Internet Anonymity (Technical info)

TOR | self | self

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Brothers, it is time to help you disappear! No, I have not invented a magic cloak, but DARPA (under bush) invented an anonymizing engine called TOR (www.tor.org) that accomplishes that with your Internet traffic.

You can download the following file: http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/dist/tor-im-browser-1.1.12_en-US. exe (Note the extra space between the . and the "exe". Remove that and paste into your browser window for direct down load (DDL). Or, alternately go here for more information (http://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html.en).

Now, the .exe link is better because it is a standalone copy of firefox with all the proxies and whatnot configured. All you do is run the file after you extract/install.

Enjoy, and be vigilant.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

http://www.torproject.org/

[Frantzie]

Will this work? Napolitano and O are trying to silence us. This is getting more and more like an emerging Islamic USSR.

[KoRn]

Many of us in the tech world are aware of and use the tor network, but it bears repeating.

I use the tor Firefox addon.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Yes, I encourage you to read the site. Your mileage may vary depending on your technical abilities. In a nutshell the program reliably scrambles where you are, and what you do.

[AFreeBird]

Won’t work for me.

[Nipfan]

Bump

[NowApproachingMidnight]

I used to use the firefox add-on, the new standlone aforementioned is slick though. You can actually copy the folder to a USB stick and plug it in to any computer, execute, and you are golden. ~_^

[Frantzie]

Thanks for all the help. So if they raid FR’s servers in the future they will have no idea who you are and i if I use it?

[NowApproachingMidnight]

SPONSORS of TOR:

* More than 500 personal donations from individuals like you (2006-2008)
* NLnet Foundation (2008)
* Google (2008)
* Google Summer of Code (2007, 2008)
* International Broadcasting Bureau (2006-2008)
* Cyber-TA project (2006-2008)
* DARPA and ONR via Naval Research Laboratory (2001-2008)
* Human Rights Watch (2007)
* NSF via Rice University (2006-2007)
* An anonymous European NGO (2006-2007)
* Bell Security Solutions Inc (2006)
* Omidyar Network Enzyme Grant (2006)
* Electronic Frontier Foundation (2004-2005)

[BreezyDog]

How does the government allow a tax deductible donation for this? It’s on the website.
Lost my trust already...

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Your mileage may vary

[AFreeBird]

okay, never mind my last. They have the Linux client buried.

Tor Linux

[KoRn]

Yeah, that’s very nice!

[Ancient Drive]

yup. the USB option will work much better for some of us.

[HelloooClareece]

If Google, Human Rights Watch and “an anonymous European” sponsor TOR I can’t support it.

[CaribouCrossing]

bookmark

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Quix]

SO,

You have personally checked this to be certain it’s not the opposite from some black ops gov agency of the oligarchy?

LOL.

Sounds nice.

I’m skeptical anything can provide any privacy in our era.