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I Want To Browse Anonymously
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Mr_Vincent wrote:In addition to the above,
some forums and other sites completely refuse to operate unless you allow cookies to be stored on your pc.
I know cookies are not spyware but my anti-spyware programs have picked up tracking cookies in the past.
How to I fake cookie storage?
That is make cookies appear to be stored elsewhere other than on my actual pc?
Using somebody else's pc or going to an internet cafe spring to my mind, hehehe :-).0 -
Its not really possible to browser completely "anonymously". To do so would make the web a very unenjoyable experience. Proxies can be unreliable, and can be taken out with denial of service attacts, and going through multiple proxies will be SLOW. If you are trying to hide something, it only takes a bit of communication between various providers and hosts to track you down.
The only way to really do it, would be to use ssh (a secure encrypted shell) going through a good 6 or 7 boxes, using a browser such as lynx (read: no graphics and images!!). Unless you are going to do something like this, I dont believe its worth doing at all.0 -
hi peeps,
There are people here who would like to speak freely to others in China and elsewhere who are fearful of being traced.Peel back your baby's eyelid to find no nationality or religious identity mark there. Peer at your baby's eyes for them to reflect back just people-throw away your flags and religious symbols...0 -
have a look at peer guardian from methlabs0
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have a look at peer guardian from methlabs
This is used to block IP addresses from your computer, you could do this with any decent firewall. It wont do anything whatsoever to keep the user anonymous.How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?
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I know Steganos works by keep changing the proxy every few minutes but I found it unreliable.Hug provider for depression thread :grouphug:
"I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell.." - Unwell by Matchbox Twenty0 -
I have got one positive response for Steganos.
I will have to find that store that had that free full program copy.
I agree the need to be anonymous is not all that but I had a pretty near experience when I sought advice about how to get my own back on a firm.
I have since learnt that I could very easily have been traced had I really tried anything - not that anybody was dumb enough to offer me advice out in the open. It was nice to have been taken seriously :j .
I just want to know how to be anonymous as a potential future weapon.
Yes, all it takes is companies to co-operate with each other but there are millions of them worldwide and plenty of individuals with personal grudges for the world who would happily take on anybody and anyone for free - call them suicidals.
One day, who knows, I might want to be one of them.
Or play hero and pass on my knowledge to somebody in real fear of his life like people in China as Tweeter mentioned.
I have nothing to protect but somebody really !!!!!! me off not long ago hence the need to know how to protect my identity short of having to use an internet cafe.
Alared, I will look up cookiemonster but seriously any decent browser is capable of doing the services cookiemonster appears to offer, unless of course it is third party software with independent links to browsers.
Mr.V.............:beer:
:mad: If you are angry about something, let it be known....... :wall:If I fail to thank you individually, I am sorry. Your advice was appreciated but may not have been 100% the result I was after.
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I also found this today - http://tor.eff.org/ .
It is called Tor and it looks pretty good and it is free !
An extract from the Tor website answers some of the questions about anonymous surfing :
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Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
Traffic analysis is used every day by companies, governments, and individuals that want to keep track of where people and organizations go and what they do on the Internet. Instead of looking at the content of your communications, traffic analysis tracks where your data goes and when, as well as how much is sent. For example, online advertising companies like Fastclick and Doubleclick uses traffic analysis to record what web pages you've visited, and can build a profile of your interests from that. A pharmaceutical company could use traffic analysis to monitor when the research wing of a competitor visits its website, and track what pages or products that interest the competitor. IBM hosts a searchable patent index, and it could keep a list of every query your company makes. A stalker could use traffic analysis to learn whether you're in a certain Internet cafe.
Tor aims to make traffic analysis more difficult by preventing eavesdroppers from finding out where your communications are going online, and by letting you decide whether to identify yourself when you communicate.
[/anorak]To infinity and beyond!0 -
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Whats going on with people in china?
Is it one of those endurance tests where you have to hold your breath in a bucket of frogs? and fear for your life0
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