Anonymity

topic posted Tue, November 2, 2004 - 6:24 PM by  Paranoid
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I would like to hear other people's approaches to anonymity on the net... Personally I am going SSL into an "anonymous proxy" I doubt it is anonymous, but it keeps me from getting nailed by the average kiddy. My only difficulty with the proxy servers seems to be its lmitation with getting all my applications on all ports to go through it effectively and timely. I hope someone can give me some insight on this topic. I have checked out a few tools of sourceforge.net, but later learned some of them were developed with funding from the German govt.. and with backdoors in them.. how nice. On the other hand.. all the anonymous proxies I have found seem to be very slow and unreliable... and what about ways of forwarding NNTP SMTP etc? anyone?
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  • Re: Anonymity

    Wed, November 10, 2004 - 12:07 PM
    Your question is over my head, technically. But see epic.org for a list of privacy/anonymity tools. You may find something new there.
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    Re: Anonymity

    Wed, August 3, 2005 - 2:50 PM
    The best single solution that I know of right now is probably tor (tor.eff.org/). If you can't do that, or find it to be intolerably slow, there are other approaches which will give you a reasonable level of privacy against almost anything which is less pervasive than Echelon. Anonymizer, for example, lets users pay to have both an SSL-based proxy, and an SSH connection, through which flow things like DNS lookups. Then you don't have to worry that your websurfing is encrypted, but that someone can still see your machine searching, in plaintext, for the IP address of doubleplusungoodthink.org. Of course, some spook can still go to Anonymizer and demand records for your IP address, or put surveillance hardware into Anonymizer's network. If they see your encrypted requests going into an Anonymizer server, and, a few milliseconds later, Anonymizer's proxy connecting to emmanuelgoldstein.net ("traffic analysis"), your privacy is toast.

    Avoiding private-sector trackers and data miners is not too hard (on the Internet) if you want to do that, but hiding your tracks from someone like the NSA is far more challenging. Hope that helps... feel free to write me if you have any questions which you'd rather not post.
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      Re: Anonymity

      Mon, August 22, 2005 - 4:32 PM
      I would have to agree Tor is pretty good and not to hard to configure just follow the diretions. What makes it very good is it uses the P2P concept the more people that use it the more complex it becomes. One trick I've found is that one can keep the browser or other apps going shut it down and find a new skin. If one is very parnoid or if there is too much of a lag that what I do, yeas when I connect through DC, or Virginia, Texas I am a bit weary and usually like to disconnect and reattach several times, just because I can.

      Hide from NSA nope make it more diffcult yes again just because I can.

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