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Anonymity On The Web - Nowadays, everyone wants privacy on the web, because no matter where you go, someone could be watching you. Someone like your employer, someone trying to hack your system, companies gathering all your info to sell to yet other companies, or even the government, may be on your track while you peacefully surf the web. Thus, anonymity on the web means being able tu use all of its services with no concern about someone snooping on your data... [more]

Anonymity with Tor and Privoxy - [Linux] This HOWTO explains how to browse the web anonymously by using Tor (TheOnionRouter) and Privoxy. Tor can also be used to make other network clients (instant messaging, Usenet, etc) act anonymously. This HOWTO also explains how to set up servers on your machine available anonymously through Tor's "hidden services" mechanism... [more]

Boing Boing's Guide - If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing's SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net -- or anything else online -- you can try the following workarounds... [more]

Breaking Out of a Proxy Jail - Proxy jails exist all throughout corporate networks. They serve two primary goals: to cache data (thus reducing bandwidth) and to protect the computers inside the local network from threats outside. Often you will have restricted access to only HTTP, and maybe HTTPS and FTP if you're lucky... [more]

Censorship HOWTO - A tutorial on how to bypass Internet Censorship using proxies, shells, JAP e.t.c. Different ways to beat the filtering in schools, countries or companies... [more]

Cypherpunk Tutorial - Anonymous remailers allow anyone to post to a newsgroups or send an email while remaining anonymous. Anonymous remailers keep the senders identity hidden and is almost completely untraceable... [more]

Encrypt Your Web Browsing - You're at an open wireless hotspot, but you don't want to send your web browsing data over it in plain text. Or you want to visit a non-work-approved web page from the office computer without the IT team finding out. Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you're on someone else's network... [more]

Hiding Your Identity - The main question is of course, what are you trying to hide? Closely following that is how important is it?
The precautions you take have to weigh up to the value of the data you are trying to protect, in this case, you are trying to protect your anonymity...more

How to Blog Safely - I decided to write a quick technical guide to anonymous blogging, trying to approach the problem from the perspective of a government whistleblower in a country with a less-than-transparent government... [more]

Network Comparisons - This is not a comprehensive list of anonymity resources - both freehaven's Anonymity Bibliography and GNUnet's related projects serve that purpose well. That said, a few systems stand out for further comparison: Morphmix and Tarzan, TOR / Onion Routing, Mixminion / Mixmaster, Freenet, JAP, MUTE / AntsP2P... [more]

Security for the Paranoid - Something strange happened to me recently: a friend told me I was too paranoid when it comes to security. It was strange because he was the third person to tell me that in a couple weeks. Sure, I expect most people to call me paranoid, but these were all colleagues in the security industry. Is it time to worry when security professionals consider you too paranoid? [more]

TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ - Tor presents a SOCKS interface to applications, so any application that supports SOCKS (versions 4, 4a and 5) can be anonymized using Tor. Most web browsers, many instant messaging and IRC clients, SSH clients and email clients already have built-in support for SOCKS. Since Tor does not anonymize message content, additional software agents should be used to anonymize content... [more]

Web Anonymity 103 - For most people being anonymous on the Internet is not a life-or-death matter. You arenòÀÙt dissenting against a fascist police state, or trying to hide from the secret police or from a crazy ex-lover who means to do you harm. You are anonymous because you want to keep a modicum of privacy. It is an easy goal to achieve if you put some thought into it... [more]