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Web Proxies for Anonymous Scientific Peer-Review?

Posted by Cliff on from the valid-uses-for-open-proxies dept.

nodrogluap asks: "As a scientist, I am often asked to peer-review journal papers. The peer-review process is generally supposed to be anonymous, but often times it is necessary to extensively visit the author's Web site to check and test Web interfaces to software and databases described in the paper. It can be easy for the author to surmise who's reviewing the paper based on Web logs (paper subject + gleaned reviewer's institution), especially when the reviewers are getting the first public crack at the URLs. Are there free, reliable HTTP and HTTPS proxies out there (not including servers run by people who've somehow mistakenly enabled an unrestricted proxy server in Apache)?"

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  1. In short no by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm going out on a limb and assume you've googled this question prior to submitting it to ask slashdot.
    You will notice the amount of .ru sites in the result. Other websites offer free proxies which turn out to not be so free after all.

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  2. Get a shell account by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and run your own

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  3. Google is your friend by DA-MAN · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just use the Google Web Accelerator.

    http://webaccelerator.google.com/

    Then you'll show up in the logs as though the connection were coming from Google.

    More info here.

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