Anonymizer

[DasFox]

The Anonymizer seems more the real deal, compared to all the cheesy proxy apps, that just connect you through open proxies it can find.

From what I've read about the Anonymizer is you connect to their servers only and use their proxy and that is all.

If so this would be nice, more like a proxy server service they are providing through this app, and not just what appeared like to me as another one of these crappy open proxy software apps.

Anyone used the Anonymizer?

ALOHA

 

[Bozo Galora]

actually, the anonymizer WEBSITE I assume you mean, has had their IP records scrutinized by the FBI, several times, because they assume if you are using it you are up to no good (fraud or porn), per several news stories I have seen - and no I dont have links - I cant keep everything I stumble onto.

I have really gone thru all the proxy stuff like proxy chains and tunnels etc., but have found only one thing that works easily and is anonymous - that's surfnow
http://loomsoft.com/
All the other anonymizer software uses a proxy server service to connect to at the company that sells the sw - so once again, all your travels are logged.
Surfnow does a quick search for high anon proxies and fairly quickly tests them for speed, or you can add your own proxylists to try.

these guys use a little java to show just how open your info is
http://www.danasoft.com

And FWIW:

A guy I know got caught downloading the last Star Wars movie on the internet (during release), and his IP provider shut him down for 2 weeks, telling him that any further violations would mean permanent shutoff of his service and legal action. The funny part is that he was using a high anon proxy at the time. So he called the IP support line and went to a level 1 techie, who was quite friendly, and spent about 30 min talking to him about how in the hell they found his IP address using a high anon proxy. Well, as it turns out, in post 9-11 America, there is no way to hide your IP address anymore, no matter what you do. They have 35 ways to find out who you are and what you are doing - phone/cell phone/FAX/internet/email. Whether you believe that or not is of no consequence to me, I have proved it to my own satisfaction - and thats all that counts.

Yeah, you can use a proxy to relog in to something like AT after a ban, but you will not hide from someone who really badly wants to know who you are.
Those days are over.
Trust me.

Your only real option is to move to a country like Russia, where, even if they do find you, nobody gives a crap about what you did anyway.

 

[mundane]

What are people's opinions on Torpark?

From an Arstechnica Article:

The browser uses a built-in version of the Tor anonymizer, which routes browser traffic through an "onion" of different routing sites in an unpredictable pattern, frustrating attempts to identify the user's original IP address. Traffic is additionally encrypted while moving through these layers. The Tor network was originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory, before being handed over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2004.

The anonymity provided by Torpark is not absolute, and there are some drawbacks. Only the web browser itself benefits from the anonymizer, not other Internet applications. The current version of Torpark does not allow the user to run a different version of Firefox at the same time. Finally, using Tor tends to slow down web browsing, often to ridiculous levels, and many web sites will break when browsed through the Tor network, including sites that use session trackers and anti-spam registration pages. Still, for those surfers who want to get anonymous browsing in a convenient, portable package, Torpark looks to be a decent choice. Torpark is distributed for free under the GNU Public License.

 

[DasFox]

Hmm this Torpark looks interesting, anyhow used it?

ALOHA