Sago
Sago Networks is an Internet technology solutions company that harnesses the power of the Internet to provide communications solutions for its customers around the world.
OUR PRODUCTS INCLUDE:
• Data center/co-location services in our high-tech, climate-controlled facilities,
• Dedicated server and hardware leasing,
• High-speed, dedicated broadband Internet services through hybrid networks,
• Email and web hosting,
• Application hosting,
• Disaster recovery services.
Sago is committed to customer satisfaction. Customers of all product lines can receive technical support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. To ensure that you receive the best Internet connections and the highest level of data security, we have multiple back-ups and redundancies in place. A diverse company with other business in real estate, cellular tower construction, wireless networking, and other business segments, Sago is a stable company. We own and sublet our 82,000 square foot data center facility in Tampa, Florida and we have an expanding network nationwide with network operations centers in Tampa, Miami and Dallas.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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StopPop.net
developer: Tometa Software, Inc.
license: Shareware
version: 2.07
size in Kb: 1,000
price: $14.95
platform: Windows XP
downloads: 22
our rating: n/a
popularity:
121/91554
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Description: StopPop.net automatically blocks Internet Explorer popup windows while you surf. A small, effective, and smart anti-popup software product than can kill annoying pop-up windows without your intervention by using artificial intelligence and intelligent agent technologies.Users are raving about how this is exactly what a popup blocker should be. It is so simple your Grandmother will understand how to use it. The interface is so unique and intuitive you'll wish you had been using it all along.Highlighted Features in StopPop.net * Allow pop up windows only when you want to see them. * Unlike other popup blockers StopPop.net only runs when you surf * Let's face it some web sites have valid popups you need to see, StopPop.net allows you to graphically select popups you do want to see from the slide out menu window * Two clicks to use 90% of all features. * Have the option to play a non-intrusive sound when a popup is blocked * Set up StopPop.net to always allows pop ups from secure sites. * Manage your blocked sites, allowed sites and domains all in a single interface or manually with a click while you surf.
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developer: Tometa Software, Inc.
license: Shareware
version: 2.07
size in Kb: 1,000
price: $14.95
platform: Windows XP
downloads: 22
our rating: n/a
popularity:
121/91554
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Description: StopPop.net automatically blocks Internet Explorer popup windows while you surf. A small, effective, and smart anti-popup software product than can kill annoying pop-up windows without your intervention by using artificial intelligence and intelligent agent technologies.Users are raving about how this is exactly what a popup blocker should be. It is so simple your Grandmother will understand how to use it. The interface is so unique and intuitive you'll wish you had been using it all along.Highlighted Features in StopPop.net * Allow pop up windows only when you want to see them. * Unlike other popup blockers StopPop.net only runs when you surf * Let's face it some web sites have valid popups you need to see, StopPop.net allows you to graphically select popups you do want to see from the slide out menu window * Two clicks to use 90% of all features. * Have the option to play a non-intrusive sound when a popup is blocked * Set up StopPop.net to always allows pop ups from secure sites. * Manage your blocked sites, allowed sites and domains all in a single interface or manually with a click while you surf.
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Dizzler free
Dizzler free downloadable application allows users to search online and play free music, videos, games, and radio stations on their desktop or mobile device.
Our goal is to create a place where media creators and users can come together and share their passion. We want our members to be able to enjoy all of the free media content on the web as safely and easily as possible without any SPYWARE, ADWARE or storage constraints. All you need is access to the internet and our free media player.
Dizzler was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. All of Dizzler's technology is copyrighted and patent protected. Dizzler does not permit downloading or file sharing of copyrighted material. See "Infringement Notification"
Where does the music, video and games come from? When you make a search, Dizzler only returns publicly available content from the Internet. Dizzler’s technology indexes and then encrypts in-line links to 3rd party websites that publicly host media using the same standards and practices as the major search engines (Google, Yahoo). This encryption prevents Dizzler users from accessing the actual paths to content in order to thwart inappropriate downloading, copying or sharing of files.
Who owns what?
You are searching and streaming free content. Dizzler does not pirate or inappropriately use private or secured property. We do not have nor do we host a private database or collection. We have no affiliation to the content or its host. Dizzler is a search engine.
What about copyrighted content?
Dizzler respects owner’s rights and strictly adheres to the takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This means that we will remove the paths in our database to any content that violates owner or copyright interests. Section 512(d) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, provides a safe harbor for search engines that display infringing material unless and until receiving a specific request to remove or disable that material. Dizzler has specific takedown provisions displayed on our website and work diligently to handle all takedown requests.
What is Dizzler’s Philosophy?
* We believe that Intellectual property law should not serve as a brake on technological innovation.
* We believe that no one should arbitrarily limit or restrict the access to content in the public domain.
* We believe that Dizzler is expanding the way people use the information on the public Internet.
* We believe copyright holders must face the new realities of the digital age by adopting a looser interpretation of how their content is used, "sampled” or licensed. Dizzler is ready to work with them in negotiating this new world.
Can’t Dizzler tell if content is copyrighted?
Dizzler’s search engine has no way to distinguish asserted copyright rights unless they are attached to the content files. There is no presumption of ownership or presumed rights to content Moreover, Dizzler’s search engine is entirely automated. It cannot distinguish between authorized and unauthorized media. Dizzler's media search does not "look" at files that match the user's description of what he/she seeks, but instead searches textual tags that accompany the media. A search engine that examined the actual pixel code that comprises an image, compared that code to other pixel codes, and then somehow determined whether a copy was licensed, would not only require heroic acts of programming but would also require that all copyright licensing agreements be made public and Internet-searchable.
Is there support for Dizzler’s position?
The Ninth Circuit Court of the US has ruled that the framing of other websites' images (content) does not constitute copyright infringement. The Court applied what it called the "server test." Copyright infringement requires copying, and when the search provider frames another website's content, it does not create a copy of that content on its server. Rather, the search site contains HTML code that refers the user's browser to the other website's page, from which the browser retrieves whatever content is found there, including copyright-infringing files.
The Ninth Circuit also ruled that copying and reducing a copyrighted image (creating a thumbnail), then displaying it alongside numerous other images as a search result, amounted to a "transformative use."
What about the current legal battles in the news?
As many of you know one of the largest content holders. is suing the largest Search engine on the grounds that the search companies stood to gain financially from illegal downloads of the content holder’s programs. In essence, the copyright holder is trying to regain control over properties that spread rapidly throughout the digital age. And Hollywood, which helped lobby for fair use restrictions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the first place, is now crying foul. The search engine claims that it falls within the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA and adheres to the prescribed takedown provisions of the law that the media industry helped write.
Dizzler believes that the responsibility for enforcing copyright should be shared. If the copyright owner doesn’t want content up somewhere, we don't want it up there. Dizzler can take it down, but we cannot police the content before it's searched and viewed.
Dizzler free downloadable application allows users to search online and play free music, videos, games, and radio stations on their desktop or mobile device.
Our goal is to create a place where media creators and users can come together and share their passion. We want our members to be able to enjoy all of the free media content on the web as safely and easily as possible without any SPYWARE, ADWARE or storage constraints. All you need is access to the internet and our free media player.
Dizzler was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. All of Dizzler's technology is copyrighted and patent protected. Dizzler does not permit downloading or file sharing of copyrighted material. See "Infringement Notification"
Where does the music, video and games come from? When you make a search, Dizzler only returns publicly available content from the Internet. Dizzler’s technology indexes and then encrypts in-line links to 3rd party websites that publicly host media using the same standards and practices as the major search engines (Google, Yahoo). This encryption prevents Dizzler users from accessing the actual paths to content in order to thwart inappropriate downloading, copying or sharing of files.
Who owns what?
You are searching and streaming free content. Dizzler does not pirate or inappropriately use private or secured property. We do not have nor do we host a private database or collection. We have no affiliation to the content or its host. Dizzler is a search engine.
What about copyrighted content?
Dizzler respects owner’s rights and strictly adheres to the takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This means that we will remove the paths in our database to any content that violates owner or copyright interests. Section 512(d) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, provides a safe harbor for search engines that display infringing material unless and until receiving a specific request to remove or disable that material. Dizzler has specific takedown provisions displayed on our website and work diligently to handle all takedown requests.
What is Dizzler’s Philosophy?
* We believe that Intellectual property law should not serve as a brake on technological innovation.
* We believe that no one should arbitrarily limit or restrict the access to content in the public domain.
* We believe that Dizzler is expanding the way people use the information on the public Internet.
* We believe copyright holders must face the new realities of the digital age by adopting a looser interpretation of how their content is used, "sampled” or licensed. Dizzler is ready to work with them in negotiating this new world.
Can’t Dizzler tell if content is copyrighted?
Dizzler’s search engine has no way to distinguish asserted copyright rights unless they are attached to the content files. There is no presumption of ownership or presumed rights to content Moreover, Dizzler’s search engine is entirely automated. It cannot distinguish between authorized and unauthorized media. Dizzler's media search does not "look" at files that match the user's description of what he/she seeks, but instead searches textual tags that accompany the media. A search engine that examined the actual pixel code that comprises an image, compared that code to other pixel codes, and then somehow determined whether a copy was licensed, would not only require heroic acts of programming but would also require that all copyright licensing agreements be made public and Internet-searchable.
Is there support for Dizzler’s position?
The Ninth Circuit Court of the US has ruled that the framing of other websites' images (content) does not constitute copyright infringement. The Court applied what it called the "server test." Copyright infringement requires copying, and when the search provider frames another website's content, it does not create a copy of that content on its server. Rather, the search site contains HTML code that refers the user's browser to the other website's page, from which the browser retrieves whatever content is found there, including copyright-infringing files.
The Ninth Circuit also ruled that copying and reducing a copyrighted image (creating a thumbnail), then displaying it alongside numerous other images as a search result, amounted to a "transformative use."
What about the current legal battles in the news?
As many of you know one of the largest content holders. is suing the largest Search engine on the grounds that the search companies stood to gain financially from illegal downloads of the content holder’s programs. In essence, the copyright holder is trying to regain control over properties that spread rapidly throughout the digital age. And Hollywood, which helped lobby for fair use restrictions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the first place, is now crying foul. The search engine claims that it falls within the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA and adheres to the prescribed takedown provisions of the law that the media industry helped write.
Dizzler believes that the responsibility for enforcing copyright should be shared. If the copyright owner doesn’t want content up somewhere, we don't want it up there. Dizzler can take it down, but we cannot police the content before it's searched and viewed.
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About FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Welcome to our fresh new site!
FreeDigitalPhotos.net is the best place on the web to download free photos for use in corporate and personal projects. Our images can be used by web designers, graphic designers and editors to illustrate and brighten up websites and printed media such as newspapers and magazines. Please see our terms of use for more information on acceptable use of our images.
Genuinely free photos
We make it easy to download free images:
* no registration required
* corporate use is OK
* instant download
* option to purchase super high resolution files for use in print or graphic design
* optional member registration gives access to lightboxes and email-to-a-friend features
Share and sell your photos!
We invite amateur and professional photographers to submit photos for inclusion on the website. Photographers will have their own portfolio page to share their talents with our millions of visitors.
High resolution versions of all our photographers' photos are available to buy. You set the price and we take a commission on any sales. The more photos you have on the site, and the better their quality, the more chance you have of earning some money. Sign up now!
Subscribe to our newsletter
We will be producing a newsletter every now and again, containing information about new photographs available, exciting new features, special offers and competitions. Other than sending you the newsletter by email we promise not to bug you or pass your email address on to anyone else.
Welcome to our fresh new site!
FreeDigitalPhotos.net is the best place on the web to download free photos for use in corporate and personal projects. Our images can be used by web designers, graphic designers and editors to illustrate and brighten up websites and printed media such as newspapers and magazines. Please see our terms of use for more information on acceptable use of our images.
Genuinely free photos
We make it easy to download free images:
* no registration required
* corporate use is OK
* instant download
* option to purchase super high resolution files for use in print or graphic design
* optional member registration gives access to lightboxes and email-to-a-friend features
Share and sell your photos!
We invite amateur and professional photographers to submit photos for inclusion on the website. Photographers will have their own portfolio page to share their talents with our millions of visitors.
High resolution versions of all our photographers' photos are available to buy. You set the price and we take a commission on any sales. The more photos you have on the site, and the better their quality, the more chance you have of earning some money. Sign up now!
Subscribe to our newsletter
We will be producing a newsletter every now and again, containing information about new photographs available, exciting new features, special offers and competitions. Other than sending you the newsletter by email we promise not to bug you or pass your email address on to anyone else.
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FreeSurf Magazine and Manulele Inc. is Hawaii's premiere surf media outlet. Check us out for all the hottest surf action!
FreeSurf Magazine made its debut in 2002. Born in Hale'iwa, the surf capital of the world, FreeSurf Magazine is dialed into the global surf community and is the authority of Hawai'i surfers and local beach culture. The magazine promotes a young, free and energetic lifestyle. The content is informative and stimulating while remaining family- friendly. According to a recent Board-trac study, 91% of kids who surf said they find out about new lines of clothes/shores/apparel from magazines. FreeSurf Magazine provides a direct link to this young generation of hungry consumers
FreeSurf Magazine prints 20,000 copies per issue distributed free in Hawai'i to surf and specialty shops throughout the Islands, including nearly 30 Jamba Juice locations statewide. Magazines are also distributed at surf and beach events throughout the year. With no cover price in Hawaii- FSM is 100% free- your customers are guaranteed to pick it up. In addition, roughly 1,500 copies are sold at retail outlets on the U.S. mainland.
FreeSurf Magazine made its debut in 2002. Born in Hale'iwa, the surf capital of the world, FreeSurf Magazine is dialed into the global surf community and is the authority of Hawai'i surfers and local beach culture. The magazine promotes a young, free and energetic lifestyle. The content is informative and stimulating while remaining family- friendly. According to a recent Board-trac study, 91% of kids who surf said they find out about new lines of clothes/shores/apparel from magazines. FreeSurf Magazine provides a direct link to this young generation of hungry consumers
FreeSurf Magazine prints 20,000 copies per issue distributed free in Hawai'i to surf and specialty shops throughout the Islands, including nearly 30 Jamba Juice locations statewide. Magazines are also distributed at surf and beach events throughout the year. With no cover price in Hawaii- FSM is 100% free- your customers are guaranteed to pick it up. In addition, roughly 1,500 copies are sold at retail outlets on the U.S. mainland.
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TELECOM Digest
This free, anonymous web-surfing service is provided for users of TELECOM Digest and Telecom Archives as a way to do some serious net surfing while remaining anonymous. Operator Pat will help you be anonymous in your net surfing, by routing your 'call' through various proxy servers along the way. See details below about how it works, or experienced netizens can start surfing now!
Click as shown to send an anonymous single email letter or Usenet newsgroup posting.
If you need an anonymous web surfing tool regularly
you may wish to simply bookmark this page to access it easily.
If so, please become a Friend of Telecom Digest.
First, make sure you understand how anonymous web page servers work, what they do and what they cannot do by reading carefully below. Use an anonymous email address for an extra layer of privacy if desired. Operator Pat cannot be responsible and will not be held liable for any unintended consequences as a result of your improper or illegal use of this service. Do NOT download images or files which are illegal to possess in the place from which you are calling!
Remember how telephone company 'loop-arounds' used to work to hide your identity and confuse things? Well, Operator Pat can help you do the same thing when surfing the net. Enter a URL and click the 'connect my call' button. Operator Pat will connect you through a few proxies she has strung together, making you anonymous as you surf. Subsequent links will be automatically serviced by Operator Pat. You will remain connected to the net via Operator Pat until you specifically return to this page and close it, or manually adjust the URL shown in the address bar at the top of your browser.
Operator Pat will strip all identifying variables from the data which is sent from your computer to the sites you visit. This service also strips those obnoxious popup windows that places like Geocities use in many cases, but some may slip through; results with that are unpredictable. In any event, they will never find out who you are!
Before you begin *serious* surfing:
First try Operator Pat on a site where you have access to the logs. See how well she does in keeping your identity hidden in cases where you know what the answers should be. We want YOU to be comfortable and know that there will be no hassles for yourself. Be sure to read the important notice below about things that make it difficult for Operator Pat to protect your privacy. Pick up an anonymous mailbox at our post office to have handy for use at those snoopy commercial sites which require you to register or ask all sorts of questions which are none of their business. Then, enjoy surfing with Operator Pat.
Note: This can only be used for http, it does not work for java, nor does it work for links that are hard coded to the root path. You will be warned before entering anything that may make you non-anonymous. It is also recommended that you shut off javascript while surfing as it may pose a threat to your anonymity with the use of redirectors. Also note that looping this (ie. sending it thru itself) does nothing but lengthen the url, the script ignores loops to itself.
This free, anonymous web-surfing service is provided for users of TELECOM Digest and Telecom Archives as a way to do some serious net surfing while remaining anonymous. Operator Pat will help you be anonymous in your net surfing, by routing your 'call' through various proxy servers along the way. See details below about how it works, or experienced netizens can start surfing now!
Click as shown to send an anonymous single email letter or Usenet newsgroup posting.
If you need an anonymous web surfing tool regularly
you may wish to simply bookmark this page to access it easily.
If so, please become a Friend of Telecom Digest.
First, make sure you understand how anonymous web page servers work, what they do and what they cannot do by reading carefully below. Use an anonymous email address for an extra layer of privacy if desired. Operator Pat cannot be responsible and will not be held liable for any unintended consequences as a result of your improper or illegal use of this service. Do NOT download images or files which are illegal to possess in the place from which you are calling!
Remember how telephone company 'loop-arounds' used to work to hide your identity and confuse things? Well, Operator Pat can help you do the same thing when surfing the net. Enter a URL and click the 'connect my call' button. Operator Pat will connect you through a few proxies she has strung together, making you anonymous as you surf. Subsequent links will be automatically serviced by Operator Pat. You will remain connected to the net via Operator Pat until you specifically return to this page and close it, or manually adjust the URL shown in the address bar at the top of your browser.
Operator Pat will strip all identifying variables from the data which is sent from your computer to the sites you visit. This service also strips those obnoxious popup windows that places like Geocities use in many cases, but some may slip through; results with that are unpredictable. In any event, they will never find out who you are!
Before you begin *serious* surfing:
First try Operator Pat on a site where you have access to the logs. See how well she does in keeping your identity hidden in cases where you know what the answers should be. We want YOU to be comfortable and know that there will be no hassles for yourself. Be sure to read the important notice below about things that make it difficult for Operator Pat to protect your privacy. Pick up an anonymous mailbox at our post office to have handy for use at those snoopy commercial sites which require you to register or ask all sorts of questions which are none of their business. Then, enjoy surfing with Operator Pat.
Note: This can only be used for http, it does not work for java, nor does it work for links that are hard coded to the root path. You will be warned before entering anything that may make you non-anonymous. It is also recommended that you shut off javascript while surfing as it may pose a threat to your anonymity with the use of redirectors. Also note that looping this (ie. sending it thru itself) does nothing but lengthen the url, the script ignores loops to itself.
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Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service
There are many reasons people have for wanting to surf anonymously, ranging from simple paranoia in terms of protecting personal data, to hiding browsing activities from other users of a computer including parents, spouses, or even other organizations. Whatever your reasons for wanting to use anonymous browsing services, or criticizing others for wanting to use them, I will not debate the political, legal, moral, ethical and other reasons, but simply review the available technology. Be aware that most corporate networks will block the use of anonymous surfing activities at the corporate firewall. Corporate networks and internet links are after all the property of your employer and should never be misused in violation of corporate acceptable use policies, so don’t expect any help here in finding ways to circumvent firewall blocking.
The most obvious anonymous browsing application for most people is in internet cafes, on public terminals, using wireless or even wired access points away from home, or in fact, on any PC including your own, where you don't want to leave traces of your private surfing activities. Some other browsing activity cleaners exist that clear the cache, cookies, history and other traces, some are even available as a standard in most browsers, but anonymous browsing goes a step further. What attracts me is not so much the privacy aspect, but rather the security potential, because all of the anonymizing browser proxy based services create a secure encrypted connection between the PC you are using and the first anonymizing proxy server. This allows you to safely transmit information with little risk of local interception, making it ideal for surfing on open Wi-Fi networks, or in hotels while travelling.
Previously, secure surfing on such networks required the use of private VPN networks, generally an option only available to corporate employees, those with the available money to pay for it and the technically savvy. Now, using any of the Tor or JAP based browsers, any surfer can reap the same sort of security benefits for their browsing. Whatever the reasons anyone may have for using anonymizing browsing, commercial services that offer anonymity are doing well, and a number of both free and subscription based browsing applications and services have become available.
Two dominant services exist which provide the foundation for free, secure anonymous browsing. The JAP network was good enough that the German Police insisted in 2004, that a backdoor be put into the product to allow interception of child pornographers. This was done, but subsequently removed as a result of court action by the JAP development team. The alternative is Tour (The Onion Ring), which is a system that not only allows anonymous browsing but also anonymous P2P, email, IM, and IRC chat. Given the US Navy origin of Tor, the suspicion inevitably arises that this system may have a permanent backdoor, however, the source code is now publicly available so that suspicion can perhaps be set aside. More worrying was a raid by German police in September 2006 involving the seizure of some Tor servers in that country. Again, pedophiles were the supposed target, but who really knows.
OperaTor is my clear first choice, a portable version of Opera with an included and well integrated Tor engine that uses the free Tor network. OperaTor is small and relatively fast, using just 6Mb of memory for it’s Tor engine, 2Mb for the Polipo caching proxy, 3Mb for the OperaTor loader and 18Mb for Opera. In my experience, OperaTor is by far the fastest browser, even with multiple proxies on the Tor network so that the browsing trail is frequently changing for greater security. Some people don't like the fact that OperaTor is not released with source code available (at least not that we have yet located) which may influence the choice in whether to use it or not. I believe that unless a user is proficient in programming, or at least reading the development language of any particular application, this becomes rather irrelevant, unless some amount of comfort or security might be perceived in knowing that source is available and others might be checking it even if the user of the application can not read it personally. Even closed source projects that become popular generally receive enough user and peer scrutiny that most problems would be quickly exposed.
JonDo (previously known as JAP) is my second choice and is in some ways a more flexible option, in that it is simply a Java application that performs the role of a local (PC based) proxy server that redirects browser requests via the JonDo (formerly JAP) network. This allows the user to configure their choice of any browser rather than requiring a change to Opera. Unfortunately, being Java based means that the application becomes somewhat bloated, requiring 54Mb of memory just for the Java JonDo application, as well as another few Mb for the JAP engine, and then whatever additional is required for the web browser of choice. JonDo does have quite a nice GUI display which shows the strength of the anonymity based on the number of anonymizing proxy servers, and takes care of managing the random proxy changes for greater anonymity. A commercial service known as Homonym has been introduced which uses dedicated servers to provide higher speeds, higher levels of availability and more security along with support for chat, ftp and ssh in addition to web browsing. Another offering from the commercial JonDonym group is JonDoFox, a customized version of Firefox with JonDo code embedded along with other anonymizing optimizations. Unfortunately, JonDo not being a network like Tor is prone to some limitations in terms of the numbers of free servers, and some subsequent downtimes may be more likely with the smaller server base.
Vidalia is my third choice, a close match to JonDo in that it is quite a bit lighter in memory use and generally feels faster, but may not have the same level of anonymizing as JonDo. Vidalia is another integrated package using a combination of Privoxy and a Tor engine to connect to the Tor network, but it offers many new features. As with JonDo, Vidalia behaves as a local proxy for use by any browser, but it also provides configurations allowing it to run either as a simple standalone process or as a Windows service (for security and performance reasons, among others). Vidalia allows the user to participate in the anonymizing process by becoming a Tor Relay to help censored users in a similar way to becoming a BitTorrent relay, and a live realtime facility is available showing a map of the earth with lines representing connections to the Tor server participants. Vidalia uses 24 - 32Mb of memory, with an additional 4Mb used for Privoxy and another 16.5Mb for the Tor engine. One initially confusing aspect of Vidalia is that it provides a configuration access through port 9051, but it is not immediately obvious that Privoxy is listening on port 8118. Browsers using the Vidalia bundle must be configured to use the Privoxy port 8118 as the proxy server, not port 9051. Like JonDo, the Vidalia/Privoxy combination constantly changes proxy servers to mask the trail to provide greater anonymity.
Whatever your preference, both JAP and Tor networks offer a level of secrecy that is better than many commercial systems, though they are not watertight. Expect your surfing to slow down, in some case substantially, because you'll be relayed through a chain of servers, all heavily impacted by BitTorrent users seeking to hide from the RIAA. Note: the latest V5 release of JAP now allows Tor users to use JAP as a software access point to the Tor network.
The XeroBank Browser (previously known as TorPark) provides a new customized version of the Firefox browser configured to work with the free Tor anonymizing service, or with a subscription service for higher speeds using dedicated servers, and other features. Firefox users may feel more comfortable with XeroBank, as it is based on Firefox, but also need not make any changes at all if they make use of either the JonDo or Vidalia bundles to access the Tor engine other than to set the proxy server, and of course, manual cleanup of the cache, cookies and browsing history after use. XeroBank claims to have many advanced features, but for the average user most of these may not be apparent, unless the subscription service is used. While the XeroBank browser is free to use on the Tor network, the XeroBank web site promotes the use of their subscription-based account. During installation, the XeroBank Browser offers the choice of using either the commercial XeroBank Client or the free Tor service. Caution! Some antivirus scanners report trojan infected code in the XeroBank download. Use http://jotti.org to verify all downloads, and use XeroBank and all other applications with caution, but be aware that some of the virus scanners used by jotti.org may also be overly zealous in their reporting of infections. Some claimed virus or trojan infections in various applications are no more than firewall detection, or software product key reporting capabilities mis-diagnosed by the scanner as a potential threat.
The downside of XeroBank as contrasted with using JonDo or Vidalia, is that you would need to use XeroBank for anonymous browsing and your regular browser for other surfing. Using JonDo or Vidalia, you can use the browser of your choice, and just reconfigure to use the proxy when you want to anonymous surfing. This won't automatically clean out all other personal data (cache, history, cookies etc.) when the application is shut down, which OperaTor and XeroBank do.
A final item for review recently brought to my attention by Peter, one of our visitors, is UltraSurf, which seems to be primarily targeted at people in China wanting to circumvent official government internet censorship. We will not get into the politics or ethics of either the censorship or circumvention of censorship, however the facility exists and may be useful to some people. UltraSurf is a very simple application, a single tiny 281Kb download containing just one executable, u.exe. When running, this little program uses just 7.5Mb of memory and performs the same role of proxy server as other applications, redirecting all browser requests via the UltraSurf proxy servers. While this is an interesting new development claiming to be very sophisticated, it seems on the surface to be rather simplistic, and does not appear to change proxy servers in the same way that JAP and Tor do. Browsing speeds also seemed to be somewhat slower than with either Tor or JAP browsing. The program appeared to be clean on a http://jotti.org virus scan, other than one possible trojan reported by F-Prot, so as with all software, while it appeared to be safe on my tests, test it out and scan it yourself. By default, UltraSurf changes proxy settings and launches Internet Explorer when it starts, but I was able to shut down Explorer and start FireFox and Opera with the proxy reconfigured to use the same port and successfully browse via UltraSurf.
For all anonymizing services, check that you are running in anonymous mode by first browsing to one of many servers which reports your IP address, for example http://www.whatismyip.com/ and take note of your IP address. Reconfigure your browser to make use of the anonymizing service, and reload / refresh the browser and verify that the reported IP address has changed. Some IP reporting servers will also tell you which country, and even which city you now appear to be connecting from.
Most of the services reviewed are able to run directly from a USB flash drive if the executables are simply copied as is from their installation directories. This works really well, just plug your flash drive into any PC with a USB port, launch both the anonymizing proxy software and a browser, set the browser to redirect via the anonymizer and you will be in business. In the case of both OperaTor and XeroBank, all you need to is launch the browser from your flash drive and you will be ready to start browsing.
While some 'LiveCD' applications such as XeroBank Machine and Incognito Live CD have been created and may provide similar functions, they mostly seem to be currently released in various stages of alpha or beta test versions and have bugs or limitations. For example, the XeroBank Machine provides two options. You can either run the xBMachine.exe from a Windows prompt which starts a QEMU virtual machine and then runs a GenToo Linux kernel, or by booting from a "Live CD". This Live CD boots the same customized GenToo Linux environment from CD without any Windows involvement. In simple terms, both xBMachine options simply provide a different "hardened" OS platform to run the Firefox based XeroBank Browser. Is LiveCD really useful? To some people, yes, not to me. It does mean that like SandBoxie, your guest operating system is protected from malicious web sites via your browsing, and when you stop the QEMU virtual machine or reboot the PC from hard disk rather than CD all traces are removed. I am a Unix / Linux geek so I am totally at home with them, but for the average person, I suspect the LiveCD and QEMU based options will provide a confusing level of complexity that will just interfere with their browsing and desire to be safe. Not much can beat truly safe browsing habits, whatever browser or add-on tools you use. xBMachine is a 380Mb zip file download, which unpacked yields a 391Mb ISO image to create a CD as well as another 10Mb or so of the QEMU environment. The QEMU hosted browser uses 292+Mb of memory, requires the ISO image present, and took more than 5 minutes to load and be ready for use on a 1.8Ghz dual core Intel PC with 1Gb or memory. It provides a Linux X-Windows GUI with a profile configuration, a network configuration, xBBrowser, e-mail, Pidgin instant messenger, terminal and an option to configure for the paid subscription network. I don't know about you, but I am not willing to wait 5 or more minutes and have close to 300Mb of disk space tied up in a browser that took another minute or two to load, and then in my case never managed to connect out anyway. For those who feel that having source available makes a better product, go ahead and try to download the XeroBank source. All of the links gave me a 7Mb source zip file which was corrupted and would not open. Would this give you "open source available" feelings of security? I don't think so.
I'm a freeware and open source fan, I can read and write programs, but not when the source file is corrupted, and I am not likely to start poring through tens of thousands of lines of code even if I could unpack the source. Even if it does unpack, how do we know that exact source was used to build the tool, and not another set of customized source with a built in Trojan or spyware? The reality is that we really don't know unless we both inspect the source code and then compile it and compare the distributed executable.
One final comment on anonymizing, your browsing activities will never be 100% secure and guaranteed to be anonymous. It will be very difficult for anyone to trace you while browsing through the Tor network, except as reported in the Tor wiki, "when you access pages that use Java, Javascript, Macromedia Flash and Shockwave, QuickTime, RealAudio, ActiveX controls, and VBScript are all known to be able to access local information about your operating system and local network. These technologies will work over proxies and can tunnel the information back to their source."
There are many reasons people have for wanting to surf anonymously, ranging from simple paranoia in terms of protecting personal data, to hiding browsing activities from other users of a computer including parents, spouses, or even other organizations. Whatever your reasons for wanting to use anonymous browsing services, or criticizing others for wanting to use them, I will not debate the political, legal, moral, ethical and other reasons, but simply review the available technology. Be aware that most corporate networks will block the use of anonymous surfing activities at the corporate firewall. Corporate networks and internet links are after all the property of your employer and should never be misused in violation of corporate acceptable use policies, so don’t expect any help here in finding ways to circumvent firewall blocking.
The most obvious anonymous browsing application for most people is in internet cafes, on public terminals, using wireless or even wired access points away from home, or in fact, on any PC including your own, where you don't want to leave traces of your private surfing activities. Some other browsing activity cleaners exist that clear the cache, cookies, history and other traces, some are even available as a standard in most browsers, but anonymous browsing goes a step further. What attracts me is not so much the privacy aspect, but rather the security potential, because all of the anonymizing browser proxy based services create a secure encrypted connection between the PC you are using and the first anonymizing proxy server. This allows you to safely transmit information with little risk of local interception, making it ideal for surfing on open Wi-Fi networks, or in hotels while travelling.
Previously, secure surfing on such networks required the use of private VPN networks, generally an option only available to corporate employees, those with the available money to pay for it and the technically savvy. Now, using any of the Tor or JAP based browsers, any surfer can reap the same sort of security benefits for their browsing. Whatever the reasons anyone may have for using anonymizing browsing, commercial services that offer anonymity are doing well, and a number of both free and subscription based browsing applications and services have become available.
Two dominant services exist which provide the foundation for free, secure anonymous browsing. The JAP network was good enough that the German Police insisted in 2004, that a backdoor be put into the product to allow interception of child pornographers. This was done, but subsequently removed as a result of court action by the JAP development team. The alternative is Tour (The Onion Ring), which is a system that not only allows anonymous browsing but also anonymous P2P, email, IM, and IRC chat. Given the US Navy origin of Tor, the suspicion inevitably arises that this system may have a permanent backdoor, however, the source code is now publicly available so that suspicion can perhaps be set aside. More worrying was a raid by German police in September 2006 involving the seizure of some Tor servers in that country. Again, pedophiles were the supposed target, but who really knows.
OperaTor is my clear first choice, a portable version of Opera with an included and well integrated Tor engine that uses the free Tor network. OperaTor is small and relatively fast, using just 6Mb of memory for it’s Tor engine, 2Mb for the Polipo caching proxy, 3Mb for the OperaTor loader and 18Mb for Opera. In my experience, OperaTor is by far the fastest browser, even with multiple proxies on the Tor network so that the browsing trail is frequently changing for greater security. Some people don't like the fact that OperaTor is not released with source code available (at least not that we have yet located) which may influence the choice in whether to use it or not. I believe that unless a user is proficient in programming, or at least reading the development language of any particular application, this becomes rather irrelevant, unless some amount of comfort or security might be perceived in knowing that source is available and others might be checking it even if the user of the application can not read it personally. Even closed source projects that become popular generally receive enough user and peer scrutiny that most problems would be quickly exposed.
JonDo (previously known as JAP) is my second choice and is in some ways a more flexible option, in that it is simply a Java application that performs the role of a local (PC based) proxy server that redirects browser requests via the JonDo (formerly JAP) network. This allows the user to configure their choice of any browser rather than requiring a change to Opera. Unfortunately, being Java based means that the application becomes somewhat bloated, requiring 54Mb of memory just for the Java JonDo application, as well as another few Mb for the JAP engine, and then whatever additional is required for the web browser of choice. JonDo does have quite a nice GUI display which shows the strength of the anonymity based on the number of anonymizing proxy servers, and takes care of managing the random proxy changes for greater anonymity. A commercial service known as Homonym has been introduced which uses dedicated servers to provide higher speeds, higher levels of availability and more security along with support for chat, ftp and ssh in addition to web browsing. Another offering from the commercial JonDonym group is JonDoFox, a customized version of Firefox with JonDo code embedded along with other anonymizing optimizations. Unfortunately, JonDo not being a network like Tor is prone to some limitations in terms of the numbers of free servers, and some subsequent downtimes may be more likely with the smaller server base.
Vidalia is my third choice, a close match to JonDo in that it is quite a bit lighter in memory use and generally feels faster, but may not have the same level of anonymizing as JonDo. Vidalia is another integrated package using a combination of Privoxy and a Tor engine to connect to the Tor network, but it offers many new features. As with JonDo, Vidalia behaves as a local proxy for use by any browser, but it also provides configurations allowing it to run either as a simple standalone process or as a Windows service (for security and performance reasons, among others). Vidalia allows the user to participate in the anonymizing process by becoming a Tor Relay to help censored users in a similar way to becoming a BitTorrent relay, and a live realtime facility is available showing a map of the earth with lines representing connections to the Tor server participants. Vidalia uses 24 - 32Mb of memory, with an additional 4Mb used for Privoxy and another 16.5Mb for the Tor engine. One initially confusing aspect of Vidalia is that it provides a configuration access through port 9051, but it is not immediately obvious that Privoxy is listening on port 8118. Browsers using the Vidalia bundle must be configured to use the Privoxy port 8118 as the proxy server, not port 9051. Like JonDo, the Vidalia/Privoxy combination constantly changes proxy servers to mask the trail to provide greater anonymity.
Whatever your preference, both JAP and Tor networks offer a level of secrecy that is better than many commercial systems, though they are not watertight. Expect your surfing to slow down, in some case substantially, because you'll be relayed through a chain of servers, all heavily impacted by BitTorrent users seeking to hide from the RIAA. Note: the latest V5 release of JAP now allows Tor users to use JAP as a software access point to the Tor network.
The XeroBank Browser (previously known as TorPark) provides a new customized version of the Firefox browser configured to work with the free Tor anonymizing service, or with a subscription service for higher speeds using dedicated servers, and other features. Firefox users may feel more comfortable with XeroBank, as it is based on Firefox, but also need not make any changes at all if they make use of either the JonDo or Vidalia bundles to access the Tor engine other than to set the proxy server, and of course, manual cleanup of the cache, cookies and browsing history after use. XeroBank claims to have many advanced features, but for the average user most of these may not be apparent, unless the subscription service is used. While the XeroBank browser is free to use on the Tor network, the XeroBank web site promotes the use of their subscription-based account. During installation, the XeroBank Browser offers the choice of using either the commercial XeroBank Client or the free Tor service. Caution! Some antivirus scanners report trojan infected code in the XeroBank download. Use http://jotti.org to verify all downloads, and use XeroBank and all other applications with caution, but be aware that some of the virus scanners used by jotti.org may also be overly zealous in their reporting of infections. Some claimed virus or trojan infections in various applications are no more than firewall detection, or software product key reporting capabilities mis-diagnosed by the scanner as a potential threat.
The downside of XeroBank as contrasted with using JonDo or Vidalia, is that you would need to use XeroBank for anonymous browsing and your regular browser for other surfing. Using JonDo or Vidalia, you can use the browser of your choice, and just reconfigure to use the proxy when you want to anonymous surfing. This won't automatically clean out all other personal data (cache, history, cookies etc.) when the application is shut down, which OperaTor and XeroBank do.
A final item for review recently brought to my attention by Peter, one of our visitors, is UltraSurf, which seems to be primarily targeted at people in China wanting to circumvent official government internet censorship. We will not get into the politics or ethics of either the censorship or circumvention of censorship, however the facility exists and may be useful to some people. UltraSurf is a very simple application, a single tiny 281Kb download containing just one executable, u.exe. When running, this little program uses just 7.5Mb of memory and performs the same role of proxy server as other applications, redirecting all browser requests via the UltraSurf proxy servers. While this is an interesting new development claiming to be very sophisticated, it seems on the surface to be rather simplistic, and does not appear to change proxy servers in the same way that JAP and Tor do. Browsing speeds also seemed to be somewhat slower than with either Tor or JAP browsing. The program appeared to be clean on a http://jotti.org virus scan, other than one possible trojan reported by F-Prot, so as with all software, while it appeared to be safe on my tests, test it out and scan it yourself. By default, UltraSurf changes proxy settings and launches Internet Explorer when it starts, but I was able to shut down Explorer and start FireFox and Opera with the proxy reconfigured to use the same port and successfully browse via UltraSurf.
For all anonymizing services, check that you are running in anonymous mode by first browsing to one of many servers which reports your IP address, for example http://www.whatismyip.com/ and take note of your IP address. Reconfigure your browser to make use of the anonymizing service, and reload / refresh the browser and verify that the reported IP address has changed. Some IP reporting servers will also tell you which country, and even which city you now appear to be connecting from.
Most of the services reviewed are able to run directly from a USB flash drive if the executables are simply copied as is from their installation directories. This works really well, just plug your flash drive into any PC with a USB port, launch both the anonymizing proxy software and a browser, set the browser to redirect via the anonymizer and you will be in business. In the case of both OperaTor and XeroBank, all you need to is launch the browser from your flash drive and you will be ready to start browsing.
While some 'LiveCD' applications such as XeroBank Machine and Incognito Live CD have been created and may provide similar functions, they mostly seem to be currently released in various stages of alpha or beta test versions and have bugs or limitations. For example, the XeroBank Machine provides two options. You can either run the xBMachine.exe from a Windows prompt which starts a QEMU virtual machine and then runs a GenToo Linux kernel, or by booting from a "Live CD". This Live CD boots the same customized GenToo Linux environment from CD without any Windows involvement. In simple terms, both xBMachine options simply provide a different "hardened" OS platform to run the Firefox based XeroBank Browser. Is LiveCD really useful? To some people, yes, not to me. It does mean that like SandBoxie, your guest operating system is protected from malicious web sites via your browsing, and when you stop the QEMU virtual machine or reboot the PC from hard disk rather than CD all traces are removed. I am a Unix / Linux geek so I am totally at home with them, but for the average person, I suspect the LiveCD and QEMU based options will provide a confusing level of complexity that will just interfere with their browsing and desire to be safe. Not much can beat truly safe browsing habits, whatever browser or add-on tools you use. xBMachine is a 380Mb zip file download, which unpacked yields a 391Mb ISO image to create a CD as well as another 10Mb or so of the QEMU environment. The QEMU hosted browser uses 292+Mb of memory, requires the ISO image present, and took more than 5 minutes to load and be ready for use on a 1.8Ghz dual core Intel PC with 1Gb or memory. It provides a Linux X-Windows GUI with a profile configuration, a network configuration, xBBrowser, e-mail, Pidgin instant messenger, terminal and an option to configure for the paid subscription network. I don't know about you, but I am not willing to wait 5 or more minutes and have close to 300Mb of disk space tied up in a browser that took another minute or two to load, and then in my case never managed to connect out anyway. For those who feel that having source available makes a better product, go ahead and try to download the XeroBank source. All of the links gave me a 7Mb source zip file which was corrupted and would not open. Would this give you "open source available" feelings of security? I don't think so.
I'm a freeware and open source fan, I can read and write programs, but not when the source file is corrupted, and I am not likely to start poring through tens of thousands of lines of code even if I could unpack the source. Even if it does unpack, how do we know that exact source was used to build the tool, and not another set of customized source with a built in Trojan or spyware? The reality is that we really don't know unless we both inspect the source code and then compile it and compare the distributed executable.
One final comment on anonymizing, your browsing activities will never be 100% secure and guaranteed to be anonymous. It will be very difficult for anyone to trace you while browsing through the Tor network, except as reported in the Tor wiki, "when you access pages that use Java, Javascript, Macromedia Flash and Shockwave, QuickTime, RealAudio, ActiveX controls, and VBScript are all known to be able to access local information about your operating system and local network. These technologies will work over proxies and can tunnel the information back to their source."
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