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Privacy Arms Race Takes Another Step

Posted by michael on from the missiles-in-cuba dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is an ongoing arms race between privacy tools and info harvesters (spammers, advertisers, marketers, bosses, governments). In the latest move in this battle Anonymizer has released a new version of its privacy service. The Register has an article on the new version. CNET has the press release if you want the company line."

8 comments

  1. Nigeria by Star+Stealing+Girl · · Score: 2, Funny

    I liked that "My money went to Nigeria and all I got was this lousy shirt" graphic. . .

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  2. I like the concept by wompser · · Score: 2, Informative

    But this has some problems. I just tried it, and my favorite site to surf from work is blocked! I can't get to monster.com !!! You have to pay for the unrestricted version to get access to "the web's most popular sites." What crap! Also annoying, because popular sites must come out of their cache, Slashdot.org (my second favorite site to surf from work!) does not have the most current stories. It is going to be hard to post an anoymous First Post with this servce! I like the idea, but I consider this slashdot story to be a clever advertisment of a new product, and has the 2 best geek buzzwords: pivacy and security

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    1. Re:I like the concept by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I just tried Slashdot.org and I see the same list of stories with and without Anonymizer. Caching at your end maybe? Free services are so '90s.

  3. Or... by baldass_newbie · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could try Anonymous Browsing.

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  4. More Escalation Needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I know places that disallow SSL connections to "unauthorized" sites because of the potential for you to hide what you're doing.

    I need a service that looks like innocuous insecure news and posting, but is stego channel to what I'm really doing!

  5. Employers don't like this kind of software... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My attempts to access Anonymizer.com resulted in a "you are not authorized to view this page" error. I had the same result when accessing some of the sites listed on the a http://www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html page, specifically for Magus Net, Anonymouse, and SAproxy.

    So, yeah, there's clearly a market for this. And depending on your employer, there's probably a real need for it as well.

  6. Checking IP addresses by NexusTw1n · · Score: 1
    "Unrue said it is often used by enterprises for checking out their competitor's web sites. He cited instances where companies have programmed their sites to return false information, inflated prices or even job offers if a page is requested from an address in their competitor's IP range."


    ftp 207.46.134.30

    If (IP=64.28.67.150 ) echo 'Welcome ! Unfortunately our free update service is no longer available. Please have several credit cards handy'
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  7. But can you trust anonimizer? by Yottabyte84 · · Score: 1

    I don't see how you can trust anonimizer to not keep logs. How do we know that they aren't run by the feds? I'd rather just get a shell account and tunnel my traffic through that.