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How to surf anonymously without a trace
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
The best free software you can find for being anonymous when you use the Web is to use the free Tor. When you use Tor, all your communications -- not just Web surfing, but also instant messaging and other applications -- are in essence bounced around a giant network of Tor servers called "onion routers" until it's impossible for sites or people to be able to track your activities.
Setting up Tor is straightforward. Download a package that includes not just Tor, but other software you need to work with it, such as Privoxy, a proxy program. All the software is self-configuring, so you won't need to muck around with port settings or the like. Tor runs as a small icon in your system tray. To start Tor, right-click it and choose Start from the menu that appears; to stop it, right-click it and choose Stop.
http://www.computerworld.com/action...78&pageNumber=1
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Onion Routers are an amazing technology for conspiracy theorists, criminals, and terrorist organizations.
If you want to know more about how they work, there's a good podcast about it here..
http://www.twit.tv/sn70
Posted by: miha
Take a look at TOR. Might be what you're looking for.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Too vague.
Posted by: Bishop
Hypothetically useful, but ultimately fails. We're all used to high speed bandwidth and getting every single browser request bounced all over the god damned planet results in dialup speeds.
Posted by: FadedMaster
I did notice a little bit of a slow down in the speed. But it was still significantly faster than dial up. I'd say that my speed was cut down by a quarter or so. Running at 75% normal speed is worth it for me. Now, that was just web browsing. I would not at all try to play WoW with Tor running, haha.
Posted by: tristar504
What are some other browsers that work like TOR? Better?
Posted by: pdnielsen
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Originally Posted by tristar504
What are some other browsers that work like TOR? Better?
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Tor is not a browser unto itself. It's just software that enables Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc. to disguise the origin of URL entries by bouncing the requests all over the place and thus hiding your MAC address.
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