Re: Anonymous Web Browsing
- From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) - At 5:24 AM 3/2/96, dwhite@pris.bc.ca wrote: - > My question is this: Would it be possible to create a web site that - >would function along the same lines as remailers do? Something that would - >allow a person to browse anonymously. So lets say I surfed into a - Tim May writes: - Your intuitions are correct, that protection steps are needed. The - technology is developing, but the perceived need (anonymous browsing) is - probably less than the perceived need for anonymous e-mail. simple, not real secure solutions: find a unix host, run the cern httpd server, turn on proxying, turn off logs. (about 10-15 minute setup) if this is not run often, it works well. use netcom (or something similiar) that gives you dynamic ip addresses. as a bonus, netcom doesn't require an actual name or address. (yes, they require a CC#). this allows fairly anonymous access. (prehaps one reason the neeed for web proxies isn't that high) glenn
On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Powers Glenn wrote:
use netcom (or something similiar) that gives you dynamic ip addresses. as a bonus, netcom doesn't require an actual name or address. (yes, they require a CC#). this allows fairly anonymous access. (prehaps one reason the neeed for web proxies isn't that high)
I wouldn't give Netcom my CC# if my life depended on it. They have a really lousy record of people breaking in, stealing their lists of CC numbers, then Netcom trying to sweep it under the rug and not telling their users that their CC# was compromised. Besides, their service really sucks, and their technical "support" doesn't exist. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring
Little cryptographic relevance... Ed Carp <erc@dal1820.computek.net> writes:
I wouldn't give Netcom my CC# if my life depended on it. They have a really lousy record of people breaking in, stealing their lists of CC numbers, then Netcom trying to sweep it under the rug and not telling their users that their CC# was compromised.
Besides, their service really sucks, and their technical "support" doesn't exist.
I heard they have many more people using their system than it can handle, so the response time is really bad. Also several people complained that they tried to cancel a netcom account and netcom kept on billing their credit card. (I'd never deal with an ISP who doesn't accept checks or money orders. And I mean checks, not automatic withdrawals from a checking account.) dhp.com has been recommended to me as an ISP that respects its users privacy. --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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