Installing Tor on OBSD3.8

[Nick Guenther]

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 :)

You are probably thinking that 4.0 means a big new release with tons
of new features right? Don't. This has been beaten to death on misc@
recently and at the change to 3.0. OpenBSD's numbering works like
math: every new version adds .1. 4.0 is the aggregation of all the
work since 3.9, just as 3.9 was the aggregation of all the work since
3.8.

> 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?
>

Think about it from a first principles standpoint: you have some
connection you want to make to somewhere for something but you don't
want people to get back to you. There's no way to do it directly, so
your only option is a proxy server. If you go the proxy route, though,
you'll have to keep updating your proxy lists and it won't work for
every protocol. And it will still slow things down.

What are you really trying to do? Anonymizing your IP might be okay,
but is it really worth it? If you send an email with your identity in
it from your anonymized address are you still anonymous? Or, from the
other side of the issue, if you post a photo of yourself to an
imageboard but don't post your name anywhere in connection to pictures
of you anywhere, have you really given up your anonymity? Privacy is a
trick issue!
I've given up trying to be anonymous. If people want to google me they
can, and I make it so that only things I am proud of show up for me.
If the government or the mafia or evil space demons want to find me,
let them. I'll fight, not hide.

-Nick