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Safeweb Turns Off Free Service

Posted by timothy on from the no-more-no-more dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Seems like Safeweb was the last one to cancel providing free anonymizing service. Rest in peace, Safeweb, I loved you a lot. With Anonymouse down and Anonymizer.com restricted, are there any free services left for those suffering from corporate oppression?"

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  1. noproxy by DMDx86 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Noproxy still works. There is also a list of free services at antiproxy. I personlly run my own CGI Proxy on my home server while I am at school.

  2. SilentSurf are by Jon+Chatow · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... avaliable from here and here.

    --
    James F.
  3. Hiding in crowds by iamcadaver · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is still work being done with AT&T's crowds. Basically, the caveat is that you have'ta share the load if you wanna use the service. Good karma there.

    --
    Before I part with'em: two pennies weigh ~4.996+/-0.014g, have a zinc core, and the face of Lincoln. You can keep 'em.
  4. JAP by seite-f00f · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de is still beta but
    working...

  5. Re:Sweet Irony by sllort · · Score: 4, Informative

    I totally dig the fact that the submitter of this story was 'anonymous coward'...!

    I dig it too, because that's the real irony. Anonymous Cowards here aren't, because their IP addresses are still subject to subpoena, and there's a 2 week long window where Slashdot stores the IP address as an MD5 hash, which can be easily defeated. Think Church of Scientology.

    The only way to make AC posts truly "anonymous" is to post through an anonymous HTTP proxy that instantly "forgets" the source IP address. This is what Safeweb provided, and now it's gone. The irony is that the Anonymous Coward who posted the story probably isn't Anonymous.

    Of course, there are still other anonymizers, but Safeweb was the best known.

  6. anonymizing services? feh by ajuda · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why do we need anonymizing services (essentially hacks) when excellent substitutes are in the works? Projects like Freenet are providing new protocols which are specifically designed with anonymity in mind.

  7. ssh by Spock+the+Vulcan · · Score: 5, Informative
    You could do what I do - run squid+sshd at home, set up a tunnel with ssh port forwarding from your office to home:
    ssh -C -L 3128:<home-ip>:3128 -N <home-ip>
    and then set localhost:3128 as your proxy. Of course, this is assuming you have an always-on connection at home.
  8. Re:Sweet Irony by Mwongozi · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is what Safeweb provided,

    Actually, it didn't. SafeWeb kept logs for seven days.