Glass
4th March 2013, 07:44 PM
Some people might get some benefit from products like these. Haven't tried them yet but the concepts could be useful.
Scenario 1:
Travelling to some location in the world. Want to access internet sites, news sources, and other internet services that might be blocked in the country you are visiting. You might want to access information on your PC at home.
Solution: Set up a remote desktop service on your home PC so you can log in and use your home PC to browse the net, visit restricted web and news sites and access your documents.
You could do this yourself or use a third party tool that lets you log into your PC at home. There are many out there and some are free, some are very insecure, some are pay for and some might be secure.
log me in (https://secure.logmein.com/UK/) is one type of service. Monthly/annual fee. Enables remote desktop. Tried this one. Works well. Not saying there is any annonymity with this one.
itwin is another. A couple of products but itwin connect (http://www.itwin.com/) is a secure remote desktop product. This uses a pair of USB keys. One on the destination PC, one you take with you. Assumes you can run a USB on the PC you are using (internet cafe's usually block these). Claims secure links that preserve privacy.
Scenario #2
For some reason you are travelling and you wish to maintain secure access to some documents and files. You signup for a dropbox, install the DB software and log in.
using another itwin product (http://sb.itwin.com/), pair 2 USB drives to a drop box account. Any files uploaded to DB with the keys encrypts those files. Can only be accessed and downloaded with another of the paired USB drives. You take one drive with you and leave one in a safe place. You can access your DP, download and open any encrypted files. You can upload files and have those synced with your home PC... I think that's a capability.
Scenario #2a
As per above but you want to be able to communicate securely with another party. You setup 2 USB keys with drop box. Send other key to recipient who uses it to access the drop box. You have other key and can access drop box. Both of you can upload and download files that are encrypted by the USB keys.
NOTE: I do not know if there are any back doors in this stuff.
There is a third product for sharing files only from home PC. So no desktops or other stuff, just browser access to shared directories at home.
There are plenty of ways to do this stuff and you can set it all up using software bits and pieces from the net. This is kind of all done. You don't need to update internet addresses and so on if they change regularly. The software takes care of that from what I can see.
Scenario 1:
Travelling to some location in the world. Want to access internet sites, news sources, and other internet services that might be blocked in the country you are visiting. You might want to access information on your PC at home.
Solution: Set up a remote desktop service on your home PC so you can log in and use your home PC to browse the net, visit restricted web and news sites and access your documents.
You could do this yourself or use a third party tool that lets you log into your PC at home. There are many out there and some are free, some are very insecure, some are pay for and some might be secure.
log me in (https://secure.logmein.com/UK/) is one type of service. Monthly/annual fee. Enables remote desktop. Tried this one. Works well. Not saying there is any annonymity with this one.
itwin is another. A couple of products but itwin connect (http://www.itwin.com/) is a secure remote desktop product. This uses a pair of USB keys. One on the destination PC, one you take with you. Assumes you can run a USB on the PC you are using (internet cafe's usually block these). Claims secure links that preserve privacy.
Scenario #2
For some reason you are travelling and you wish to maintain secure access to some documents and files. You signup for a dropbox, install the DB software and log in.
using another itwin product (http://sb.itwin.com/), pair 2 USB drives to a drop box account. Any files uploaded to DB with the keys encrypts those files. Can only be accessed and downloaded with another of the paired USB drives. You take one drive with you and leave one in a safe place. You can access your DP, download and open any encrypted files. You can upload files and have those synced with your home PC... I think that's a capability.
Scenario #2a
As per above but you want to be able to communicate securely with another party. You setup 2 USB keys with drop box. Send other key to recipient who uses it to access the drop box. You have other key and can access drop box. Both of you can upload and download files that are encrypted by the USB keys.
NOTE: I do not know if there are any back doors in this stuff.
There is a third product for sharing files only from home PC. So no desktops or other stuff, just browser access to shared directories at home.
There are plenty of ways to do this stuff and you can set it all up using software bits and pieces from the net. This is kind of all done. You don't need to update internet addresses and so on if they change regularly. The software takes care of that from what I can see.