we've got a proof of concept build of an internet privacy appliance for windows users built at: http://public.peertech.org/jvm/ there are some known issues / deficiencies in this release: - DNS leaks due to transparent proxy. transparent DNS proxy when in anonymous mode is in progress (using tor-resolve and a python DNS server) - http traffic is identified by outgoing port (80, 8080, etc) rather than traffic type. L7 matching is also in the works. - https (SSL/TLS) traffic is passed through and not proxied. - this runtime has not been hardened against malicious peers on the same internal network and chroot's and other techniques are not yet implemented. we're trying to work out logistics for torrent seeding before distributing the build tools to remaster your own vmware installers and customize the privacy appliance. we're working on fixing known issues and anticipate a how it works in a nutshell: - start the vmware instance with 128M ram and 200M disk (image is 38M compressed) - a public SMB share is provided with a Run.BAT install script - script installs a MS PPTP VPN connection to forward all traffic through the appliance - privacy (privoxy) and anonymity (tor) is enabled by default. you can select privacy only for a faster browsing experience with ads and popups filtered. a note on auto updates: remove the /etc/janus directory to prevent the automatic update check. we intend to use this to deploy security critical patches, filtering updates to privoxy, and other maintenance. you can apply these changes by hand or disable them completely as desired.