Advanced Browsing Anonymity

Anywhere you go on the Internet, the government can find out. This isn't news. There are such things as proxy servers, which are supposed to completely disguise your location, but I've found fault in them. My father tells me a story about causing mischief in chatrooms and being IP banned. He tried to use a proxy to regain access, but the chatroom was somehow still able to identify him and keep him out. Outside the chatroom, he asked his friends who made regular use of the chatroom how the administrators were keeping him out, and they refused to tell him.

So proxies are not foolproof. Ideas?

 

you need to turn cookies off or delete them and prevent the target from identifying your browser .
one practical way to reach a fair degree of anonymity is coupling tor with a properly configured browser that won't conserve traces of its past visits, create fake browser identification strings and changing them often, i guess.

 

well, to be honest you're not usually going to be doing anything that the government would give a shit about, and if you are; you probably should be traceable cos it's probably some bad shit that you don't ought to be doing. Do we really want people to gain *total* anonymity in which they can get all kinds of nasty material? If you're just after downloads that's one thing but I personally do not want a safe haven for pedophiles and the like.

 

Thank you. I'll look into that soon. It sounds like that will suffice at the moment, until the need grows more extreme.

 

The government cares about much more than
you'd think, and a world without freedom of expression is well on it's way. I want to be ready to fight that.

 

yes, i really want that. hands off internet . there is always a good excuse to spy and jail people under the pretense of security. yours is the dream of the worst dictatorships: china , iran , italy , north korea , lybia , etc .

 

I do say that government does have it's place when a child is abducted or that sort of thing, but there's no call for watching everyone--they don't man our basements to ensure that no kids get taken down, do they? If they did, there would be an uproar like there should be now, only they're keeping quiet enough about it.

(We have to be careful that this doesn't become a political debate)

 

-find where ppl sell daily socks proxies for spamming craigslist.
-subscribe to an encrypted OpenVPN service like blackVPN
-use a remote desktop to avoid being ID'd through browser fingerprint (test your unique browser ID here: https://panopticlick.eff.org/)
-ssh shell account
-'borrowed' wireless, then connected thru VPN
-Tor, but only if javascript is disabled and only with .onion routed sites
-build a OpenBSD pf firewall that scrambles all your identifying information randomly

 

Pretty intense stuff there...! Very much appreciated friend!

And Jagerhans, I've started using Tor, and I already feel at least twice as secure. Thank you kindly for the suggestion.

 

yep, that would be fine, too bad that blackVPN will surrender your data if legally asked. a good VPN service should sit inside a rogue state that will just piss laughing loud over judiciary cooperation requests coming from your country. being good friends of kim jong il could help...

 

VPN wont protect you as you think it will.
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/headlines/article.php/3888876/article.htm

using things like google SSL encrypts your search queries
https://www.google.com

firefox has an add on called SSL everywhere which encrypts most sensitive pages

There are alternative internets like gnunet, freenet, JAP, tor, ants, etc. I personally use I2P, its an internet inside an Internet, basically darknet. I think its the best, its builds off of all its predecessors. The people involved seem very knowledgeable as well in terms of sociology and constituent control. I2P encrypts all traffic and does not use IP addresses when you are surfing on the .i2p internet, it uses encrypted network keys. If you use the proxy for regular .com traffic you use an exit node that is located in germany, so when you are on the regular internet you will appear to be in germany if any third parties are watching you. I2P uses garlic routing, imagine if your info is a garlic, and each cloves breaks off and is sent to other parts of the world is encrypted and then sent to where you want it if for any reason someone intercepts your info it will only be a piece of the whole, in addition that piece of info is encrypted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRN2G9VW5E"]YouTube- Telecomix i2p Tutorial

more on I2P
www.telecomix.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLeLMlavuY"]YouTube- Telecomix Documentary - The Rise of Cipherspace Computing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTECbP0MQg"]YouTube- Telecomix Network Commercial

 

thanks for the great post. while the VPN flaw does not seem so much dangerous and will be fixed for sure, i never suspected there was a SSL version of google. I've been using jap for awhile, i'm not impressed. now this I2P at first sight is about like Freenet , right ? these tools can be good for insurgents, freedom fighters and terrorists (and maybe for the customers of a tech-crazed weed dealer, lol) but they are by no means tools to stay anonymous on the www. those as you pointed out are just slow, shallow darknets , carefully insulated from the general web .

 

Ive never used freenet so im not sure but it is safe to say that yes there is negative stuff within the I2P network but then again there is some great stuff too. From what I understand freenet is about fighting censorship, I2P is about fighting governments and corporate interests from taking away our digital rights. SWIM uses I2P for the internal bittorrent trackers that do not exist on the regular internet. While you are within the .I2P darknet there is no IP addresses (unless you use an exit node and venture into the .com internet) so if you download a torrent from within I2P it comes in encrypted end to end and since there is no IP address there is no reason to fear being spied on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1e_FYy1qMc"]YouTube- HD version - Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau

 

There allready is ways around it Im just not sure what they are since I dont use a VPN. The real danger though of an insecure VPN is that your real IP address can be leaked so if you torrent, or provide someone like wikileaks with info your doomed.

http://torrentfreak.com/huge-security-flaw-makes-vpns-useless-for-bittorrent-100617/
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/20...wikileaks-probe-after-tip-from-former-hacker/

 

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if your really worried about annonymity, use a proxy, basicly the information sent from your computer will go to the net via a differant computer therefore masking your I.P address and your location, easy'iest way to do this is to use a site called invisible URL, there are far more advanced and effective ways but this will do a good enough job for just annoynomous browsing, also if your at a library and cant get onto certain sites because there blocked this will bypass that, hope it helps

 

I have heard of this and its impossible to goto servers THAT DONT HAVE SSL ENABLED IN THE FIRST PLACE TO DO THIS!

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