Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system
 

I figured since this came from the EFF it should go here instead of the Internet category.

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 more. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.

Very interesting--I currently have an account at cotse.net but the idea of chained servers would improve on that for many reasons. (It would also, given the track record of mixmaster anonymous remailers, be a real challenge to implement reliably.)

OK, I'm checking this out. (I saw another reference to it & decided to give it a whirl.)

It's cool.

Very interesting, bascially a random chain of proxies, combine this with logless proxies, net cafes, freenet and ahoodie and you've got the closest you're going to get to anon net use.

Yes well now that you've completely anonymized your communication from your computer on out to whereever, how to clean up (or better yet prevent in the first place) evidence from your own computer?

Set up a RAM drive, and put the internet caches on it?

if you want to do one thing and not leave a trail thermite works well.

Hey that's a great suggestion!!!

Ummmm Tony.... bad news... there are some Cellar posts I don't want to leave arond for posterity. I'll be over on Sunday afternoon with the thermite . . . . :mg:

Or buy a stealth surfer (http://www.stealthsurfer.biz) or download the new USB drive compatible version of Firefox (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable%5Ffirefox/).

and combined with this, suh-weet!

I have this mighty mite, and it rocks!

I'm still very skeptical .... a modern web browser is so big and does so many things, I'm not convinced having the cache and temp files on an external disk is enough to keep traces out of the computer itself.

not by a long shot at many levels.