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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 29th, 2008
  • Comments: 59

Web Proxy Server List

Keeping up with web proxy servers on the Internet can be a time consuming task. Proxies come and go that quickly that one could say it is nearly impossible to keep up unless someone would use scripts to check the web proxies automatically. The web proxy server list posted on Ghacks dates back two years [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 19th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Freedom Stick Is Better Than Freedom Fries

No, I’m not referring to something called French Stick – whatever that might be – that has been renamed to Freedom Stick in an effort to punish the French for not siding with the US in their war against terror. Freedom Stick is a software for an USB device that aims at defeating the virtual [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Security, firefox, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 29th, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Configure Tor to use a specific country as an exit node

Many Internet services offer access to their services only if you are visiting the websites or applications from certain countries. IPs, and sometimes more variables like the system time, are checked when a user wants to access a country restricted service. If the IP is located in an allowed country access is allowed, otherwise it is rejected.

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Categories: Browsing, Security, The Web, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 7th, 2007
  • Comments: 6

Opera, Tor and Privoxy combined

OperaTor is a combination of Opera, the anonymization service Tor and Privoxy similar to Foxtor which offers the same functionality for Firefox. I don’t want to bore you with a lengthy technical description of how Tor is providing anonymity, just that much: Tor uses a layered approach sending your request through a series of servers that only know the server before and after them. This means that the destination server does not know that you requested the package, it only knows the IP of the server before that made the request.

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Categories: Browsing, Security, opera

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