Stealth Surfer: The ultimate in internet privacy

Whenever I talk about internet security, my mother responds "I never send anything on e-mail that couldn't be shouted from the rooftops. Actually, if someone were trying to spy on me, they'd get real bored, real fast." Maybe so for many of us, but we still wonder who might be snooping about, and who might try to steal credit card info or passwords when we are using a work computer or a public terminal. Well, the Gadgeteer has up a review for a new product called "Stealth Surfer" which aims to solve the problem. The device looks like a USB key drive, but when plugged into any PC (with Windows 98 or better) or Mac with a USB port, it provides a special version of Netscape Navigator which saves all of your browser files, including cache, web pages, passwords, etc. onto the internal memory of the device itself. Then when you are done, pull out the device and you can take all of your info with you, leaving nothing on the host computer. No muss, no fuss. It even provides password protection of all data on the device, for Windows users.



Very cool, and something worth considering for any paranoid surfer. Especially if you travel a lot, or wind up using a lot of different computers. (And of course, the other use for this is to carry your bookmarks with you wherever you go, never having to reload them onto each new computer!)



CORRECTION: I just recieved my StealthSurfer and Macs are not supported for the stealth functions. It will work, however, just fine as a USB key drive on a Mac. Sigh. Well, guess it just gets used on the work Windoze machine.