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Tor Named One of the Year's Best Products
Iorek writes "PC World lauds Tor, an anonymous Internet communication system, as better than its paid competitors, and one of the best 100 products of 2005. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is supporting Tor development, has a press release as well."
How anonymous Tor is is well understood by the folks who do anonymity research. In short, it is most likely not anonymous against the US government.
There is a recent paper by George Danezis and Steven Murdoch about attacks on Tor. (IEEE Security and Privacy)
I don't understand why you would need tor to hit here. Just put slashdot on the "exception list" in your proxy config and it works great. The ads still get killed (if you are using privoxy) but the content is fast and complete.
You might also trying setting up your tor config file. You do not HAVE to use the "trusted gateways" for the final drop, that is only how it is configured OOTB. Add "exit" to the untrusted gateway nodes permissions - heck you can even remove "exit" from the "trusted nodes" permissions. Now you're not connecting via those "known tor nodes."
BTW it ain't just slashdot. Lots of sites still use IP information instead of session variables and it will drive you nuts trying to post to one of them or even stay connected without having to log in again every two minutes. Simple solution is to just add those sites to the "don't proxy these sites" list. May not be the solution you want if it's a "controversial" site that could lead to leagal attention, but if you're really worried about that sort of thing you're a fool for using tor for it anyway.
Do you even think for one nanosecond that the EFF would be supporting it if it were closed???
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It seems one of the first companies to jump on the Tor bandwagon is VPM. They are selling a Linux desktop on a 128MB USB stick with everything preconfigured to connect using Tor. Sounds like a neat idea even though you could make it all yourself without paying $45.
There is a recent paper by George Danezis and Steven Murdoch about attacks on Tor. (IEEE Security and Privacy)
I think you're referring to "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor" (PDF).
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It's not that difficult to change your IP address. All you have to do is change your virtual MAC address and reconnect to your ISP, their DHCP server recognizes you as a different computer.
To change your virtual MAC address under Linux, given you are using the primary ethernet adapter (not sure in Windows):
ifconfig eth0 hw ether NE:WM:AC:AD:RE:SS
Tor has a limited amount of IPs, and if trolls are using it in order to post, they are doing it the wrong way.
That's not exactly anonymous. The anonycat server knows your IP address and what page you're browsing. The whole point of the TOR, I2P, etc. anonymizing network systems is that no other entity on the network can determine both your IP address and what content on the network you're using.