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What is anonymous ?

Wikipedia wrote :

Anonymous web browsing is browsing the World Wide Web while hiding the user’s IP address and any other personally identifiable information from the websites that one is visiting.

A degree of anonymity can be achieved by using a proxy server or a VPN server. If the proxy server is trusted, anonymity will be retained because only the information on the proxy server is visible to outsiders. Anonymous web browsing is generally useful to internet users who want to ensure that their sessions can not be monitored. For instance, it is used to circumvent traffic monitoring by organizations which want to find out or control which web sites employees visit.

Anonymous Web Servers act as placing a wall between the user and the website which he/she is visiting. These servers can be used to bypass restrictions and visit those sites that might be blocked in a specific country, office or school. Some people only use these servers to protect their on line identity.

Usually Linux using proxy server to redirecting data from ISP to destination Http. Yes of course proxy can be applied to small to medium client. But if you just only alone to connecting  just like home user, you musn’t setting up that way. Here a simple way to make your tracking being invinsible to browsing the whole internet world. For these experiment i’m using OpenSuse 11.1 act for workstation. Of course if you are using windows or Mac you can easy setup with just a few click.

I’m using Tor and Privoxy for these action because they are using GPL licence or free for use and distribute for anyone who care about keeping their privacy from phising and stealer. Why using Tor ?

Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as “traffic analysis.” Traffic analysis can be used to infer who is talking to whom over a public network. Knowing the source and destination of your Internet traffic allows others to track your behavior and interests. This can impact your checkbook if, for example, an e-commerce site uses price discrimination based on your country or institution of origin. It can even threaten your job and physical safety by revealing who and where you are. For example, if you’re travelling abroad and you connect to your employer’s computers to check or send mail, you can inadvertently reveal your national origin and professional affiliation to anyone observing the network, even if the connection is encrypted.

1.For OpenSuse user you only need 2 package installation to do

$ sudo zypper in privoxy tor

For Mac user you can grab here and Windows user with easy setup here

2. If you single user and to share your internet connection, just rename torrc.sample in /etc/tor/ to torcc

$ sudo cp /etc/tor/torrc.sample /etc/tor/torrc

3. Open privoxy configuration file in /etc/privoxy/config and then change all configuration with

# Tor listens as a SOCKS4a proxy here:
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
confdir /etc/privoxy
templdir /etc/privoxy/templates
logdir /var/log/privoxy
actionsfile standard  # Internal purpose, recommended
actionsfile default   # Main actions file
actionsfile user      # User customizations
filterfile default.filter

# Don’t log interesting things, only startup messages, warnings and errors
#logfile logfile
#jarfile jarfile
#debug   0    # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request
debug   4096 # Startup banner and warnings
debug   8192 # Errors – *we highly recommended enabling this*

user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual
listen-address  127.0.0.1:8118
#listen-address  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8118 –> if you using eth to share privoxy with other user
toggle  1
enable-remote-toggle 0
enable-edit-actions 0
enable-remote-http-toggle 0
buffer-limit 4096

4. Start your tor and privoxy engine, or you can using YAST – System – System Service to running them

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tor start

$ sudo /etc/init.d/privoxyd start

5. If you are using Mozilla Firefox, try to install Torbutton plugin and then activate the plugin itself. Look at right low Firefox windows. And if you are using another browser you can setting advance network setup and fill manual proxy with HTTP, SSL and SOCKS with 127.0.0.1 port : 8118.

Here a capture by http://whatismyipaddress.com/ when anonymity turn off

And here a result after your anonymity turn on

What more i can say dude? you are walking like a ghost rightnow

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