Setting up Tor with Freecap and Proxomitron

[Oddysey]

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Quote:I mean it does seem kinda silly trying to anonymize yourself.....

Yes, that's correct. Even if you use a paid service to anonymize yourself, you'll still be trackable, it'll just take a bit more effort. If someone wants you badly enough, they'll get all the court orders needed to make it happen, you can take that to the bank.

Spoofing? Hah! Anonymizing? More hah! How do you think those spammers are getting caught? That's right, even with every trail-wiping trick in the book, they're still being traced, and tracked back to their source. It just takes a large enough desire to make it happen, that's all.

About the only way to do a real anonymizer is to have your ISP not log any transactions at all. Even if they wipe their log files after so many minutes, not hours, days, weeks or months - minutes, the log file still exists. If they keep track at all, then you can be found, pure and simple.

An anonymizer service claims to do this, but for some reason, larger scale pirate networks and spammers still keep getting found. You don't think that 100% of them are completely stupid, do you? Nope, even those services leave their logging functions enabled (after all, it is the default), and that's the end of any anonymity. Like I said, for some time now, it's been only a matter of how much effort is needed versus desire to find out, not a matter of technology.

Quote:..... when using internet explorer, which is notorious for security leaks of all sorts.

Hmmm, I keep hearing about this 'security leak' in some kinda vague, whiny way. I'd like you to do us all a favor, please. Prove to me that I am not secure in my fashion, as secure as you'd ever like to be (given the conditions above - my ISP won't even consider disabling it's logging function). This is not meant to be a "slap in your face" challenge, I'm merely starting a discussion of "what's acceptable" security. Your definition may be different than mine...... that's what we need to iron out here.


Oddysey