Tag Archives: tor

e-Capsule – The Private Browser

By HideIP Admin | Published: February 1, 2010
After publishing the post about 4 portable browsers that can be used to be navigate anonymously, willdo and kingpin, two constant readers of my blog, let me know about e-Capsule – The Private Browser. Thank you guys! Let’s take a look at it and see how it works. The e-Capsule Private Browser is a browser characterized by it’s “zero-footprint”. This means [...]
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Surf the Web Wearing an Invisibility Cloak with These 4 Portable Anonymous Browsers

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 28, 2010
The web is anonymous. That’s the greatest myth going around for those not in the know. A newbie equates anonymity with invisibleness. Our email ID or username may cover up for our real identity, we can give fake ages and even genders, or hide behind a dopey eyed avatar but in the end, that’s mere [...]
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Tor Project Servers Hacked

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 23, 2010
According to a report on Heise Online, the German IT security portal, two of the seven directory authority servers (moria1 and gabelmoo) that the Tor Project uses to run its anonymous browsing service have been compromised, along with a new server that the project uses to host metrics and graphs (metrics.torproject.org). Tor team discovered the attack in early [...]
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Russia: Livejournal versus Tor and the New Battle for Anonymity

By HideIP Admin | Published: December 29, 2009
As more and more countries join the list of nations where the governments have started restricting certain websites and content, the cyber world is witnessing a rise in the number of users who have to resort to anonymous methods of surfing the World Wide Web. One of the first countries in the world where websites were [...]
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Google Chrome Bugs Out Users Seeking Anonimity

By HideIP Admin | Published: December 17, 2009
Developers warning: A bug in the new version of Google Chrome could leak the identity of the users who surf anonimously. (Via TheRegister.co.uk) The problem is regarding the proxy settings in Chrome. Basically when you set up a proxy, all the traffic that is made by an IP is hidden by the proxy server, but Chrome [...]
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11 Best TOR-Based Tools For Hiding Your IP Address

By HideIP Admin | Published: September 28, 2009
Tor (The Onion Router) is one of the most popular hide IP tool used on the internet due to its simplicity and efficiency. To be more precise, we have to say that Tor is not actually a tool, is more a network of computers that working together achieve anonymity for its users. [Tor Project] How Tor Works A user [...]
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Android Application To Browse Anonymously

By HideIP Admin | Published: September 16, 2009
Android users can now enjoy anonymous browsing. A group of developers at the University of Cambridge have released two Android applications that allow users to browse the web anonymously: TorProxy and Shadow.  TorProxy is an application that makes it possible to use Internet sites and services anonymously from a mobile device. This is the Tor client, which handles [...]
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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, as [...]
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How To Use An IP From A Specific Country While Running Tor

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 8, 2009
Tor can be very useful when it comes to access country-restricted websites. I am going to show how to configure Tor to mask your point of origin as though it is coming from a specific country. Tor uses a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world and picks a random path between you and [...]
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Do you want to help Iranians keep their privacy? Run a TOR node!

By HideIP Admin | Published: July 3, 2009
A few days ago, I wrote about the political tension in Iran that resulted in blocked web sites, blocked cell phone transmissions, text messaging, etc. and the fact that Iranian Internet users use Tor to overcome censorship. Now, you can do something for these users that try to keep their privacy and express freely. Here is an initiative of Electronic [...]
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