Posted on 12/22/2004 7:47:19 PM PST by Bobalu
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) just announced that it has become a financial sponsor of Tor, an open-source project to help people 'engage in anonymous communication online.' It sounds like a simpler version of Freenet, e.g. 'a network-within-a-network that protects communication from ... traffic analysis.' Like Freenet, the source-code is freely available and binaries exist for Windows, Linux, etc." Read on for more details.The submitter continues "It also allows you to install Tor-aware apps, such as an HTTP proxy (for private browsing), or maybe private P2P? Unlike Freenet, it doesn't use massive encryption (as far as I can tell) and relies more on something called onion routing to randomly bounce requests between other Tor proxies, thus obfuscating the IP of the original client. So it allows you to browse regular Internet sites! Maybe it should be considered more of an 'open-source' Anonymizer? But I don't know if it's actually Open Source - you can download the source (and compile it yourself) but I don't know if the developers are letting anyone else touch their code. They are, however, looking for contributors and other forms of help. And, finally, they're hoping people will start running Tor servers!" It's open source, however contributions are handled.
Squeeze here to download Tor
http://tor.eff.org/
I get it, and see how there could be some legitimate privacy applications, but I cringe when I see "broadcast a home movie through a hidden service". Bet the child pornographers are clamoring for this.
And because criminals can use guns, nobody else should have them, right?
Did I say no one else should have them or are you just delusional?
ping for later
This is great for things like slumming over at DU.
It keeps your real ip out of their server logs.
If you use this to read FreeRepublic it will keep
people from capturing your ip address by posting a link
to a jpg that is held on a server they have log access on.
It is just way to easy to set up an automated system to
log the ip addresses of everyone that surfs a forum like FR :-/
I just set up TOR to work with the free version of Opera
browser....
Now to surf anonymously I just start Privoxy and Tor and fire up Opera :-)
I'm posting this comment through Tor....seems amazingly fast.
Back atcha! :-)
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