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Re: [PracticalSecurity] Anonymity - great technology but hardly used
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jörn" Schmidt)
Wed Oct 26 11:28:09 2005
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:09:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jörn" Schmidt <joern2473@yahoo.com>
To: cypherpunks@jfet.org, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
PracticalSecurity@hbarel.com
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--- "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Another issue involves the ease of use when switching between a
> [slower] anonymous service and a fast non-anonymous service. I have
> a
> tool called metaprox on my website (see URL in sig) that allows you
> to
> choose what proxies you use on a domain-by-domain basis. Something
> like this is essential if you want to be consistent about accessing
> certain sites only through an anonymous proxy. Short of that,
> perhaps
> a Firefox plug-in that allows you to select proxies with a single
> click would be useful.
You can already do the latter with SwitchProxy
(http://www.roundtwo.com/product/switchproxy). Basically, it's a
Firefox extension that saves you the trouble of going into the
'preferences' dialogue everytime you want to switch from one proxy to
another (or go from using a proxy to not using one, that is).
It works like a charm with tor and a local proxy.
It also has a "Anonymizer mode", which cycles through a list of proxies
in an attempt to give you some kind of pseudo-anonymity (which I guess
is good enough for many people).
Jörn
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