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From: Honorato Echavez on 22 Apr 2005 23:53 Has anyone tried tor? http://tor.eff.org From what I understand tor was initially designed and developed as part of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Onion Routing program. It is an anomynous Internet communication system. I was able to successfully install it on my Slackware 10 home system using DSL. After installing privoxy to use on Firefox and Mozilla, I browsed to junkbusters and the junkbusters privacy testing website never got my correct IP address. In fact junkbusters detected one IP address using my Firefox browser and another IP address when I loaded up my Mozilla browser. Looks like privoxy and tor's onion routers are working. Perhaps some other folks have ideas on Internet privacy. Regards, Honorato Echavez
From: cashmir on 23 Apr 2005 09:03 Honorato Echavez wrote: > Has anyone tried tor? http://tor.eff.org > > Honorato Echavez well...i just installed it and it seems to work ok. it also kills a lot of ad.'s, but things seem to go much slower ? i'll experiment a while with it, and hope for some more opinions on this. cashmir
From: MikeyD on 23 Apr 2005 09:12 cashmir wrote in <426a47ba$0$97029$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl>: > Honorato Echavez wrote: >> Has anyone tried tor? http://tor.eff.org >> >> Honorato Echavez > > well...i just installed it and it seems to work ok. > it also kills a lot of ad.'s, but things seem to go much slower ? Yeah, things are a lot slower, that's the tradeoff. IMO this kind of stuff's not so good for web-like things, the bandwidth is fine but the latency isn't.
From: cashmir on 23 Apr 2005 09:55 MikeyD wrote: > > Yeah, things are a lot slower, that's the tradeoff. IMO this kind of stuff's > not so good for web-like things, the bandwidth is fine but the latency > isn't. yep.....but it's working ok. check www.showmyip.com one time i'm recognised as german, next time as american. in any case it's very interesting. ( reading........ ) cashmir
From: Ciro The Spider-Man on 26 Apr 2005 20:59
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:55:02 +0200, cashmir mumbled: > > > MikeyD wrote: > >> >> Yeah, things are a lot slower, that's the tradeoff. IMO this kind of stuff's >> not so good for web-like things, the bandwidth is fine but the latency >> isn't. > > yep.....but it's working ok. > check www.showmyip.com > one time i'm recognised as german, next time as american. > > in any case it's very interesting. > ( reading........ ) > > cashmir I've been using it since it was mentioned on /. a few months back and I've found it to be largely worthless for anything OTHER than web surfing. Not because of any flaws in the tech, but becasue it didn't take long to be so thoroughly abused that most IRC servers, for example, ban it outright. =\ It just takes a few asshats to ruin a good thing. -- Sufficiently advanced Technology is indistinguishable from Magic. Sufficiently advanced Incompetence is indistinguishable from Malice. Sufficiently advanced Socialism is indistinguishable from Anarchy. Sufficiently advanced Capitalism is indistinguishable from Aristocracy. |