Is there a genuinely free and effective identity cloaker around..?

Alan_Cross

And I do mean free, so that would be identity cloaker without capital letters..!

I am fed up of proxy servers that rarely if ever work.

chunter

Tor Browser
https://www.torproject.org/

Welcome to the dark web...

Uxb

google Tails

esuhl

As above, Tails is a good implementation of Tor:
https://tails.boum.org/

Beware of scripts and browser settings that could be used to uniquely profile you. Flash can access your "real" public IP address, and Javascript can be used to uniquely identify you between browser sessions.

There's some useful information on such browser profiling techniques (and some tests you can run) at these sites:

https://panopticlick.eff.org
http://ip-check.info

Alan_Cross

Thanks for the comments. Any further ideas gratefully received.

fiendishlyclever

Effective? Given the NSA can reportedly crack the encryption on VPN connections then someone somewhere will be logging your use.

Different services are suited to different uses - video, privacy, file downloading etc. which to recommend depends on your intended use

esuhl

fiendishlyclever wrote: »

Effective? Given the NSA can reportedly crack the encryption on VPN connections then someone somewhere will be logging your use.

Unless every node you connect to is a rogue node managed by corrupt governments, and as long as you don't leak data (by using Windows, Flash, or allowing unique profiling of your browser), then Tor (and TAILS especially) is pretty safe.

Besides... what are you going to be doing on Tor anyway?! Is it really anything that the authorities would be interested in?

Strider590

esuhl wrote: »

Unless every node you connect to is a rogue node managed by corrupt governments, and as long as you don't leak data (by using Windows, Flash, or allowing unique profiling of your browser), then Tor (and TAILS especially) is pretty safe.

Besides... what are you going to be doing on Tor anyway?! Is it really anything that the authorities would be interested in?

Most of what goes on through Tor is perfectly innocent, it's coming under attack as an access point to the "dark web", but more than half of this "dark web" is just unfiltered content, it's only "dark" because someone is censoring and filtering your "unlimited broadband", the rest is only accessible through private invite only VPNs.

Don't listen to what the media says, the media basically wants to stop people having access to information, so that it can reassert the control it had decades ago.

The internet is a thorn in the side of politicians and the media, they're trying to control it so that they can control you.