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Just Alex asks: "I just got Comcast High-Speed Internet service, and found out that just up to a few months ago they were recording the actions of all of their users and saving it for who knows what. Now I'm thinking about getting an 'anonymous' service like anonymizer.com, but I wonder what other folks are using. Are all of these services the same? What should I be looking for? And what people recommend given their experience with them? Also, which ones play better with Linux?"
Remembering anon.penet.fi, the world famous anonymous remailer and news posting service, I can only *stress* that your anonymity will be guaranteed only as long as nobody sues to resolve it.
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Someone already mentioned multiproxy. Also check out Java Anonymous Proxy and Peekabooty. You seem kind of new to the game of paranoia. Why not just start here and do some reading.
It's important to understand exactly what these anonymous services get you and who and what they are protecting against so take some time and realistically educate yourself to the risks and threats.
Oh, and don't forget to check out Freenet
Revolutions are never about freedom or justice. They're about who's going to be top dog. -- Kilgore Trout
Because telephone wire laws are much much much stricter (and older) than cable wire laws. There is some protection in DSL not offered in cable.
What are you talking about? If you are going through an anonymizer, EVERY PACKET you send should go there. Comcast won't have a clue unless they analyze the contents of the packet. Comcast would only see your packets going to the anonymizer.
And the rest is easy to take care of. If you have a decent proxy service, they should use crypto, otherwise Comcast could identify the contents of the packets you send and construct where you were going anyways. With adequate crypto, Comcast would only know that you use some anonymizer, but won't know where the packets thereafter were being directed to. They can't decrypt your packets, and your anonymizer should be off their network anyways and shaping their traffic intelligently (otherwise, if they download a 2 meg file, and send you a 2 meg file, folks sniffing will know who downloaded what).
And worse, as demonstrated by some posts here, people only use them when they feel they have "something to hide." Then the very use of them throws up a big red flag. It's like encryption: use it all the time, or don't use it at all--if you only use it for the "good stuff," the good stuff becomes that much easier to look for.
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Just a list from my site.
You see, it does not matter whether DSL providers are small or big, they usually buy DSL equipment and rent infrastructure from a larger company. If that large company wants to monitor you, it does not matter if the puny DSL company monitors you or not.