Monthly Archives: August 2009

Interview: Listen To Eric Jung, The Man Behind FoxyProxy

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 31, 2009

FoxyProxy is a well-know Firefox add-on that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities and automatically switches an Internet connection across one or more proxy servers. Guys from FLOSS Weekly, Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte, have interviewed Eric Jung, the creator of FoxyProxy. You can listen Eric beautifully explaining what a proxy is, talking about censorship, [...]

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How To Pay For a VPN Service If You Don’t Have a Credit Card

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 30, 2009
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If you are seeking for total online anonymity then VPN services are a right way to go. There are several free such services, but as anything free, they come with significant drawbacks (a lot of ads, slow connection speed, etc.). What if you decide to pay for a premium VPN service? What are your options [...]

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Developer Denies Ultrasurf Is Malicious

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 29, 2009

During last months rumors regarding Ultrasurf being a malware got stronger and stronger. Now, a developer from Ultrareach team explained the Ultrasurf strange behavior. Ultrasurf is a proxy tool that is used to hide the IP address and masks where traffic is being sent to and received from. The main goal of Ultrasurf was to keep the Chinese [...]

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SurfBouncer Provides VPN Services For International Travelers

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 28, 2009

Surfbouncer.com announced today that their service, Personal VPN, is able to help travelers to bypass restrictions and browser completely secure. People travelling to many countries find that internet access is filtered and censored. This has been known to occur in countries such as Bahrain, Belize, Brazil, China, Egypt, Guyana, Jordan, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Qatar, (KSA) [...]

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Your iPhone Web Browser Reports Your Physical Location. But Who Are They Telling?

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 27, 2009

Firefox 3.5 and Safari on the iPhone can now report your physical location. Such functionality, available in the newest Firefox and in Safari on the iPhone, opens the door to some serious privacy concerns. Firefox 3.5 works in conjunction with the Google Location Service. If you visit a site that can use your location, a [...]

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Pros and Cons of PirateBay’s IPREDator

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 26, 2009

The Pirate Bay launched a while ago a new service called IPREDator. It’s a VPN service designed to give you a private and 100% secure internet access. It uses 128bit encryption to make sure that no one, not even your IPS, is  able to peek in your data transfers. After receiving my invite (unfortunately the beta invites are now [...]

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Ghostery Shows Who is Tracking You While Browsing

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 24, 2009

Ghostery is a Firefox add-on that watches the web sites that are tracking you. Also it alerts you when you visit a web site that has web bugs on it. Web bugs are hidden scripts that track your behavior and are used by the sites you visit to understand their own audience. The extension embeds itself into your [...]

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Add Ixquick To Your Firefox Search Box

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 23, 2009

Ixquick, a Dutch search engine, is the only search engine that does not record your IP address. While search engines such as Google  and Yahoo keep user data for nine months, respective three months, Ixquick operates without the data altogether. So, if you are comitted to your privacy you have to have Ixquick right at [...]

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Freedur Fight – Who is the real owner?

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 22, 2009

Update 3/22/2010: It seems that the situation has been clarified and Chris Mathews continues his work with Freedur, while the others have launched a new product. Sometime ago I have introduced Freedur, a hide IP tool that impressed me with its simplicity, speed and effectiveness. Also, I interviewed Chris Mathews who presented himself as “a member of Freedur team”. [...]

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Introducing Torfox – The Anonymous Browser

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 21, 2009

Tor is one of the top technologies when it comes to anonymity. Due to its architecture, Tor provides (almost) total privacy. And the best thing is that it’s free! Not only by individual users but also by third party tools. Torfox is one of these applcations that use Tor to provide anonymous browsing. Torfox is, [...]

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