Protecting your identity on the Internet should be simple, and not a full time job.
According to the various reports from the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), the Better Business Bureau, and Javelin Strategy & Research, there were over 16 million cases of Internet identity theft in between 2006 and 2007.
With the rapid advancement of technology and the everyday reliance upon the Internet, it has become an ever daunting task to keep an identity protected and private while surfing the web. Too many people don't heed the warnings about Internet identity protection, until it's too late.
Had only 10% (1.6 million) of the people who had reported identity theft issues via the Internet between 2006 and 2007, used some form of data encryption or protection to access the Internet, they may not have become a statistic.
Most people don't look for ways to protect themselves; rather they look for the quick way to accomplish a task. Protecting one's identity didn't seem important to those 16 million individuals, companies, and/or corporations until it was too late.
Using a program like Cover Surfer you can surf the Internet anonymously and securely. Covert Surfer assists in the protection of your identity by encrypting the data (using National Institute of Standards and Technology approved 256 bit AES encryption) that leaves your computer through the program, and decrypting it when data is received. Covert Surfer also contains a registry clean program and automatically erases your Internet cookies when you close it down. In addition, it provides you with a file shredder which destroys any files you don't want others to discover.
This convenient and easy to use program could have saved millions of people from the ripple effects that ensued when their identity was stolen.
Covert Surfer can be downloaded directly onto your computer or onto a USB Flash Drive, making it portable and a perfect travel companion. Covert Surfer is the tool in the fight for Internet Identity Protection. It is truly the Global Internet Security Tool which keeps your data safe and cyber spies away from your personal information.
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