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Now a days you can read more and more articles about security and privacy. However the most people on the internet have a firewall and a nice virus checker and they really believe that they are secure from any kind of attacks. I hope that YOU know that this is not the reality.

First of all you have an IP address that identifies you like your own name, so you are not anonym in the internet. The whole path through the internet can be traced and a profil of your personality can be created, this means you have no privacy and you give away details of your own without your permissions. This scares me and I think it’s better to stay a little bit more anonym on the world wide web.

To get your privacy back and stay anonym you can use TOR. This is a free network that you can join by downloading the program and install it. Basically it is based on the idea to send the traffic encrypted over more middleman to one exit node and then to the “normal” internet. This means that the server on the “normal” internet is not able to see your own IP address. Another important thing is that you change the route in a definde interval through the middleman and the exit node. From this it follows that you get every interval a new IP adress and this helps to keep you privacy and anonymity.

If you want to support this network you can do this on many ways. First you can run a simple client to get your privacy and anonymity, this is the most simple case for you. Second you can create a server for this network, either a middleman or a exit node. If you want to know more types of supporting this project please visit their homepage.

In the following part of this article I will describe the configuration of a middleman server.

Middleman server:

I premise that you have successfully installed the tor program (Same way as you install the client, the different is only in the configuration).

The only thing that you have to do to get a server is to open the right ports on you firewall if you have one and to edit the configuration.

• torrc
  SocksPort 0 #For Server
  SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1
  Log notice syslog
  Nickname $YOUR_NICKNAME$
  Address $YOUR_IP$
  ORPort 9001 #Required for the server
  ExitPolicy reject *:* #Middleman, without this it would be an exit node.

Of course there are a lot of more options to specify the configuration but these are the most important ones ( complete list of options). After you finished this you can start tor. In the logfile you should find something like “Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.” this, but it takes a while to check your server. If you want to check the list with the servers you can go to http://moria.seul.org:9032/tor/status/authority and search for your nickname or your ip.

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.

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