TORPARK - new Firefox-based browser, anonymous web-surfing

[AnitaPeterson]

A group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts has released a Firefox-based browser, designed to allow anonymous web surfing.

TORPARK, essentially a modified version of the portable Firefox, can be run directly from a USB key, creating an internet connection which uses a succession of IP addresses through the TOR network.

Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously.

The TOR ("The Onion Router") network is an anonymizing peer-to-peer network of routers on the Internet which uses various techniques to bounce traffic around the Internet in such a way that traffic analysis becomes difficult if not impossible to perform. The creators of the project say TOR is a perfect example of a dual-use technology: it can be used to avoid government-imposed Internet censorship or to protect the identity of a corporate whistleblower, but at the same time it is sadly ideal for various nefarious uses.

Have fun!

 

[DasFox]

I've messed with this thing 20 mins and not one connection it has made worked. Looks like this Tor network is a mess, not worth using unless someone can tell me how to get a connection worth anything to work.

I'm behind a router/firewall unless that messes it up, but then I didn't see any mention on their site about configuring any ports needed open for the Tor network.

Does this Tor network work at all well for anyone?

ALOHA

 

[DasFox]

Ok forget it I messed with two different versions for over and hour and dug around their forum, the Admin over there said to someone their servers are not able to keep up the demand right now.

So forget Torpark at the moment the connections to the network are really awful, who knows how long it will be before this thing works, but one thing is certain right now, it's not working very well, getting a good connection I mean.

Darn I really wanted, hoped that this would be nice, oh well, bummer.

ALOHA