New browser offers stealth mode surfing

[Harkoliar]

A free, portable web browsing tool designed to boost privacy for internet users has been unleashed this week by human rights group, Hacktivismo. - The TorPark download is a modified version of the portable Firefox browser and can be loaded onto a memory stick, for use at home or on any public computer, said the group, which describes itself as a collection of computer security experts committed to "developing technologies in support of the highest standards of human rights". - The Torpark private browsing technology covers users' tracks by linking their computer to a distributed network of servers called the Tor Network via an encrypted tunnel which allows them to surf the internet anonymously. - The creators of the software said it was built to defend against common practises such as tracking IP addresses used by numerous websites and ISPs for traffic analysis, which can also be monitored to pinpoint a user's identity. - "Torpark causes the IP address seen by the website to change every few minutes to frustrate eavesdropping and mask the requesting source. For example, a user could be surfing the internet from a home computer in Ghana, and it might appear to websites that the user was coming from a university computer in Germany or any other country with servers in the TOR network," the group said. - Hacktivismo was formed out of the hacking group The Cult of The Dead Cow, which operates under a remit to fight "anyone or any government that aspires to limit free speech". - "We live in a time where acquisition technologies are cherry picking and collating every aspect of our online lives," said Hacktivismo founder, Oxblood Ruffin. - Although Torpark anonymises a user's internet connection, Hacktivismo warned it could not shield any data being transmitted between locations, which meant that users should abstain from using any username or password on websites that do not provide a secure login and session. -

smh article link: http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/new-b...431835805.html

Official website: http://torpark.nfshost.com/

I just found it pretty cool [img]smile.gif[/img]

[johnny]

I don't buy it.

[Dundee Slaytern]

Originally posted by johnny: I don't buy it.

Of course you don't, it's freeware.

[johnny]

Originally posted by Dundee Slaytern: quote: Originally posted by johnny: I don't buy it.

Of course you don't, it's freeware. [/QUOTE]I guess i deserved that one.

[Memnoch]

These kind of anonymisers tend to really slow the browsing experience down, though.

[shamrock_uk]

Yeah, you'll be lucky to get more than 4 or 5k/sec from the Tor network.

Having said that it's very impressive technology for the paranoid.

[Lavindathar]

If you want to hide your IP, use actually IP hiders. Lol, dunno what they are called.

But it's what I use when my IP has been banned by certain places in the past. Changes my IP every couple of minutes, and I'm allowed on.

Can't think of the url though.

[Harkoliar]

Originally posted by Lavindathar: If you want to hide your IP, use actually IP hiders. Lol, dunno what they are called. But it's what I use when my IP has been banned by certain places in the past. Changes my IP every couple of minutes, and I'm allowed on. Can't think of the url though.

for some reason why doesnt that surprise me