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Surf Anonymously with Torpark

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28 2006 9:30 AM

Submitted by WilWheaton. Edited By WilWheaton.

TAGS: privacy, eff, firefox

As we move closer and closer to a police state here in America, protecting your privacy and wiping up your footprints on the Internets is becoming more and more important to people who don't really want to run the risk of a long vacation in Gitmo without the annoying formality of a trial.

Whatever it is you like to do on the 'tubes, whether it's write steamy Law & Order fan fiction, read an online copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook, engage in some of that pesky freedom of speech that our government seems so intent on wiping out, or just surf some good old fashioned porn, if you want to do it anonymously, Torpark is the way to go.

Torpark is a program which allows you to surf the internet anonymously. Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, work, or in public. Torpark will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously.

And for all you Chinese dissidents out there, though Torpark's default language is English, it comes with 35 different language packs, for easy localization.

13 Comments

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

SEP 28, 2006 09:58 AM

Beware!
That's a ruse by the government.
It actually creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer directly to the NSA.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

DieWhiteGirls

Madison, WI

July 2005

SEP 28, 2006 09:59 AM

This, coupled with Vista's ability to take flash media and turn it into ram are prime reasons why I should buy one of those things.

StudentDriver

Greenwood, IN

June 2004

SEP 28, 2006 10:22 AM

...and forgetting a USB keychain drive full of personal schoolwork and porn video on a school computer... a great reason for me to not get one again for a while.

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

SEP 28, 2006 10:27 AM

StudentDriver said:
...and forgetting a USB keychain drive full of personal schoolwork and porn video on a school computer... a great reason for me to not get one again for a while.

You do realize that that doesn't actually have anything to do with the story, right? The too that creates the connection sits on the keychain; anything you download goes to wherever it would normally go.

dkmfc

Germany

January 2003

SEP 28, 2006 10:51 AM

I thought they just got subpoenaed to give up their access logs? I could swear I just saw that on slashdot the other day.

hadees

Austin, TX

December 2003

SEP 28, 2006 10:55 AM

Tor is nice an all but I really like I2P. It is just like Tor but you can run more protocols on it such as bittorrent. Although unlike tor you can't access anything not on the I2P network. That is mainly because of legal liability. At some point when your packets have to cross over from the anonymous network to the regular Internet and as such who ever is running that bridge could possibly get in trouble.

StudentDriver

Greenwood, IN

June 2004

SEP 28, 2006 12:17 PM

For some reason, the reply button's not working for me.

Anyway, to Bean: I know it had nothing to do with the story; I was referring to DieWhiteGirl's statement that he'd have a reason to get flash media-- thus my follow up about why I'm a little leery of flash media.

Torpark on a USB keychain drive is pretty neat, but chances are I'd lose it-- along with any porn I happened to have downloaded.

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

SEP 28, 2006 12:30 PM

I may have to check that out.

-TM

dkmfc

Germany

January 2003

SEP 28, 2006 05:01 PM

found it!

chronoszero

San Francisco, CA

February 2005

OCT 03, 2006 08:18 AM

For those of you not familiar with Tor:

http://tor.eff.org/index.html.en

ThetotalM

Providence, RI

July 2004

OCT 03, 2006 03:37 PM

tor sounds pretty fucking good if you ask me....but if you can't run bittorrent...then thats a negative.

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

OCT 03, 2006 06:29 PM

DieWhiteGirls said:
This, coupled with Vista's ability to take flash media and turn it into ram are prime reasons why I should buy one of those things.

Why in the holy hell would anyone want flash media to be used as RAM?

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

OCT 03, 2006 06:34 PM

WilWheaton said:
And for all you Chinese dissidents out there, though Torpark's default language is English, it comes with 35 different language packs, for easy localization.

Tor looks neat, but there seem to be a few problems for Chinese users, but maybe this is just me misunderstanding their faq?