You may even install multiple cameras and monitor more than one location. It constantly records, but saves and alerts you only when a relevant object is detected, eliminating false positives.

The application is small (26 MB) in size and very easily to set up. Once installed, you simply select the cameras that Vitamin D recognizes on you computer and start recording.

If you’re a shopkeeper who wants to keep an eye on things, a concerned parent who wants to keep an eye on their little children, or simply a cautious house-owner who thinks it’s better to be safe than sorry, than go over to Vitamin D’s webpage and download this wonderful application right now!

Demo video:

Features:

• Whether you’ve got a Mac or PC, Vitamin D will run on both systems. Click here for the detailed system requirements.
• With integrated image recognition techniques, Vitamin d can tell when an object is moving. Say you’ve got the webcam set up to show your backyard. You can specify Vitamin d to alert you whenever a person walks into the frame. This can be a fantastic way to be prepared of any break-ins.
• The program distills a long day of video into an interactive highlight reel of important events. One click filters your results to only show people, and keyboard shortcuts let you scan your day in seconds.
• Similar tools: HighlightCam, HomeCamera and UGOlog. Also check out our article on How To Build A WiFi Home Surveillance System.

Check out Vitamin D @ www.vitamindinc.com

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It locks your text using a secure question and answer (which it allows you to create), and creates a link for the encrypted page. The text is encrypted using standard cryptography and it is performed on your local PC. For anyone intending to view the data, s/he needs to know the answer to the question.

The search engine bots are not allowed access to that page.

Features:

• Save and share encrypted messages online.
• Messages are locked using a user created secure question.
• Clean and simple interface.
• No registration required.
• Get the link to the encrypted page and a norbt ID.
• Similar tools: SafeMess, Crypo, Encodor, InfoEncrypt and File Encryptor.

Check out Norbt @ www.norbt.com (via Lifehacker, by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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To encrypt, simply enter your text and password into provided fields and then click on “Encrypt the message” button. There is also an option to set the expiration time after which the text will become non decryptable.

Features:

• Encrypt your text right inside your browser.
• Your text will be password protected and encrypted with secure XXTEA block cipher algorithm.
• Set the expiration time after which the text will become non decryptable.
• Currently you can encrypt no more than 32 kilobytes of data (10 printed pages of text) at one session.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar tools: Crypo, Encodor, InfoEncrypt and File Encryptor.

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It provides options to view other crime details like kidnapping, arson etc and also lets you sort by type of crime, date or distance. Plus view crime information within specific dates.

Features

• See crime reports by zip code in North American cities.
• No sign up required. Just enter the city name or a zip code to get results.
• Sort crimes by type, distance and location.
• View crimes within a date range.
• Similar site: SpotCrime.

Check out CrimeReports @ www.crimereports.com (via Lifehacker) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• ZCmap : Zip Code Lookup by City or State
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Simply upload a suspicious file and click “Scan”. You will have wait several minutes before the scan starts and produces results for each antivirus engine.

Since it uses multiple online antivirus engines simultaneously, it is far more effective at detecting viruses and other threats than any single online antivirus on its own. That being said, VirusChief is not an only online virus scaner that uses virus definition from multiple engines, there is also VirusTotal, Filterbit and several more.

Features:

• Free online virus scanner.
• Scan suspicious individual files online for viruses and threats.
• Uses multiple online virus scan engines including AntiVir, Avast, AVG, BitDefender, Dr.Web and others (total 13 engines).
• View scan results for each antivirus engine.
• No registration needed.

Check out VirusChief @ www.viruschief.com

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In addition to listing your browsing history the app also organizes visited sites into categories showing how someone can easily group gathered data to find out more about you and what you do online.

If you want to prevent this type of intrusions and unauthorized data mining you should disable the browser history and CSS styling, more details available here. For other ways to secure your browser I highly recommend you to check out browser addons for Security and Privacy (Firefox users only).

Check out WhatTheInternetKnowsAboutYou @ www.whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com

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To get started, register on the website and add URLs you want to track. In the next step customize scan frequency and alert settings. Done.

Features:

• Online website security monitoring tool.
• Monitor as many resources as you want.
• Checks for things such as:
- DNS hijacking.
- Whois hijacking.
- Blacklisting.
- Malware injection.
- Site defacement.
• Set scan frequency to as often as every 20 minutes (24×7).
• Receive alerts showing what has changed.
• Easy to setup and use.
• Similar websites: UnmaskParasites and WebAnti-Malware.

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To use the website, simply paste email contents into provided field and hit “Search”. Is-This-A-Scam will search for the email contents on anti-frad websites and present its findings.

Features:

• Spot internet scams and hoaxes.
• Checks across 100 major anti-scam and anti-fraud sites.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar sites: Hoax-Slayer and SonicWALL. Also see 2 Sites to Verify Urban Legends & Email Scams.

Check out Is-This-A-Scam @ www.jasonmorrison.net/is-this-a-scam

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There are there ways you can use Login2.me to get logins:

1. Go to Login2.me and enter the URL of the website for which you wan to get a login.

2. Drag and drop provided bookmarklet on to your browser, and click it when you are on the site that requires login.

3. Simply type login2.me# in front of the site URL in address bar for example: login2.me#http://facebook.com.

If the given login details did not work, click on «Not working, show more» and more logins will be displayed.

Features:

• Get free logins for websites when you don’t want to register yourself.
• No limit on the number of login details you can request.
• Claims to cover all popular websites with more being added on a daily bases.
• Option to report non-working accounts.
• Similar websites: BugMeNot.

Check out Login2.me @ www.login2.me

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You just need to type in the email address and click the encode button to get the code. And then paste the code where you are planning to put your email address.

Note:  This technique is not a foolproof solution, a spambot intelligent enough could have the ability to crack this code, but this is WAY MORE safer than just writing the address.

Features:

• Web based email address encoder.
• Works on all the browsers.
• No sign up required.
• Similar tools: TheHTMLEncoder, The Enkoder Form, SpamProofEmailGenerator and HideText.

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You can log into to TweetBlocker using your Twitter credentials and get a personal spam report. It also provides a bookmarklet named ‘ Report Spammer ‘ which can help you quickly report a spam twitter account to them.

Features

• Identify the spammers and clean up twitter followers.
• Unfollow or block the spammers once you know them.
• Get a personal spam report by logging into the tool.
• Use Report Spammer bookmarklet to quickly report a spammer.
• Similar site:  TwitChuck and MyCleenr.

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How it works:

1. Pick a master password for all your websites.
2. Click “Generate my Password” to generate a unique password for each different website you use.
3. Use the generated passwords for the corresponding websites.

And if you lose your generated password, simply come to SimlePassword, enter your master password and it will generate the same password for that respective website. Generated passwords are strong and contain both small and capital letters and numbers.

Features:

• Generates strong unique password for each website you use using a a single master password.
• Generated passwords are strong and contain both small and capital letters and numbers.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: SafePasswd, PasswordSuggest, PassPub and others.

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The service has both free and premium options, the free option being quite a decent one. It doesn’t require registration to start with. Click on Start Recording, allow the site to use your webcam and you are good to go.

Features:

• Use your webcam as a security camera and spy on your room when you are away.
• Reduces video hours by recording only when there is a motion.
• No registration required to start.
• Get premium account if you need to download the videos.
• Similar apps: HomeCamera and UGOlog. Also check out an excellent MakeUseOf article on How To Use Skype as a Covert Snooper.

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Features

• Fast and reliable with over 4 Gigabits of dedicated bandwidth.
• Total Privacy assured. They would keep no records of your surfing.
• No need to download any software.
• 128 Bit Secure Connection to ensure privacy over all networks.
• Free to register.

If you liked this tool you may also check MakeUseOf article on 10 Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads. Lots of readers foundthe post really useful.

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Hid.im also provides a bookmarklet to decode the hid.im images. It doesn’t require sign up to convert torrents and also provides a Firefox extension.

Features

• Convert and hide torrent files inside PNG images.
• Bookmarklet and Firefox extension available.
• Torrent file should not exceed 250KB.
• No registration required.

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Vanish is available as a software plus Firefox plugin system and as a web based app. It works with almost all the messaging systems like email, chats, social networks like Facebook etc. The messages are encrypted with a key which is lost after 8 hours and hence the message can’t be decrypted.

Fro more info watch demo video below:

Get the Vanish System here and click here to access the web based version. (via ReadWriteWeb) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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To encrypt your data, simply enter your text and encryption password into provided fields and then click Encrypt. The password will be required for both encryption and decryption. Anyone who intercepts your encrypted message without password will not be able to read original message.

The website also offers fully functional mobile version which can be used with almost any web enabled mobile phone including iPhone and Blackberry.

Features:

• Lets you encrypt and decrypt sensitive data.
• Uses most advanced military grade 1280-bit encryption algorithm.
• All encryptions are done on your computer.
• Mobile version to access the site from mobile devices.
• No sign up needed.
• Similar web tools: Encodor, InfoEncrypt and File Encryptor.

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To get it running, go to the website and launch the Java applet within your browser to start the analysis.

Features:

• Check your internet connection for various common problems.
• View findings in a detailed report.
• Non need to download or install anything, runs in you browser.
• No registration or email required.

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So if you received a strange phone call, enter the phone number into the field and click “Get Details”. If this number was reported before, you can read related user comments and share your own experience. If the number was not reported, leave your comments online so that others can benefit from this information.

Features:

• Identify strange callers online by looking up the phone number.
• Search user reports and read comments from those who received calls from the same number.
• Report strange phone numbers.
• Similar websites: NumberZoom and EveryCall.us

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Once you have signed in, you can include personal information about yourself including photos, short bio, interests, links to your social profiles and other info and offer people a way to contact you without revealing your real email address. You can publish your contact info (phone numbers, emails, addresses) and specify the list of people who can view it.

Features:

• Find yourself on Google and control what information people see when they search for you on Google.
• Include personal info about yourself (photos, short bio, links to social profiles etc).
• Publish and update your contact details and specify the list of people who can view it.
• Receive messages without revealing your email address.
• To create and customize your Google profile, sign in with your Google Account credentials.

Check out Google Profiles @ www.google.com/profiles

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If some website is asking for your email to send you a one-time newsletter or some offer etc., just give them any random email address (ex: receive-newsletter-may19-2009@dodgit.com) And then come back later to Dodgit and check for all the emails sent to that particular address.

The down side of this is that anyone who knows or guesses your temporary username can access your emails. So make sure to pick the something only you would know. You can check your emails from the website or through the RSS feed.

Features:

• Get an instant disposable inbox to receive emails.
• No need for to choose username, password or remember a unique URL
• Check emails for any username.
• Access your emails from the website or via RSS feed.

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Firstly, it is very simple. You just enter your email and provider and press “Generate”. No need to choose text size, font and it doesn’t mask your address behind a captcha or some weird javascript code.

Secondly, it generates a pleasant email image branded with a provider’s logo. If your email service is not listed you can create your custom image.

Features:

• Protect your email address from spam bots by converting it into a picture.
• Get email address as an image branded with email provider’s logo.
• Similar services HideText, EmailCover and Spam Proof Email Generator.

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Check out the new Panda Cloud Antivirus. It is first free lightweight antivirus solution that runs “in the cloud”, which means that all the processing and scanning is done on their servers and doesn’t tax your computer resources while it runs. It consumes around 17 MB of RAM while in use. In comparison, the average local antivirus consumes around 60 MB of memory.

It collects new virus information in real-time from millions of users like you, automatically updates your virus definitions, detects and removes the possible threats including viruses, malware, trojans, spyware, tracking cookies and more.

It has a very simple and intuitive interface. Download it free from the website, install it and forget about it.

Features:

• 100% free online antivirus.
• Collects virus information from millions of users in real time, automatically updates your virus definitions, detects and removes possible threats.
• Lightweight and most operations are performed online.
• Protects against all kinds of possible threats – viruses, malware, trojans, spyware, tracking cookies and more
• Consumes very little of your system resources, since all the scanning and processing is done “in the cloud” (remote company servers)
• Simple and pleasant interface.
• Currently supports Windows XP.
• Download it free from the website

Try PandaCloudAntivirus @ www.cloudantivirus.com

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It’s easy, fast and straightforward. Just enter the website URL into the field and click “Surf anonymously”.

Features:

• Surf the web anonymously without leaving any personally identifiable information about yourself.
• Bypass filters in your school or work place to get access to restricted websites.
• Similar sites: CTunne, Prime Proxies and Unblockall.

Check out Anonymouse @ www.anonymouse.org

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It also includes a so called active surf protection that blocks malicious sites even if accessed directly from the address bar. For more info watch the demo video below:

Features

• Real time web page scanner plug in for your web browser.
• Available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Similar tools: McAfee.

Check out AVGLinkScanner @ http://linkscanner.avg.com

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The application also available as a desktop (Windows and Mac OS X) client.

Features

• Use Twitter at work without anyone seeing.
• Mask your Twitter stream under Excel spreadsheet.
• Desktop (Windows and Mac OS X) clients available (requires Adobe AIR).
• Simple and free.
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Check out SpreadTweet @ www.elliottkember.com/spreadtweet

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As it’s built on top of Google Maps, users are able to search by location (address, zip code, city) or simply zoom in on the map. The application will display all toxic facilities for any requested area presenting them using red (high emission levels) and blue (low emission levels) markers.

Clicking on a particular marker gives you additional info about the area like statistics, emission type and levels over period of time, management details and comparison.

Features:

• Find out if there are facilities with high toxic emission output in your area.
• Toxic facilities are marked with colored markers.
• Get more detailed information for any toxic facility.

Check out MapEcos @ www.mapecos.org

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Just enter the file/process name into provided field and see what FileInspect got on it. It gives you a file/process description, a program using that process and also tells you if you should leave it running or disable it.

Users may also browse the site alphabetically, view most searched terms and check out known dangerous files.

Features:

• Identify processes running in your task manager.
• Browse processes alphabetically.
• View most viewed and most dangerous files.
• Leave comments.
• Similar websites:ProcessLibrary , TaskList and WhatIsThatFile.

Check out FileInspect @ www.fileinspect.com

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The quiz will present you with 10 questions containing email screenshots. You would need to decide if the email is legit or phishing. When the quiz is complete, you get to see your score and also check the reason why is your answer correct or wrong.

Features:

• Online phishing email test.
• Shows how to identify phishing and spam emails.
• Free and no sign up.

Check out SonicWALL @ www.sonicwall.com/phishing

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The application is 100% web based meaning that there is no software download. In terms of setup it is very simple and does not require any networking skills, all you need to have is a working webcam.

UGOlog can automatically record videos in intervals or continuously, includes motion detection, and supports multiple cameras. Free account lets you have 2 cameras with daily limit of 500 snapshots and 5 minute recording. Premium accounts are free during beta period.

The site is in beta, so keep in mind that some things might not work properly. Support for IP cameras is coming soon.

Features:

• Monitor your home remotely using your webcam.
• No software download required.
• Simple to use and no networking skills needed.
• Includes automatic recording, video history, motion detection, interval-based recording and multiple camera support.
• Free account lets you have 2 cameras with daily limit of 500 snapshots and 5 min recording.
• Similar websites: HomeCamera

Check out UGOLog @ www.ugolog.com

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To test the strength of your password try out online password Strength Test. Just enter your password into provided box and the test will evaluate it’s strength as you type, clearly telling if it is easy to hack.

In case the password strength test found that your password is weak then password generators like PassPub, Password Chart and SafePasswd can help you to come up with something stronger.

Features:

• Check the password strength online.
• Displays strength of the password as you type.
• No signup needed.
• Other password strength checkers: Brute Force Calculator and Password Meter.

Check out StrengthTest @ www.rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk

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The installation process is usual and there is no registration.

Ghostery currently can detect over 135 major services that track you on the web. Some of these services are: Google Analytics, MyBlogLog, Quantcast, IndexTools, SiteMeter, Lijit, Omniture, CrazyEgg, Snap… etc.

Features:

• Find out what web pages are watching you.
• Can detect over 135 major services that track you on the web.

Check out Ghostery @ www.ghostery.com

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Features

• Mask your email address by converting it to image.
• Image is a CAPTCHA so that even advanced spam bots can’t read it.
• Get a personal and direct image url.
• Get various text and image links and codes to use on websites and forums.
• Similar sites: SpamProofEmailGenerator, TheHTMLEncoder and HideText.

Check out Email Cover @ www.emailcover.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Using it you can search the whole Internet or search only mainstream news, images, PDF files, social networks, videos and more. Refine results by keywords or by domain. Click on results to visit external sites directly or click the green “Visit anonymously” link to browse them anonymously through Yauba’s proxy servers.

Features:

• Provides you with anonymous searching.
• No user records are stored on the servers, all information is deleted.
• Search the whole Internet or search only blogs, images, PDF files, social networks etc.
• Visit external sites anonymously through Yauba’s proxy servers.
• Similar tools: CTunnel and Prime Proxies.

Check out Yauba @ www.yauba.com (via Orangelinks)

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This is where PrivacyChoice can help, it lets you simultaneously opt out from a number of major ad networks (eg: Google AdSense, DoubleClick, Yahoo! and AOL ) with a single click of a button. Quick, simple and you do not have to go to each network individually.

The another way to protect your browsing privacy is simply use software to delete cookies.

Features:

• Lets you opt out from being tracked by advertising companies.
• Simple and easy to use, it takes a single click.
• Free. No sign-up needed.

Check out PrivacyChoice @ www.privacychoice.net (via Lifehacker)

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TemporaryInbox offers two ways to protect your email from spam. First, it gives you temporary inbox email accounts that can be used for suspicious sites ande delted at any time. Additionally, there are temporary forwarding accounts that merely redirect incoming email to your real address.

1) Temporary inbox for incoming mail

You can get a temporary email address right from the main page (see picture below). It works the same way as any usual email address and can be used anywhere. The only difference is that all incoming emails to this address are deleted automatically after 6 hours. To check for incoming mails just enter your temporary address into provided field and click “Go”. There is also a Firefox browser add-on that lets you check your temporary inbox right from the browser toolbar.

2) Temporary forwarding

Forwarding account lets you create an email that forwards all of your incoming emails to your real email address. This account can be easily deleted at any time.

Features:

• Protect your private email from spam by using disposable email accounts
• 2 types of accounts available: temporary inbox email and temporary forwarding.
• Download the Firefox browser plugin to access temporary inbox right from the browser toolbar.
• No registration needed.
• Similar websites: MakeMeTheKing, MeltMail and TempInBox.

Check out TemporaryInbox @ www.temporaryinbox.com

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The site lists variety of videos, starting from basic computer security to more complex network security. You can search for videos and browse them by category. There are 4 main categories such as Coding, Tools, Basics and Fun, when you select a category you will find a list of subcategories organized under separate topics.

You can also view recent and popular videos, and leave comments on any video you like or dislike.  Additionally there is an option to contribute and submit videos of your own.

Features:

• YouTube for computer security videos.
• Search and browse videos by category.
• Check out latest and popular videos.
• Comment on the videos.
• Embedding supported.
• Contribute by submitting video of your own.

Check out SecurityTube @ www.securitytube.net

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Additionally to running scans the site also provides you with a background and insight information related to firewall security. It also explains what needs to be done to stay fully protected.

Features:

• Run firewall test scans online.
• You can check your computer for:

- Windows file sharing vulnerability
- Common ports vulnerability
- All service ports vulnerability
- Specified port vulnerability
- Browser vulnerability
- Messenger vulnerability

• Lookup specific port information.
• Additional background and insight information related to firewall security.
• No registration needed.

Note: These firewall tests can only show the view from the outside looking in. If you already have a Trojan or spyware in your system, it can easily create a hole in your firewall. So make sure to scan your computer for spyware, malware and viruses as well.

Check out  ShieldsUP @ www.grc.com/x/

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It can also come in very handy if you want check your email or login into one of your web accounts from some public computer.

Quickscan runs online, so there is nothing to install. You are only aksed to allow ActiveX control on your browser. By default it works only on Internet Explorer. Firefox need to have IE Tab addon in order to use it.

Features:

• Online spyware and virus scan.
• No download and no registration.
• Scan your computer as many times as you want.
• Supports IE and Firefox (IE Tab extension needed).
• Also see 10 Free Online Malware and Virus Scanners.

Check out QuickScan @ www.qscan.bitdefender.com

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You can password protect your messages, make them self destruct after being read, protect them from being copied and restrict recipient attempts to enter code correctly.

There is no registration necessary, however if you register, the site allows you to manage contacts and track if sent message have been read.

Features:

• Secure messaging solutions.
• Encrypts all your messages with 160-bit encryption within 128-bit SSL.
• All your messages strictly kept within the server and never send anywhere.
• Recipient gets only notification with the link pointing to your message.
• Security options: add passwords,  self-destruct and anti-copying .
• Similar sites: Send, SDMessage, PrivNote and DeviceCode.

Check out StealthMessage @ www.stealthmessage.com

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