Installing Tor on OBSD3.8

[Daniel T. Staal]

On Wed, August 23, 2006 2:52 pm, Thomas Wood said:
>> 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).

There are legitimate reasons to want that true anonymity, but actually
getting that level of it is a hard problem.  TOR solves them, by trading
efficiency for anonymity.

It's not a useless question to ask, therefore, but anyone attempting it
should beware of the trade-offs.  In *most cases* Privoxy or similar is
enough anonymity for most people.

(And, even dynamic IP's can be traced back, given enough access.  Usually
a subpoena.)

Daniel T. Staal

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