Web Proxies for Anonymous Scientific Peer-Review?

Posted by Cliff on Friday June 10, 2005 @12:33AM 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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Tor by Loualbano2 · 2005-06-10 00:36 · Score: 4, Informative

Basically an anonymous proxy network. The site owners will see the tor endpoints in the logs

http://tor.eff.org/
tor by f0rtytw0 · 2005-06-10 00:56 · Score: 4, Informative

Try using tor (http://tor.eff.org/) along with privoxy. There are instuctions on the page on how to get the two working well together. Its pretty easy to set up and it only took me a few minutes before I was up and running.

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