Tag: TOR

Using the Tor network of virtual tunnels, TorChat is a small, portable and open-source IM client that allows for completely anonymous and secure communications and file sharing. It works on both Windows and Linux. If you're on Windows, all you have to do is download, unzip, and run torchat.exe. It will automatically connect to the Tor network -- which will take a few minutes -- but then it ...

Android users have been able to browse anonymously using the Tor proxy network for some time, thanks to a University of Cambridge project called Shadow that we reported on late last year. Now The Tor Project itself has released an official Android client called Orbot, which should bring anonymous mobile browsing further into the mainstream. It's not available in the Android Market just yet, but ...

BitBlinder first appeared last summer promising free, anonymous torrent downloading. While it's still in beta, my invite has finally come through and I've had a chance to play with the program a bit. The installer includes the BitBlinder client, relay server, SOCKS client, and Portable Firefox (with the TorButton add-on installed). The client itself is a modified version of BitTornado and ...

A lot of people use the Internet to find porn. A lot of people use Firefox (go download Firefox 3.6!) digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/01/21/ultimate-porn-surfing-firefox-add-ons/'; In fact, I'd go as far to suggest that porn surfers -- or at least the search for naughty, illicit, adult-only material -- account for Firefox's biggest market demographic. The 'young' ...

When it comes to anonymous browsing on a desktop PC, getting set up is pretty straightforward. The widely used Tor Network provides a software bundle to install on your machine which allows you to connect via a virtual proxy to their network, which reroutes your traffic between constantly varying nodes. This makes it impossible for you to be traced as you go about your business on the web and it ...

I wrote about OperaTOR a while back as a portable option for simple TOR-enabled browsing on the go. Maybe you'd prefer a single EXE that packages Firefox, TOR, Privoxy, and Vidalia? You're in luck - Paul O'Brien has combined those ingredients into a tasty privacy-enhancing stew. He's created the package using Xenocode (and yes, it's a licensed copy) to help users avoid bothersome Internet ...

There are a few widely-accepted ways to anonymize your browsing or torrent activity, but they all have their drawbacks. TOR is free, but it's poor etiquette to use it for torrents and put a strain on the bandwidth of the nice folks who run TOR servers. Not to mention that it's incredibly, stupefyingly slow. You could get a VPN, but that'll cost you. So, what's the solution to making your ...

There are plenty of ways to utilize the Tor network for a little added browsing privacy - like OperaTor, for example. If you'd prefer a single anonymity solution that can handle any browser, portable or not, give PortableTor a try. It's Tor, Vidalia (a GUI frontend for Tor), and Privoxy in a single, portable package. All you need to do is launch PortableTor and edit your browser's proxy settings ...

I'm not a big Opera fan, but I have to say I'm pretty impressed with Operator - a portable version with built-in Tor (hence the semi-clever name) anonymous browsing. Download the 7mb zip and extract it to your flash drive, and you've got an excellent way to keep your surfing on public and work computers safe and private. I was surprised with the speed at which pages loaded, having used TorPark to ...

Whether you're trying to keep the feds off your trail or you just want to keep your mom from figuring out what naughty web sites you've been visiting, xB Browser can help. This web browser is based on Firefox, but adds a ton of security features that allow you to surf the web anonymously and quickly and easily clear all your private data. The browser evolved from the now defunct Torpark and is ...

You're all intelligent people, so we probably don't have to tell you that your boss (or at least that guy in the IT department who always gives you the stink eye) not only can, but probably does keep track of your web browsing habits. While you might think that means you should just avoid job hunting sites and web pages you wouldn't want your mom to see you looking at, a recent New York court ...

Psiphon is a new open source project from the University of Toronto that aims to give people unfettered access to censored web sites, particularly those blocked by oppressive governments. Basically it works by allowing people with uncensored internet access to act as proxies for those without. Unlike with Tor, the "psiphonite" (i.e. the person in the censored country--memo to U of T: this awful ...

A group called Packet Storm has published a paper detailing how the true IP addresses of Tor users can be discovered by the party that controls their traffic's exit node. In case all of that was Greek to you, let's back up: Tor is system that anonymizes internet traffic by routing it through a network of Tor nodes. The aim is to make it impossible to know where traffic originated, and Tor has ...

The Onion Router (TOR) provides anonymous web-surfing and privacy online and is a free download. The German authorities seized several TOR servers in in effort to crack down on a child porn ring. While I despise and oppose anyone involved in the despicable practice of child porn, I do feel for those whose servers were taken, since it seems that they are not to blame for this, but others using the ...

If you're serious about online privacy, you probably already anonymize your browsing sessions at home, but what about when you sit down at an Internet cafe or public terminal where your decidedly non-anonymous use could be tracked back to you? The solution, of course, is to take your privacy with you, and that's what TorPark is for. It's a portable app to be installed on a USB drive that combines ...