Any one here using the "Tor Browser?"

[Ponce]

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=11&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=Tor+Browser&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=Tor+Browser&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=a7eb3892caa76fe&biw=1018&bih=476

[Bigjon]

Tor is an anomizer proxy and it is slooooooooooowwwwwww.

Or at least it was when I tried it some time back (4 years maybe)

I think it is controlled by the US Navy, sort of like volunteering to say here I am and I am hiding WHAT??

No thanks.

[Ponce]

All that I need to know.......thanks.

[Ares]

It's not controlled by the Navy. It's open source and people volunteer their network connection for the project. I use it occasionally. I used it back when the Mitt Romney NAZI's kept banning me for asking simple questions about his healthcare and monetary policies. They finally gave up trying to ban me because I'd be back in less than a minute.

[Ponce]

Hummmmmmmmm Ares, very tempting........I now feel like trying it.

[Bigjon]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

An alpha version of the software, with the onion routing network "functional and deployed", was announced on 20 September 2002.[2] Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson presented "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router" at the 13th USENIX Security Symposium on 13 August 2004.[7] Though the name Tor originated as an acronym of The Onion Routing project, the current project no longer considers the name to be an acronym, and therefore does not use capital letters.[8]

Originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory,[7]

Tor was financially supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2004 to 2005.[9] Tor software is now developed by the Tor Project, which has been a 501(c)(3) research/education nonprofit organization[10] based in the United States of America[1] since December 2006 and receives a diverse base of financial support.[9]

In March 2011 The Tor Project was awarded the Free Software Foundation's 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit on the following grounds: "Using free software, Tor has enabled roughly 36 million people around the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity. Its network has proved pivotal in dissident movements in both Iran and more recently Egypt."[11]
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Operation

Tor aims to conceal its users' identities and their network activity from surveillance and traffic analysis by separating identification and routing. It is an implementation of onion routing, which encrypts and then randomly bounces communications through a network of relays run by volunteers throughout the globe. These onion routers employ encryption in a multi-layered manner (hence the onion metaphor) to ensure perfect forward secrecy between relays, thereby providing users with anonymity in network location. That anonymity extends to the hosting of censorship-resistant content via Tor's anonymous hidden service feature.[7] By keeping some of the entry relays secret (bridge relays), users can evade Internet censorship that relies upon blocking public Tor relays.[12]

Because the internet address of the sender and the recipient are not both in cleartext at any hop along the way (and at middle relays neither piece of information is in cleartext), someone eavesdropping at any point along the communication channel cannot directly identify both ends. Furthermore, to the recipient it appears that the last Tor node (exit relay) is the originator of the communication rather than the sender.
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Originating traffic

Users of a Tor network run an onion proxy on their machine. The Tor software periodically negotiates a virtual circuit through the Tor network, using multi-layer encryption, ensuring perfect forward secrecy. At the same time, the onion proxy software presents a SOCKS interface to its clients. SOCKS-aware applications may be pointed at Tor, which then multiplexes the traffic through a Tor virtual circuit. The Polipo proxy server can speak the SOCKS 4 & SOCKS 5 protocols and therefore is recommended to be used together with the Tor anonymising network. Polipo is a web proxy that does HTTP 1.1 pipelining well, so it can enhance Tor's communication latency.[13][14]

Once inside a Tor network, the traffic is sent from router to router, ultimately reaching an exit node at which point the cleartext packet is available and is forwarded on to its original destination. Viewed from the destination, the traffic appears to originate at the Tor exit node.

Tor's application independence sets it apart from most other anonymity networks: it works at the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) stream level. Applications whose traffic is commonly anonymised using Tor include Internet Relay Chat (IRC), instant messaging and World Wide Web browsing. When browsing the Web, Tor is often coupled with Polipo or Privoxy proxy servers. Privoxy is a filtering proxy server that aims to add privacy at the application layer. Polipo can speak the SOCKS protocol and does HTTP 1.1 pipelining for enhancing latencies, therefore is now recommended to be used together with the Tor anonymising network by the torproject.org.[13][14]

On older versions of Tor (resolved May–July 2010),[15] as with many anonymous web surfing systems, direct Domain Name System (DNS) requests are usually still performed by many applications, without using a Tor proxy. This allows someone monitoring a user's connection to determine (for example) which WWW sites they are viewing using Tor, even though they cannot see the content being viewed. Using Privoxy or the command "torify" included with a Tor distribution is a possible solution to this problem.[16] Additionally, applications using SOCKS5 – which supports name-based proxy requests – can route DNS requests through Tor, having lookups performed at the exit node and thus receiving the same anonymity as other Tor traffic.[17]

As of Tor release 0.2.0.1-alpha, Tor includes its own DNS resolver which will dispatch queries over the mix network. This should close the DNS leak and can interact with Tor's address mapping facilities to provide the Tor hidden service (.onion) access to non-SOCKS-aware applications.[15]

[Ares]

Hummmmmmmmm Ares, very tempting........I now feel like trying it.

Go for it. If you don't like the speed you can choose another country / connection. I usually like going out of Australia or some countries in Europe have descent speeds as well. I use American connections for blogs that ban by IP address. If you get the Tor Bundle you do not have to install anything and it's an all in one browser.

[Ponce]

Ares? ok, I downloaded it....gave them $5.00 by pay pal....turn the com off and back on........am I supposed to see anything or is there anything that's supposed to happen?...................or is it working in the background?

[Cebu_4_2]

How do you search? Use the google deal or what? Google is just what I am trying to avoid for better results.... Don't have the time to school myself, looking for tips and trix til I do have time.

[Ares]

Ares? ok, I downloaded it....gave them $5.00 by pay pal....turn the com off and back on........am I supposed to see anything or is there anything that's supposed to happen?...................or is it working in the background?

Here ya go :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5xdTXOk_0

[vacuum]

Google will still know who you are unless you delete their super-cookie.

[DMac]

How do you search? Use the google deal or what? Google is just what I am trying to avoid for better results.... Don't have the time to school myself, looking for tips and trix til I do have time.

Forget using the Tor browser for now...check the first couple posts, depending on the information you are looking for (science, engineering, biographies, etc), select the engine that fits what you need.

We were all busy learning how to search for stuff years ago and it's part of the reason we're here now.

"I'll never stop learning because I never stop reading."

;)

[ximmy]

Google will still know who you are unless you delete their super-cookie.

how does one delete their super cookie... will CCleaner do it?

[Ares]

how does one delete their super cookie... will CCleaner do it?

Yes, what you're trying to clear out is the index.dat file that Internet Explorer uses and CCleaner wipes it out.

[solid]

how does one delete their super cookie... will CCleaner do it?

Anyone try Cookie Monster for this?

Funny, I was thinking you needed a super cookie monster to come along and gobble up all the cookies on our computers, did a quick search...and voila! Some clever bastard created a cookie monster software program.

http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/CookieMonster.php

[Ponce]

Take me to the CCleaner.......

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=CCleaner&mkt=en-us

[zap]

Come on Ponce, Is that short for Toro Browser, It can't be anygood.

[Ares]

Take me to the CCleaner.......

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=CCleaner&mkt=en-us

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

[Dogman]

http://www.piriform.com/ccleanerhttp://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard

[Half Sense]

I have something called "OperaTor" that is a portable version of the Opera browser already wrapped in a Tor layer. No configuration needed, just surf anywhere and you are anonymous.

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=980

[Ponce]

Well, I keep my comp 78% empty and have nothing to hide so that I took out that TOR thingy.....

[osoab]

Well, I keep my comp 78% empty and have nothing to hide so that I took out that TOR thingy.....

Nothing to hide?

[Ponce]

Well, only my phone number because "those" people allready know where I live........hahhaahahahah and my silver and tp.

[Cebu_4_2]

Okay played with this a bit, cant find any super porn, any suggestions?