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Stealth Mode - Engage!
This project makes your basic Proxy server look WAY old school! Tor is a second generation, anonymous internet communication system which was developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. How's that for credentials!! Basically, Tor can run TCP and SSL connections through a random group of anonymous proxy servers. Bluntly, this allows you to browse the internet by bouncing around servers all over the world like you see in the spy movies. Push everyone you know with some spare bandwidth to set this up and run a Tor server!
Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system
For the rest of us, install and run the Tor client and Privoxy (an anonymizing agent) to seriously approach true stealth mode :D
Tor Documentation
Privoxy - Home Page
Some reason's why you would be interested in doing this:
1) Eliminate traffic analysis. Prevent tracking cookies, directed banner ads or any type of ad-ware company from including you in their underhanded usage statistics.
2) Prevent your ISP, government or corporations from tracking internet behavior.
3) Connect to resources that your ISP or governement may be censoring and not allowing you to access.
4) Communicate safely with authorities. This would allow you to 'blow the whistle' on people anonymously. Nobody could track where the information originated.
Why would the government allow this sort of thing? Big business and the government themselves will benefit from this sort of service greatly. The only way to make it truely anonymous is to get as many clients and servers using it as possible. There IS anonymity in numbers. Certainly some people could use this to anonymously post illegal material to the internet, but the benefits that this sort of service provide GREATLY outweigh any undesireable applications. External Link
Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system
For the rest of us, install and run the Tor client and Privoxy (an anonymizing agent) to seriously approach true stealth mode :D
Tor Documentation
Privoxy - Home Page
Some reason's why you would be interested in doing this:
1) Eliminate traffic analysis. Prevent tracking cookies, directed banner ads or any type of ad-ware company from including you in their underhanded usage statistics.
2) Prevent your ISP, government or corporations from tracking internet behavior.
3) Connect to resources that your ISP or governement may be censoring and not allowing you to access.
4) Communicate safely with authorities. This would allow you to 'blow the whistle' on people anonymously. Nobody could track where the information originated.
Why would the government allow this sort of thing? Big business and the government themselves will benefit from this sort of service greatly. The only way to make it truely anonymous is to get as many clients and servers using it as possible. There IS anonymity in numbers. Certainly some people could use this to anonymously post illegal material to the internet, but the benefits that this sort of service provide GREATLY outweigh any undesireable applications. External Link
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