Gema and BBC countries blockages are me now wurscht

This product consists of two programs that I evaluate individually. For me personally, F-Secure Freedom the key component, which I use, F-Secure Safe is secondary for me in this case.

1. F-Secure Freedom (tested on a laptop)

=== === Delivery
Delivered is a folding box with a code and instructions on where you can download the software. What is sent by mail, is beyond me. Here would an email absolutely sufficient that contains the activation code.

=== Installation ===
Child's play. We go to the F-Secure website and download the software. After installation is simple the code is entered and off you go. When installing it is pointed out that one should yet please do anything illegal with the anonymization tool.

=== Why do you need this tool ===
On the one hand, to protect his privacy and make the intelligence services at least a tiny bit easier harder. I give myself no illusions that it would really protect me in the unlikely case of an emergency, because digital evidence would anyway easy to fake, but I have to go not peddle my data also. Facebook believes now determined that I go straight to the speed of light on the globe, because I will now be every day in a different country when I query Facebook. I have since stop every day to answer the security question, but it's worth it to me.
The real scope for me are BBC Podcasts. There are some, especially from time to time in radio plays, as is 'UK only'. With this tool, you come to consult with these podcasts. An example to test is the BBC Radio 3 Podcast 'Spirit of Schubert'. Without this tool, you will be blocked. So you just go in 'Freedom', sets the location to London, reloads the page and voilà already one comes close in on the podcast and it slows one not from surfing (OK, depends a bit on the country, it seems the farther away, the slower it can be) when selecting a website. One must note that it restarts the browser if you have the tool does not run all the time, Freedom reaches at least for Firefox only after its restart after the tool has started.
The tool is also useful for youtube videos that the youtubeunblocker not get free, partly because they are embedded on other sites, or for whatever reason. Again: Location United States and already is the funny video unlocked and GEMA takes the tube.

=== === Problems
There are 1. Problems with some one-click hosters. If you have a (American) tutor who not the Unieigene file sharing system to be read literature used (probably because it is in German), but one-click hoster, you have to turn off the program because these sites as dangerous and unblockable attackierend, although they are completely harmless.
2. If you use Thunderbird with Gmail, Google blocks access. Then you get an email from Gmail "suspects prevents registration". For other mail providers I could not observe this because there seems to be no problems.

=== === Application
The program is on the bar next to the clock. It only provides for when you need it. I have tried other free tools this way Ghostery, but who my old computer so slowed down that it was almost impossible ever to select another page. As is dispensed very quickly to anonymisation, especially as it partly was so slow, that, while the videos and podcasts turn came, but it was too slow to play or download it. Toll, but see can not use is just not really a step forward.
With this tool, you really will not notice. Every now and then it displays a time that it just encrypted, but that hardly disturbs.

2. F-Secure Safe

The first surprise came when I opened the package: nothing inside, nothing but a code and a web address.
On this website FSecure to enroll, it reaches the email and name. Although you can define its address, but everything has a company really know about me. It's not necessary to know where I live, to protect my phone. Therefore, I have waived daruf divulge my private data.
The code in the package sets the number of licenses that you get shown in the menu.

You can now choose how you want to install
a) Download directly from the menu (for the PC)
b) SMS Link for mobile phones
c) e-mail for Tablet

Installation via SMS for Android mobile phone was simply un straightforward. Shortly afterwards, the phone is already displayed in FSecure Menu. There is then a menu item "theft". I hope I never have to use it. I can not say whether it will work in an emergency really far also.
Also e-mail my Android tablet was involved quickly and easily.
I wonder quite how I get the software again in a year from mobile or whether I will extend. I have not yet decided.

I have a little stomach ache, when I think about that now, theoretically a company has all the ability, when a Secret Service wants z. Ex., To places far away from my phone and unlock or delete. What I can, can the NSA, if they want it. I do not consider myself so important that I would be an interesting destination, but it is quite possible that the services are accessible in crises such software backups to lots of easy lamzulegen phones undirected and ungeziehlt to scatter only to chaos. It would be possible.
This software is a matter of trust. How far you trust the servers F-Secure and how far you trust the company to cooperate voluntarily with the secret services and governments.

The "location" can be surely abused very easily by parents to monitor children and to control where they are located, and the very questionable. As a child I would forbid it me, that my parents invite me this program on your mobile phone and then always know where I am. This is again a little police state to the family inside. In addition, so that parents have incredible blackmail possibilities: track, or do I activate the anti-theft device in your phone!

Another shortcoming is that it is possible to log on via his Facebook account in the F-Secure Safe. It is well known that Facebook rausrückt everything to the authorities. If you use this, the authorities have direct access via Facebook to F-Secure and so on all the devices that are associated with it. Pay so that intelligence can easily suck my data? That is very worrying, especially because every phone is anyway very easy to manipulate to hack and how since Dec 2014 known. UMTS and LTE are as full of holes as a Swiss cheese when it comes to security, whether there really need a program? This is really just a Dilietantenschreck when the phone is stolen at the beach of a teen and even they will probably soon be able to loose overturn such programs.

This safety program is a very double-edged sword, like all security measures ....

=== === Conclusion
F-Secure Freedom 5 stars
F-Secure Safe 3 stars
Total, if you really want the whole package 4 stars
But I'm interested mainly F-Secure Freedom, so I give it 5 stars.