Anonymity : Protect Your Identity

At this site you will find information on how to be anonymous [ anonymity is a result of not having identifying characteristics - such as an IP address - disclosed ] as well as several many other important security aspects that may arise when you are on the Internet. Learn to give sites you visit the appearance that you reside in a foreign country. Get through to web sites blocked by your ISP. Visit the web sites you want to with ease.

Anonymity : Rewebbers
For those of you who are unable to, or just do not want to configure the browser to use a proxy, you may use web based proxies to surf. Some countries have now enabled proxies so that all users of that country must go through proxy servers which heavily restrict which sites are visited. Ways to overcome this are to encrypt the url prior to requesting it so the ISP level censored proxy can't block it.

Anonymity : Proxy Servers
Once you have properly configured your browser to use a proxy server, when you activate the browser and type in a url to jump to, your browser summons the proxy server. It passes the url to the proxy server and the proxy server then retrieves the page you requested and sends it back to you. Any transfers you make while configured for proxy will be conducted through it, therefore, since it is the proxy and not you thats hitting sites, all the site will see is the proxy and you remain invisible! Think of the proxy server as a "middle man". Sites you visit will see only the country and proxy you are using.

Anonymity : Remailers
Sometimes you want to send something without having your real name attached to it. For example, you are an official spokesperson for a company, and now you want to say something "off the record". Or maybe you want to discuss something that is going on in your company, without identifying yourself as the sender of the message.

Anonymity : Anonymous Operating System
Titled Anonym.OS, the system is a type of disc called a "live CD" -- meaning it's a complete solution for using a computer without touching the hard drive. Developers say Anonym.OS is likely the first live CD based on the security-heavy OpenBSD operating system.

OpenBSD running in secure mode is relatively rare among desktop users. So to keep from standing out, Anonym.OS leaves a deceptive network fingerprint. In everything from the way it actively reports itself to other computers, to matters of technical minutia such as TCP packet length, the system is designed to look like Windows XP SP1. "We considered part of what makes a system anonymous is looking like what is most popular, so you blend in with the crowd," explains project developer Adam Bregenzer of Super Light Industry.

Booting the CD, you are presented with a text based wizard-style list of questions to answer, one at a time, with defaults that will work for most users. Within a few moments, a fairly naive user can be up and running and connected to an open Wi-Fi point, if one is available.

Once you're running, you have a broad range of anonymity-protecting applications at your disposal.

But using the system can be a slow experience. Anonym.OS makes extensive use of Tor, the onion routing network that relies on an array of servers passing encrypted traffic to permit untraceable surfing. Sadly, Tor has recently suffered from user-base growth far outpacing the number of servers available to those users -- at last count there were only 419 servers worldwide. So Tor lags badly at times of heavy use.

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