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I use Tor for all my anonymous web access. The mission of the Tor developers is to provide completely identity-free web surfing. Tor works by linking all browsing requests from your computer through a web of other computers on the Tor network. Each of the other computers has a coded address so that no one computer knows which computer contacted it or which computer it passed it's information on to, so that it's impossible for anyone to trace a user on the system. No logs are kept of any web traffic so there's nothing to be subpoenaed by law enforcement. It's quite brilliant. The whole thing relies on certain people volunteering the use of their computers as an anonymous relay station for the benefit of everyone else. Basically, you download a program from the Tor website. When you run that program once, it create a folder in any location you choose. In that folder is a link to a web browser that is specifically configured to run under Tor. You use that link each time you want to run the browser and access the web anonymously, just as if you were running Internet Explorer or Firefox. The special thing about the Tor browser is that it doesn't support add-on programs like Flash or Javascript. Those programs could possibly be used to determine your IP address. Tor is just a very basic browser, but it has provided all the functionality I have needed to access BC with complete anonymity. If you read the information on the Tor website, they are very thorough in their explanations. Cheers, CaperKid |