh at their jokes, and women want someone who’s funny. The article in Psychology Today has several other insights as well.

There were two points in the article I found particularly interesting:

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LifeHacker.com has an excellent article on securing your browsing while at work. It covers some of the same ground I covered in “Protecting Privacy While Using Public Wireless” areas, here, but there are some additional things that I think are worth covering.

First, a few warnings that apply to the work environment:

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