Get your privacy…
Now a day every country and every company want to get as much as possible information about you. The causes are different, some of them want to show you the best advertisement, the other one think you are a bad guy and you have to prove that you are a good guy. However this happens every time when you start your computer and connect it to the world wide web. In the last few months you read a lot about undercover online computer searching by the country. In my opinion is a computer a private place of every human being and the police or any body else should’t have the rights to search your whole private live undercover only because you send an email to your friend or you visited the wrong page at the wrong time.
If you are now frightend then you can try different anonymization service. The most of them are really slow and they are still in developing, but the more user the merrier.
First of all I will list some services and later I will describe them in detail.
- Tor network (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- JAP (=Java Anon Proxy)
- Psiphon
- Anonym P2P: Freenet project
More details in the future, because up to now I didn’t tested all of them by myself.
| Tor NetworkFirst of all I will write more details about the tor network. This one is really easy to install due to the fact that the in the install package a graphic configuration tool called Vidalia is included. After you downloaded it and installed it you just have to start the vidalia programm. Normally if you start the vidalia programm the tor service will also start, if this isn’t the fact then you can press the “Start tor” button. In the upper section of the programm you can see the tor status (Tor is running or Tor is not running).Congratulation your own tor client service is now running. The next step is to download a tor button plugin for your browser, this makes your life much easier to switch between the normal internet and the tor network. If you don’t want this plugin you have to change manually you proxy server in the browser configuration. I tested the
torbutton plugin for the firefox and I was more than satisfied. After the restart of the firefox you can see the torbutton in the right corner. You can click it the shown string Tor Disabled will switch to Tor Enabled.Finally you can check whether the service function is ok or whether you still have your private address. Tor Detector If the internet connection is to slow for you than you can get a new route through the internet by pressing the Use a New Identity Button. This will take about 5sec and then you have a new ip address and perhaps you will exit the tor network on the other side of the world. |
Tags: anonymization, network, tor