links - anonymizing

anomymizers

• Web-based Anonymizer Discontinued http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/19/231204&from=rss Discussion of discontinuation of web-based Anonymizer. With informative explanations from Anomizer Inc. "With no fanfare, and apparently no outcry from the privacy community, Anonymizer Inc. discontinued its web-based Private Surfing service effective June 20, 2007. No reason was given, either on the Anonymizer web site or on founder Lance Cottrell's privacy blog. Private Surfing customers are now required to download a anonymizing client that handles all TCP traffic, but the program is Windows-only (with Vista support still a work-in-progress). And of course it's closed-source, which means it has few advantages over several other alternatives." SlashDot : 19 jul 2007

anonymizers

• Anonymizer http://www.anonymizer.com/ Anonymozer proxy network access software; also software for encryption, security, anyti-spyware. Web-based client was discontined in June 2007 because of decreased functionality due to the increased complexity of websites. (Did i get it right?!) Anonymizer.Com : 2007
• Dynaweb http://www.dit-inc.us/paper.htm A proxy-based service by Dynamic Internet Technologie. "Goal: Provide an efficient, effective network to circumvent Internet blockade to browse the World Wide Web." Focus on China. Dynaweb : 2004
• Tor http://tor.eff.org "Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features." Home page Roger Dingledine : 2006

censorship circumvention

• Peek-a-Booty at SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/peekabooty/ From cDc. No longer active. "Peekabooty is a peer-to-peer application which can route web page requests around firewalls. This is done by asking hosts in the network that are not censored to fetch censored web pages." "As of 2006-06-11 07:53, this project is no longer under active development." peekabooty.net is now a porn site. Peek-a-Booty :
• Psiphon http://psiphon.civisec.org/faq1.html "A censorship circumvention solution that allows users to access blocked sites in countries where the Internet is censored. psiphon turns a regular home computer into a personal, encrypted server capable of retrieving and displaying web pages anywhere. psiphon is part of the CiviSec Project run by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. The CiviSec Project is funded by the Open Society Institute." It is NOT an anomyizer however. The intervening servers have your ip info. Psiphon : 2006
• The Free Network Project http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ "An anonymous publication system" ... "file-sharing network" ... "Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are 'routed-through' other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is."
  Home page and download FreeNet : July 2006

cookies

• Anonymizing Google's Cookie http://www.imilly.com/google-cookie.htm If you use Google, and you accept its cookie, you should give some thought to the implications, both good and potentially bad : this page tries to help you do that, together with an easy way to anonymize it without missing out on its benefits. Milly : 2005

vpn

• Relakks "darknet" service http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4798059.stm "A 'darknet' service that allows users to share music files anonymously on the web has been launched in Sweden. Relakks, as the service is known, allows users to send and receive files through a heavily-encrypted connection." vpn, file-sharing, anonymizer BBC : August 2006
• SafeWeb (Triangle Boy) http://www.safeweb.com/ "Clientless SSL-based VPN technology." 2003 - owned by Symantec. "On October 15, 2003, Symantec Corporation acquired the technology and interests of SafeWeb, Inc."
  "Safeweb launched triangle boy service last year and reached 100K pageview a day for a few months. Users reported that a new triangle boy IP could survive for at least two days. This two-day window is the reason why the triangle boy was successful. This two-day window is what Dynaweb concentrates on." Home page at safeweb.com SafeWeb : 2004