Having a free anonymous proxy at hand can be very helpful in certain situations. Have you ever visited a website or service where access to content was rejected because of the country you were accessing those contents from? A proxy could help you overcome those IP checks as it allows you to connect to the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Onion Router (TOR) is used by many users worldwide to browse the Internet anonymously and to retrieve data that would otherwise be blocked in their location. TorChat is an instant messenger that utilizes TOR to offer anonymity and security to its users. The client is available for Windows and Linux with the Windows version [...]

Categories: Linux, Software, Windows

The Onion Router (TOR) is an open network that users from all over the world can access to improve their anonymity online. It basically works similar to cascading proxy servers with a few finesses that make the system more flexible and harder to trace. The default client is offered at the TOR Project site for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A proxy server can be used for a number of things. People can use it to overcome censorship in their country, to access contents they could otherwise not access or to remain anonymous while performing research on the Internet. Proxy servers to provide a level of anonymity and privacy that makes them a good choice [...]

Categories: Security

The Onion Router (TOR) was designed to help against network surveillance by utilizing a network of secure tunnels. Tor is used by individuals to access blocked websites and communicate freely on the Internet by routing the connection through a series of secure tunnels where each tunnel only knows the previous and next in line. Torchat [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security, Software

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.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security, The Web

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.

Categories: Browsing, Opera, Security

More than ten dedicated servers have been seized by the German police last Thursday. Some servers were running a version of the popular anonymising software Tor (The Onion Routing) which leads to the conclusion that those Tor Servers were most likely configured to run as Exit Nodes as well as normal nodes. As you may know a request runs through different Tor Servers with each only knowing the adjacent servers but not the starting node (you) and the destination. Only the last node in the chain knows the destination.

Categories: Security