Hide-IP, The First Layer in Your Home Computer Defense Concept

Hide-IP is so that Bad Guys do not know where you are!! Under Windows the best for this is called the Vidalia-Bundle. It is a software package consisting of three parts. The first is a proxy server called Privoxy. The second part is TOR, an onion router. The third part is Vidalia it is the Graphical User Interface (GUI).

You can use Tor and privoxy in Linux, but it is much harder to setup. Most of the time you have to use the Command Line Interface(CLI).

A proxy server is a server, which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client.

TOR is what is called an onion router, like the leaves of an onion it provides many different Pathways from your computer Point A to Point B (where you want to go)

If you want to do Anonymous-Surfing, or hiding your IP on the internet, then this is the way to go.

I have been using Privoxy and TOR for over a year. When ever I do a "What is my IP" They find my IP to be in Europe with many Proxy Servers. The only problem with that is I am in SOUTH EAST ASIA. This is when I was using Windows XP.

I always make sure I am running TOR when I want to make a purchase on the Internet.

Most of the year I live in one of the most fraud prone countries. If I try to make a purchase without TOR, it is turned down with the excuse that the bank rejected. I check with my bank and they say no one ever submitted it. So the merchants just check the IP country against bank country an and reject and blame it on the Bank.

I am currently trying to figure how to setup a TOR server. That way it makes it much more difficult to track down where I am in the network.

Since my computer did a crash & Burn, I am no longer using Windows. The OS I am using is the Ubuntu flavor of Linux. I have been trying to figure out how to install Tor & Privoxy and a GUI called Tork. Have not figured it out yet. So I cannot Hide-IP.

I am still working on getting Hide IP to run on Linux. I have given up on using TORK. I cannot configure it so it will run. I am now using the Vidalia GUI.

I have got most everything running except port forwarding thru my router.

When get that working I will post it on the Linux Tips page from Linux OS.

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