Installing Tor on OBSD3.8

[Thomas Wood]

> Thank you all so very much for rapid and informative responses to my
> query. I hadn't realised that OBSD development cycles had come and gone
> so quickly and that they are now approaching 4.0 - just can't keep a
> good thing down :)
>
> Marius and others have noted the drop-off in speed. That is really a
> no-no. One of the pleasures of DSL is the speed. So, an alternative
> approach: how does one go about anonymizing one's IP address in the way
> described? The three computers behind the firewall at present still are
> assigned to my DSL's fixed IP address. This means of course that the IP
> address is not anonymized to the outside world. Is there a way to
> anonymize that or would privoxy do the trick?
>
To my knowledge, Privoxy will mangle the HTTP headers a little, but
packet headers will still refer to your IP address.
Is there really any need to anonymize your IP address to this extent.
I have a semi-dynamic IP address (have kept my current one since
September), and I have no need to anonymize myself, since I do not see
IP addresses as a huge risk to security.
Of course, this may be a different case for static IP addresses, since
they can be registered to individuals. (Although, I have had a quick
look at the IP addresses on this email's header and found the IP to be
registered to Pipex, so no concerns there).


-- 
Tom