People are being monitored to an ever growing extent at home and at work. If you want to surf anonymously from a USB stick or pendrive, install TORPARK, and it is free. Torpark is a special version of the Firefox browser using the tornet proxy servers. Well anonimity has its price, surfing is slow a 20 KB on average. But if you need perfect anonimity, like people of human right organizations in a foreign land, it is the securest way to go.
Just some side notes here.
Problem with tor is that a monitoring system is still able to monitor the traffic. Your request is passed encrypted through various hops, but because the tor sever does not delay for requests received and sent on, it is quite easy to trace them back from the webpage viewed to the PC from where you view this.
The German system had a delay, but a government backdoor had to be installed. A better option is a TORPARK on an USB Stick in combination with Privoxy. Real anonymity is then only provided in a public place with the web camera’s turned away and a Wifi Stick with a unique ID (see standard ETSI).
This shows to what lengths one has to go not to be the see-through virtual entities we have become over the last ten years, if not we weren’t always just that.
Google interface differs when using some Tor exit nodes. If this would mean tor exit node cache cookies, this would mean this service had a huge hole in it. Well the dns requests come prior to using Torpark go there for everyone to see, meaning that your ISP, which is only set to be milliseconds away in modern configurations of DNS caching, has a fair guess of where your anonymous session is going.
Therefore you have to torify Firefox go to Edit> Preferences>General>Connection Settings>Manual proxy configuration and HTTP Proxy 127.0.0.1 port 8118, SSL Proxy 127.0.0.1 port 8118, FTP Proxy 127.0.0.1 port 8118 Sock V5
Everybody is entitled to some privacy for hundreds of obvious reasons (health, boss, reporting abuse), and it is getting more and more difficult to guarantee this basic right.
Never use tor for anonymous filesharing, it is ruining the best you love.
For this purpose use entropy, the fast freenet replacement that actually works. Filesharing of i2p is much safer than abusing a service not meant for it. Try to hide from the RIAA, remember they are not using the trackers, they are leeching in the background.
I have put torpark to the test. Put a packet sniffer to run under it.
Tor without the use of privoxy leaves webpage headers, that can still identify you and leaks your dns. Does Torpark address this DNS leak? Yes, and what is Torpark about. It is about power. Power to control what you read, watch, listen to and think.
Maybe the traffic at the exit node can possibly be sniffed, but it is well encrypted.
Do not use the tor network for anything that could include IP-bans, because you are under someone else’s IP’s sheet and cover. Don’t forget.
Excluded are all services outside tcp traffic, like ping, dig, nslookup, nmap, traceroute etc. For these purposes you cannot use a webbased service, because they do not like anonymous visitors and you will be taken to http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/out of jail.ch with a ban for the IP address found. There are normal circumstances where people like some privacy (health, private places, away from camera’s, statements that can be drawn in another context in another time-frame etc. etc.,well what a normal human being should be entitled to: privacy). If people can be arrested for citing Orwell 1984 in a certain context, we drastically need some protection against the preying eyes of the invisible Big Brother, whoever that may be!
Well, I can understand using a TOR software in a countries where surfing is somehow controlled. No democracy of speech, scared to speak mind out in internet.
But to say this kind of software and security in the same context?
Hope the word is not computer security as avast and all security firms work for, us not to get infected.
I have no need to those kinds of anonymizers, but maybe some people do?
Only hope they are just not terrorists etc and that security is for them.
Cause these days, how dangerous can a person be just saying his mind out loud.
You meant freedom of speech and mixed it with computer security I hope?
Cause I understand free speachis really restricted in some countries.
Otherwise I suspect TOR and JAP kind of anonymizers are just dangerous to users own computer health? Am I wrong?
This is not meant for general use. Normally polonus has nothing to hide, and what he has to forward is general knowledge, so no reason why it is not be stored by his ISP for a couple of years.
But there may arise situations where you surf for info (say for instance healthwise, or for personal reasons) that you do not want the world to know or trace back. That is the reason. And what you have put out on the web, you can regret later, and there is no way back, when it is digitalized it does not vanish into electronic oblivion. Well and the other use, better not, because those people better not go to the Internet at all. Or they have their servers somewhere else or have other means of communication.
It is just for that rare occasion you need privacy or when people abroad don’t want to be transparent in their line of work (for instance human right workers, independant researchers etc.)
All completely legit, all completely comprehensible,