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Privacy is often portrayed as a consumer concern, with business as the bad guy. However, enterprises have more to lose: When customer databases, employee records, or trade secrets fall into the wrong hands, a company can face embarrassment, lawsuits, and the loss of its competitive advantage. Even if you're not running Napster through someone else's T3 or hacking a competitor's server, you should think seriously about whether you want marketers and government agencies prying into your business.
The Freedom suite from Zero Knowledge Systems (www. zeroknowledge.com) protects your identity and that of your users. It's a combination of software and service, aiming to satisfy all your privacy needs in a single package. In addition to commonplace options such as ad blocking, Freedom includes some unique features. Most importantly, it can monitor a network connection to ensure that restricted information isn't revealed. There's also anonymous Web browsing and a cookie-- management system to separate homebaked goodness from cakes laced with poison.
Network monitoring may seem slightly out of place in a program claiming to protect privacy, but it's a key feature of Freedom. Unlike traditional spyware, which sifts through incoming packets to see...