Never do anything online that you wouldn't want your family to see. This is the best policy and will save you a lot of trouble. Of course we should take reasonable measures to safeguard our privacy and sometimes our identity online. The best measures I know of are encryption, host file blocking, and preventing cookies on your web browser if you don't need them to log in to a site. A proxy may be the best all around solution if you are really paranoid, but rest assured they are looking for those who are flocking to proxy servers. Also you cannot be sure that any and all proxies found online are safe. It wouldn't be hard to set up a man in the middle attack on a proxy server and capture all traffic through the connection. So make sure your proxy servers are trusted.

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Heh, a free one would probably be the last one I would trust. Here is a good article on securing your vpn. I think its a good source the bit torrent community is about as paranoid as us :) http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-make-vpns-even-more-secure-120419/

edit: if you search, there is another article on the site that reviews various vpn hosts and ranks them in terms of privacy.

Never do anything online that you wouldn't want your family to see.

That's called self-censorship. The elite would love us all to censor ourselves. It would save them the expense and trouble.

I just said it was the best policy. If you don't want to get in trouble it's 100% effective. But things will never really be that way so I also gave options to protect privacy.

Don't remember where I heard it, but Hushmail is garage AFAIK.

I quit using it a while back and actually most of my "secure" email runs through yopmail.com

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lol, garbage

It is garbage.

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

Also, case Farmer's Market http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/online-drug-market-takedown/

"The indictment does not give any indication how the feds pierced the veil of the technological tools used to shield the operation from being tracked, but the document is filled with evidence gathered from e-mail communications that took place between 2007 and 2009, while the defendants were using Hushmail."

No such thing as privacy. The minute you filled a credit application your privacy was flushed down the toilet. Even if you did it on paper. Someone else entered it on their computer.

Yes, we are watching.

Don't bother "removing" your data from the internet. We have many petabytes of storage, and we have our own logs of all ISP traffic.

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.

eh, fuck you rothschild. Your enterprise doesnt have very long, enjoy it while you can. Your time is up.

petabytes you say.... do those come in bacon flavor?

I have just been informed it's actually "yottabytes".

It is garbage.

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

Also, case Farmer's Market http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/online-drug-market-takedown/

"The indictment does not give any indication how the feds pierced the veil of the technological tools used to shield the operation from being tracked, but the document is filled with evidence gathered from e-mail communications that took place between 2007 and 2009, while the defendants were using Hushmail."