Installing Tor on OBSD3.8

[marius]

On 8/23/06, joe_schmoe <geek_show at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

A new version of OBSD comes out every six months.

> 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?
>

Here's a quote from the Privoxy.org homepage:

"Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies,
controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious Internet junk."

As far as I know, Privoxy does not anonymize your IP, but prevents
some information leakages out of your browser (by blocking cookies
etc...).

Anonymizer.com used to have a free service years ago that worked with
most browsers/platforms, but  I just looked at their site and it
appears that now it's a Windows-only download.

You might want to Google for "anonymous proxy" or "open proxy", and
find a list of open proxy servers that you can bounce your traffic
through. Of course then you have to trust the proxy to not monitor
your traffic, and not be an NSA listening post. ;-)

I've used some open proxies to test localisation features on a client
site (detecting the location of the IP address), but I assumed that
anything I entered was neither anonymous nor private.

//mts