Surf the Internety Anonymously
cn | 21 January, 2006 16:09If you use the internet today, it is possible that someone is trying to spy on you - whether it's to snatch information off your computer, use your computer's resources without your knowledge, or by the good ole' Big Brother government to make sure you're not actually exercising any of your rights as an American.
A while back I wrote about a technology called Tor (here ), which enables you to get on the internet in relative anonymitiy by bouncing your signal around the world before poping you onto the page you're looking for.
Well, today on boingboing.net I read about an even more secure solution (here):
My friend Quinn reports in Wired News on a new project to make an anonymizing bootable CD: boot your computer with it and defeat spyware and cloak yourself in anonymity on the netBasically, the CD utilizes Tor an a host of other utilities to protect the user - giving him or her full anonymity in a prying world. As the author of the article puts it:
To many privacy geeks, it's the holy grail -- a totally anonymous and secure computer so easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks.
This is especially relavent with the newly arrived issues between the US government and Google...
My initial post here.
Boingboing post here.
Original Wired article here.
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