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2009-07-07T01:57:00.001-07:00

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adj., gay·er, gay·est.

Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
Given to social pleasures.
Dissolute; licentious.

A person whose sexual orientation is to persons of the same sex.
A man whose sexual orientation is to men: an alliance of gays and lesbians.

[Middle English gai, lighthearted, brightly colored, from Old French, possibly of Germanic origin.]

gayness gay'ness n.

USAGE NOTE The word gay is now standard in its use to refer to people whose orientation is to the same sex, in large part because it is the term that most gay people prefer in referring to themselves. Gay is distinguished from homosexual primarily by the emphasis it places on the cultural and social aspects of homosexuality as opposed to sexual practice. Many writers reserve gay for males, but the word is also used to refer to both sexes; when the intended meaning is not clear in the context, the phrase gay and lesbian may be used. Gay is often considered objectionable when used as a noun to refer to particular individuals, as in There were two gays on the panel; here phrasing such as Two members of the panel were gay should be used instead. But there is no objection to the use of the noun in the plural to refer collectively either to gay men or to gay men and lesbians, so long as it is clear whether men alone or both men and women are being discussed. See Usage Notes at homosexual.

adjective

Characterized by joyful exuberance: blithe, blithesome, boon², convivial, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful. See happy/unhappy.
Full of color: bright, colorful, rich, vivid. See colors/colorless.
Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to members of one's own sex: homophile, homosexual, lesbian. See sex/asexual.
Lacking in moral restraint: abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton, wild. See restraint/unrestraint.

Macho Hunk

2009-07-07T01:56:00.002-07:00

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n., pl. -ies.

1. The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or animal.
2. The physical part of a person.
3. A corpse or carcass.
1. The trunk or torso of a human or animal.
2. The part of a garment covering the torso.
1. A human; a person.
2. A group of individuals regarded as an entity; a corporation.
A number of persons, concepts, or things regarded as a group: We walked out in a body.
The main or central part, as:
1. Anatomy. The largest or principal part of an organ; corpus.
2. The nave of a church.
3. The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendixes.
4. The passenger- and cargo-carrying part of an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle.
5. Music. The sound box of an instrument.
A mass of matter that is distinct from other masses: a body of water; a celestial body.
A collection or quantity, as of material or information: the body of evidence.
Consistency of substance, as in paint, textiles, or wine: a sauce with body.
Printing. The part of a block of type underlying the impression surface.

tr.v., -ied, -y·ing, -ies.

To furnish with a body.
To give shape to. Usually used with forth: “Imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown” (Shakespeare).

[Middle English bodi, from Old English bodig.]

Stud & Stallion

2009-07-07T01:56:00.001-07:00

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n.

1. A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short-haired coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.
2. An adult male horse; a stallion.
3. Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species E. przewalskii or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.
A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.
Sports. A vaulting horse.
Slang. Heroin.
Horsepower. Often used in the plural.
Mounted soldiers; cavalry: a squadron of horse.
Geology.
1. A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.
2. A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

v., horsed, hors·ing, hors·es. v.tr.

To provide with a horse.
To haul or hoist energetically: “Things had changed little since the days of the pyramids, with building materials being horsed into place by muscle power” (Henry Allen).

v.intr.

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

adj.

Of or relating to a horse: a horse blanket.
Mounted on horses: horse guards.
Drawn or operated by a horse.
Larger or cruder than others that are similar: horse pills.

phrasal verb:

horse around Informal.

To indulge in horseplay or frivolous activity: Stop horsing around and get to work.

idioms:

a horse of another (or a different) color

Another matter entirely; something else.

beat (or flog) a dead horse

To continue to pursue a cause that has no hope of success.
To dwell tiresomely on a matter that has already been decided.

be (or get) on (one's) high horse

To be or become disdainful, superior, or conceited.

hold (one's) horses

To restrain oneself.

the horse's mouth

A source of information regarded as original or unimpeachable.

[Middle English, from Old English hors.]

Download Media

2009-07-07T01:55:00.000-07:00

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tr.v., -load·ed, -load·ing, -loads.

To unload: download cargo from a transport aircraft.
Computer Science. To transfer (data or programs) from a server or host computer to one's own computer or device.

Download can refer to:

Uploading and downloading, transferring a file to or from another computer
Download (band), an industrial band led by cEvin Key, side-project of the band Skinny Puppy.
Download (TV series), an Australian television series
Download, an Australian children's game show
Download Festival, a British rock festival.
Download.com, the world's largest internet download directory website.
Downloaded (Battlestar Galactica), a Battlestar Galactica Season 2 episode.
File sharing, the up- and downloading of files over a distributed peer network
Music download
Download!, an application for ReactOS similar to Synaptic
Download, a song by rapper Lil Kim

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Horsy Miscellaneous

2009-07-07T01:54:00.000-07:00

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n.

The study of the positions and aspects of celestial bodies in the belief that they have an influence on the course of natural earthly occurrences and human affairs.
Obsolete. Astronomy.

[Middle English astrologie, from Old French, from Latin astrologia, from Greek astrologiā : astro-, astro- + -logiā, -logy.]

astrologer as·trol'o·ger n.
astrological as'tro·log'i·cal (ăs'trə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) or as'tro·log'ic adj.
astrologically as'tro·log'i·cal·ly adv.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - astrologi, stjernetydning

Nederlands (Dutch)
astrologie

Français (French)
n. - astrologie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Astrologie, Sterndeuterei

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αστρολογία

Italiano (Italian)
astrologia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - astrologia (f)

Русский (Russian)
астрология

Español (Spanish)
n. - astrología

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - astrologi

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
占星术, 占星学

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 占星術, 占星學

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 점성학[술], 천문학

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 占星術

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) علم التنجيم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אסטרולוגיה‬

Surf Internet Anonymously

2009-07-04T21:54:00.000-07:00

Surf Internet Anonymously or even Invisibly with ...

Free Proxy!

People like Uncle Sam or Google obviously wouldn't like it but Yes, you can.

Anonymous surfing allows you to surf the web without leaving a trail of particulars about your browser, your computer system, your country, IP address, etc. This is usually done by entering the address (URL) of the site you wish to go to at the free anonymous surfing proxy site, and that site will retrieve the page for you and present it to you. The site you visit will not receive any particulars about your system, your IP address etc because the proxy will not have transmitted such particulars to it.

If you are particularly concerned about privacy and anonymity while surfing, you should note that, when using most of the free anonymous surfing facilities, the URLs you visit are easily gleaned by others. If absolute privacy is your concern, you might want to explore commercial solutions such as Steganos Internet Anonym and Anonymizer's Total Net Shield which encrypt all your traffic (including your URLs) in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) giving you privacy from people snooping your connection (say) when you're connected via wireless broadband, and even privacy from your ISP. Some of these commercial solutions may provide other benefits as well, such as encrypting your email, IM and chats, etc.

Disclaimer

The information provided on this page comes without any warranty whatsoever. Use it at your own risk. Just because a program, book, document or service is listed here or has a good review does not mean that I endorse or approve of the program or of any of its contents. All the other standard disclaimers also apply.

Free Anonymous Surfing or Browse with Privacy Protection

Proxify

Proxify provides you with secure (SSL) anonymous surfing. It removes cookies, scripts, ads, referrer information and optionally page titles. It hides your user agent (which provides information like the name of your browser and operating system) and optionally, the referrer information sent by the browser.

HTMLBLocker

The Anonymous Web Browser allows you to surf the internet anonymously, optionally removing cookies, the browser referer field, scripts (such as JavaScripts, VBScripts, etc), images, and objects (such as Flash, Java, etc). It can also encrypt your URLs and Cookies. You can also change the User-Agent (browser type) that the service sends to the website you're visiting. There is a 2 MB download limit, and a 5 second anti-flood timer.

ShadowSurf

ShadowSurf provides free anonymous surfing.

@nonymouse

This free anonymous surfing service allows you to type into a URL into their website and it will retrieve that web page for you.

Guardster

You can surf the Internet from this free anonymous web service. It is able to strip cookies, scripts, images, hide your referrer field, hide your user agent (name of browser), remove the page title, etc.

The Cloak

The-cloak allows you to surf to other websites, strip away JavaScript code that that site may place on your pages, remove images, cookies, etc, while at the same time prevent certain information about your location and computer from being transmitted to that site. They place a limit of the number of times you can use their free service from a particular IP address.

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Surf Internet Without A Trace

2009-07-03T22:01:00.000-07:00

How to surf anonymously without a trace?

Is That Possible? You Bet ...

By SurfGuru

Several ways to protect yourself from the feds and others

The punchline to an old cartoon is "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog," but these days, that's no longer true.

It's easier than ever for the government, Web sites and private businesses to track exactly what you do online, know where you've visited, and build up comprehensive profiles about your likes, dislikes and private habits.

And with the federal government increasingly demanding online records from sites such as Google and others, your online privacy is even more endangered.

But you don't need to be a victim. There are things you can do to keep your surfing habits anonymous and protect your online privacy. So read on to find out how to keep your privacy to yourself when you use the Internet, without spending a penny.

What they know about you

Whenever you surf the Web, you leave yourself open to being snooped upon by Web sites. They can track your online travels, know what operating system and browser you're running, find out your machine name, uncover the last sites you've visited, examine your history list, delve into your cache, examine your IP address and use that to learn basic information about you such as your geographic location and more. To a great extent, your Internet life is an open book when you visit.

Sites use a variety of techniques to gather and collate this information, but the two most basic are examining your IP address and placing cookies on your PC. Matching your IP address with your cookies makes it easier for them to create personal profiles.

If you'd like to see what kind of information sites can gather about you, head to these two sites, which peer into your browser and report what they find.

Privacy Analysis of Your Internet Connection gathers and displays basic information, such as your operating system, screen resolution, what site you previously visited, general system setup and so on.

BrowserSpy delves even deeper into your system and even reports on whether you have certain software on your system, such as RealPlayer and Adobe Acrobat, including version information.

Protect yourself: Surf anonymously

The best way to make sure Web sites can't gather personal information about you and your computer is to surf anonymously by using an anonymous proxy server that sits between you and the Web sites you visit.

When you use an anonymous proxy server, your browser doesn't contact a Web site directly. Instead, it tells a proxy server which Web sites you want to visit. The proxy server then contacts the Web site, and when you get the Web site's page, you don't get it directly from the site. Instead, it's delivered to you by the proxy server. In that way, your browser never directly contacts the Web server whose site you want to view. The Web site sees the IP address of the proxy server, not your PC's IP address. It can't read your cookies, see your history list or examine your clipboard and cache because your PC is never in direct contact with it. You're able to surf without a trace.

There are three primary ways to use anonymous proxy servers. You can configure your browser to use a such a server (or get software to do it for you); you can visit an "anonymizer" Web site, which does the work of contacting the server; or you can download software that will ensure your anonymity when you use the Internet. We'll look at how to do each.

Keep yourself anonymous with Tor

The best free software you can find for being anonymous when you use the Web is to use the free Tor. When you use Tor, all your communications -- not just Web surfing, but also instant messaging and other applications -- are in essence bounced around a giant network of Tor servers called "onion routers" until it's impossible for sites or people to be able to track your activities.

Setting up Tor is straightforward. Download a package that includes not just Tor, but other software you need to work with it, such as Privoxy, a proxy program. All the software is self-configuring, so you won't need to muck around with port settings or the like. Tor runs as a small icon in your system tray. To start Tor, right-click it and choose Start from the menu that appears; to stop it, right-click it and choose Stop.

Once it starts, simply use the Internet as you normally would. If you're superparanoid, you can regularly change your Tor "identity" to make it even harder for anyone to track your travels. Right-click the Tor icon, and select "New Identity." That's all it takes.

Tor also includes a nice bandwidth tool that has nothing to do with anonymity but that graphs your bandwidth use. Right-click the Tor icon, and choose Bandwidth Graph. You can see it in action, along with Tor's right-click context menu, in the nearby figure.

Firefox users will want to download the Torbutton, which will let them turn Tor on and off from directly within the browser.

I've found only one drawback to Tor: At times, I've noticed a slowdown in surfing when using it. But that comes and goes, and slowdowns aren't that extreme. So if you're worried about your privacy when you surf, it's a great bet.

Tor keeps you safe when surfing and has extras such as a bandwidth graph.
(Click image to see larger view).

Web sites that let you surf anonymously for free

A number of free Web sites offer free anonymous surfing via proxy servers. The benefits of these sites are obvious: When you surf, you're anonymous. But there are some drawbacks as well. Surfing tends to be slower -- and in some cases very slow. And when you use these Web sites, some sites you visit from them don't display properly.

The sites all work pretty much the same. Head to them, and in a box, type the Web site you want to visit. From that point on, you'll be surfing anonymously; the site does the work of using an anonymous proxy server for you.

The Cloak is one such service. It lets you customize exactly how anonymous you want to be and what surfing technologies you want to leave on or off. It goes beyond providing anonymity and can protect you in other ways -- for example, by turning off Java and JavaScript or even blocking banner ads. As you can see in the nearby screenshot, you can configure all that yourself before you start to surf.

Configuring anonymous surfing with the Cloak
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Once you do that, you type in the address you want to visit, and you're off. As you browse in your browser's address bar, you'll notice an odd URL that contains the Cloak's URL as well as the site you're visiting. For example, if you visit CNN, you'll see something like this:

http://www.the-cloak.com/Cloaked/+cfg=31/http%3A//www.cnn.com/

Note that if you want to remain anonymous during your surfing session after you visit the first Web site from The Cloak, you'll have to only click links. If you type a URL directly into the address bar, the Cloak will no longer work.

The Cloak is free, but it has some limitations. You'll surf more slowly than normally, and the slowdown may become noticeable. One reason is that the site also offers a for-pay service, and so it throttles down free users, while letting those who pay surf without a throttle. And the site may also limit the amount of time you surf anonymously as well, depending on whether many users are logged in simultaneously.

Use your browser with an anonymous proxy

If you don't like the limitations imposed on you by sites like the Cloak or would simply prefer to configure anonymous surfing yourself, you can easily set up your browser to use an anonymous proxy server to sit between you and the sites you visit.

To use an anonymous proxy server with your browser, first find an anonymous proxy server. Hundreds of free, public proxy servers are available, but many frequently go offline or are very slow. Many sites compile lists of these proxy servers, including Public Proxy Servers and the Atom InterSoft proxy server list. To find others, do a Google search.

I prefer Atom InterSoft proxy server list because it provides more information about each server. It lists server uptime percentage and the last time the server was checked to see if it was online.

Find the server with the highest percentage of uptime. Write down the server's IP address and the port it uses. For example, in the listing 24.236.148.15:80, the IP address is 24.236.148.15, and the port number is 80.

In Internet Explorer, select Tools-->Internet Options, click the Connections tab, and click the LAN Settings button. Check the "Use a proxy server for your LAN" box. In the Address field, type in the IP address of the proxy server. In the Port field, type in its port number. Check the "Bypass proxy server for local addresses" box; you don't need to remain anonymous on your local network. Click OK and then OK again to close the dialog boxes. Now when you surf the Web, the proxy server will protect your privacy. Keep in mind that proxy servers can make surfing the Web slower, depending on the proxy you're using.

In Firefox, select Tools -->Advanced, click the Network tab, and click the Settings button. Choose "Manual proxy configuration," enter the proxy information (IP address and port number), and click OK and then OK again

Problems with anonymous proxy servers

If you set up your browser to use anonymous proxies, as I just outlined, you need to keep in mind that there's one potential danger: Theoretically, a hacker could set up a proxy server, and then use it to capture information about the Web sites you visit. And if you type in user names and passwords, he could steal those as well.

I haven't heard of this actually happening in the real world, but you should be aware that it's a possibility. Using software like Tor or a free proxy server like the Cloak won't expose you to this danger; only the use of public proxy servers does.

How can you protect yourself against this? Before using a proxy server, do a Google search on its name and address to see if there are any reports about hackers using it. And it's also a good idea to only use a server that you notice have been on the lists a long time, because hackers are not likely to keep a server running a long time without being caught or shutting it down.

What else you can do

There are other ways to help protect your anonymity online. If you're worried that your searches may be used by search engines or government agencies to invade your privacy or create a profile about you, see Seven ways to keep your search history private.

If you want to be able to send e-mail anonymously so that no one can find out that you sent it, you can use an anonymous remailer such as the Web-based Anonymouse's AnonEmail or the downloadable QuickSilver.

There are also plenty of for-pay anonymity services, such as the Anonymizer, and the Anonymizer's new Nyms service, which uses utilizes disposable e-mail addresses to protect your true e-mail identity.

Finally, for a very good all-around resource about how to protect your privacy online, check out the Electronic Privacy Information Center's Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools. It has plenty of links to software and sites to help protect your privacy.

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Hiding IP Address

2009-07-02T22:03:00.000-07:00

Hiding Your IP Address Using HTTP, CONNECT, CGI/PHP/WEB, SOCKS proxies

Anonymous Internet Surfing

The HOWTO

You could try reading about wingates, socks and proxies (oh before i forget, turn off java, javascript, cookies, what's related, and smart update ... if you are using IE you're not very smart). Also try installing a firewall, or DHCP or you can learn from me!

There are situations in which you may want to visit a site without leaving a trace of the visit. For instance you want to check what's going on at your competitor's site. Your visit will generate a record in the log file. Frequent visits will generate many records. Do you want to know what kind of records? See in YOUR REQUEST, YOUR WHOIS RECORD and GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, Privacy Analysis of your Internet Connection, Another Privacy Investigation Report, BrowserSpy Info, ShowMyIP - will tell you some scary info about what can be told about your computer via the internet.

Note that these tests are not very sophisticated. A dedicated "snooper" can often learn much more. Once I came across a server that tried to connect to my computer's disk while I was browsing ... that was an exciting experince. You should also remember about things like cookies, hostile applets and java scripts, browser security holes and so on. So why don't we send someone instead of ourselves? Good idea.

Remember that simple owner of Web server may collect information about requests you had performed in search engines, keywords you had typed, your browser and language, date, time, your operating system, physical and geographical position, pages from which you had clicked links and so on. See below some records generated by our server users (real IPs are slightly changed).. Note that large internet companies such as doubleclick, google, government institutions have tremendous possibilities to collect much more information about you and your behaviour..

24.10.31.1 - - [17/Oct/2006:07:03:22 +0000] "GET /proxy/howto.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 33104

"http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q=change+ip+address+proxy&btnG=Google+Search"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7"
217.154.66.1 - - [17/Oct/2006:07:03:25 +0000] "GET /proxy/ HTTP/1.1" 200 37361
"http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=http+proxy+for+ftp&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6"

Step #1-Determine your IP Address:

Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique identifier called an IP Address. On many networks, the IP Address of a computer is always the same. On other networks, a random IP Address is assigned each time a computer connects to the network. This is what we are referring to when we ask if you have a static or a dynamic IP Address. If a system uses dynamic addressing, the IP can change quite often. Look into REMOTE_ADDR row in THIS LINK to determing your current IP Address.

Step #2-Get Anonymous:

Method #1: Anonymizer

One can surf anonymously and easy with the help of a nice services called CGI/Web proxies. Simply type a URL you want to visit -- the Page does the job for you, selecting random CGI/Web proxy from a hundreds of available services, securing you from many potential dangers. When you follow a link on a page viewed via CGI proxy you get there via the this proxy again, so you don't have to type a new URL.

CGI/Web proxy has two more nice features. Firstly, there are WWW sites that are inaccessible from one place, but easily accessible from another. Once I was trying to load a page located in Australia for 20 minutes, all in vain. Using CGI/Web proxies immediately solved the problem. Secondly, there are certain sites that give you information depending on where you are "calling" from. Let's take an example. I was at Encyclopedia Britannica site, trying to check the price for their products. Clicking on Order Information button gave me the list of Britannica's dealers all over the world, no price info. Going to the same place via the Anonymizer led me to a different page, where I found the price list. As it turned out the local dealer's price for Encyclopedia Britannica CD was several times higher than the one at which it's sold in USA. Good savings!

Some CGI/Web proxies are able to encrypt URLs (uniform resource locator) in a way that these can be used as reference for a server. If a request with an encrypted URL occurs, they are able to decrypt the URL and forward it to the server, without enabling the user to get knowledge about the server address. All references in the servers response are again encrypted before the response is forwarded to the client.

Some CGI/Web proxies are able to use secure HTTPS protocol for exchanging data between proxy and your computer, even if original server is not secure. This option excluding possiblility to sniff a data flow between your computer and this proxy is very useful in some cases, for example, when you are forced to work in possibly scanned/sniffed insecure public network.

To get your personal CGI/Web/FTP proxy simply download free James Marshall CGIproxy script and install on your Web server (Apache as a rule, Perl or mod_perl support is required), Glype proxy is another CGI script written in PHP which allows webmasters to quickly and easily set up their own proxy sites or PHProxy.

Method #2: Proxy Servers

What is proxy?

Proxy - a server setup designed to offer either firewall security or faster access to cached content normally accessible only through slower connections.
Proxy server - is the software installed on some network server. The main purpose of this software is to relay traffic between two network hosts (client and server), sometimes this software does some data caching (usually this is performed by HTTP proxies). If your browser is configured to work through the proxy server then all your network traffic will go through that proxy server.

The main purposes of proxy servers:

Transfer speed improvement (in case of caching proxies). You may use your ISP's proxy to access the internet - usually you have better connection to your ISP's proxy than to other hosts, if this proxy has the resource you requested from the internet you will get a copy of it from proxy (from its cache).
Security and privacy (for HTTP). Anonymous proxies hide information about your computer in the request headers, so you can safely surf the net and your information will never be used in any way.
LAN interconnection (or LAN to WAN connection). Sometimes you experience some problems while accessing the server located in the other network (for example in the internet).

There are 3 types of HTTP proxies:

Fully anonymous (elite or high anonymous) proxies. Such proxies do not change request fields and look like real browser. You real IP is also hidden of course. People that administrating internet servers will think that you are not using any proxies.
Anonymous proxies also do not show your real IP but change the request fields, so it is very easy to detect that proxy while log analyzing. Nothing really matters, but some server administrators restrict the proxy requests.
Transparent proxies (not anonymous, simply HTTP) change the request fields, also they transfer real IP. Such proxies are not applicable for security and privacy while surfing on net. You can use them only for network speed improvement.

When Web Proxy Servers are Useful?

Permitting and restricting client access to the Internet based on the client IP Address.
Caching documents for internal documents. - Selectively controlling access to the Internet and subnets based on the submitted URL.
Providing Internet access for companies using private networks.
Converting data to HTML format so it is readable by a browser.

One can also anonymize one's web surfing by using a proxy server. Proxy servers are similar to the Anonymizer, i.e. web pages are retrieved by the proxy server rather than by the person actually browsing the Web (you). But there are several important distinctions: proxy servers don't help with cookies, hostile applets or code. In most of the cases they do just one thing: they conceal your real geograhic location.

Most of proxy servers restrict access based on the IP Address from which a user connects to them. In other words if you have an account with Bluh-Bluh-Com, you can't use La-Di-Da-Net's proxy server, access will be denied. Fortunately you can always find a "kind-hearted" proxy server on the Net the owners of which openly state that the service is publicly available, or a proxy server that doesn't restrict access that due to whatever reason, but the fact is not known to everyone.

How do you find a "kind-hearted" proxy server? Good news for lazy people: there are many lists of available proxy servers with periodic updates: http://rosinstrument.com/proxy/. RSS feeds are also available for proxy lists syndication and to keep up with proxy lists in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays, such us Google Reader, Bloglines, etc.: in browser, in Google Reader, planetlab in browser, planetlab in Google Reader.

For those who are not so lazy: find your own proxy server, it's real easy. Go to your favorite search engine (Google.com for example) and type something like +":8080" +":3128" +":1080" filetype:txt OR filetype:html, and you'll get the list of Web pages where ISPs give complete instructions to their users of how they should configure their browsers. Try every proxy address and after 5 or 7 failures you will surely find a proxy server that works for you. So let's say you have found a proxy, e.g.: some.proxy.com, HTTP port 8080. To make your browser use a proxy server fill out the corresponding fields in Manual Proxy Configuration tab (hope you can find it yourself).

Testing proxy lists you have found.

As a rule a quality of proxies from proxy lists you have found by such ways is sufficiently low because of large number of requests to these proxies by many users which have found that lists in search engine, number of professional abusers and robots using these proxies very intensive for network adverising, spamming, flooding forums, bulletin boards, blogs and so on. Number of working proxies from such lists varies from 0.00% to 10-20%. Therefore manual selection of operable proxies is not possible. Fortunately, a few of proxy testing software exists such as our ProxyCheck Java application, Proxyrama for Windows with source code available, Charon for Windows and others. See our Related Links for more examples.

Warnings!

Misconfigured Servers: Often, a PUBLIC proxy server is open because it has not been configured properly. Most of open proxy servers are not supposed to be public. The person that configured the server was not aware of the potential problems and security risks. It is very common to for a novice administrator to set up a proxy with access rights that allow anyone to connect. To close a proxy server it is necessary to force users to connect from one IP Address or a range of IP Addresses. An alternative is to require users to use a user name and password.
'Honey Pots' or 'Honey Proxies': Everything that is done on or through the open proxy server can be logged and traced. A honey pot is an open proxy server intentionally deployed by security professionals to lure hackers and track their every move. A honey pot can also be installed by a hacker. A hacker can put a proxy server up on his, or a victim's computer and wait for a scanner to find it. Sending spam e-mail trough a honey pot proxy exposes the sender's activity. When a spammer uses the proxy to send bulk email, it is possible to collect the content of the spam and report the spammer to his ISP.
Educational, academic public proxy systems: Planetlab, CoDeeN: The CoDeeN (a suite of network services, including a CDN, that provides users with more robust access to network content) proxies are big, fast, logged and cached proxy servers cluster based on PlanetLab (a global platform for testing and deploying an emerging class of planetary-scale network services) global research network which was founded in 2002 in Princeton, Berkley and now consists of more than 700 nodes located in many educational and research institutions in the world opened for public use. These proxies are often placed in many "anonymous proxy lists" such as "high anonymous" and "elite", HOWEVER everything you do online is thoroughly tracked. As a rule these proxies are configured on 3124,3127,3128,8888 TCP ports. Some limitations for these proxies usage also exist, for example HTTP POST method is disabled.
Security Risks: When you use an open proxy server, your computer is making a direct connection to another computer. You do not know who is in control of the remote computer. If you are using proxy servers from open proxy lists, you could be trusting your email messages, passwords or other sensitive information to a person running the server. Someone can be watching the unencrypted information you are transferring over the network.

Configuring your browser to easy switch between multiple proxy configurations

There are many different software that could be used to set up a proxy for your system. For example small and free SwitchProxy Tool Extension for Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird. SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes. Text proxy lists in host:port format are very flexible and can be used with most proxy software for Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera and other browsers.

Configuring your browser with "Proxy Auto-Config File" proxy.pac

Definition

The proxy auto-config (.pac) file defines how user agents can automatically choose the appropriate access method for fetching a given URL. See Wikipedia article for more detailed description.

Firefox

Go to Tools -> Options -> General -> Connection Settings. Select the option to enter an automatic proxy configuration URL. Enter http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/proxy.pac and click OK twice.

Firefox 2

Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings. Select the option to enter an automatic proxy configuration URL. Enter http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/proxy.pac and click OK twice.

Internet Explorer

Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections. If you use a dialup connection, select it and click Settings. Otherwise, click LAN Settings. Select the option to use an automatic configuration script. Make sure no other options are selected. Enter http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/proxy.pac and click OK twice.

only SOCKS, CONNECT or HTTP selection

to select only HTTP proxy use http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/http.pac as configuration script.
to select only CONNECT (HTTPS) proxy use http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/https.pac as configuration script.
to select only SOCKS proxy use http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/socks.pac as configuration script.

Configuring your browser manually

FireFox

Tools - Options - General - Connection Settings - Manual proxy configuration - View, and for HTTP and FTP type name of your proxy server (example: proxy.net) and port number (example 3128).

Mozilla, Nestcape Navigator 6.x, Nestcape Navigator 4.x, Netscape Communicator

Edit - Preferences - Category - Advanced - Proxies - Manual proxy configuration - View - Set proxy for following protocols: HTTP, FTP, etc.

Konqueror

Setting - Configure Konqueror... - Proxies - Enable "Use proxy" - Set proxies for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP or other protocols.

Internet Explorer 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x

Service - Internet Options - Connections - Choose your connection and click "Settings" button for dial-up connection or click "LAN Settings" button in the "Local Area Network (LAN) Settings" group box - Enable "use a proxy server - type proxy name and proxy port - If nessesary, enable/disable "bypass proxy server for local addresses" - OK

Internet Explorer 4.x, Internet Explorer 3.x

View - Internet Options - Connection - mark "Access the Internet using a proxy server". At ADDRESS type name of the server (example: proxy.net) and at PORT type port number (example: 3128), click on advanced button and mark "Use the same proxy server for all protocols".

Opera 8.x, Opera 9.x

Tools - Preferences - Advanced tab - Network - "Proxy servers" button - set Proxy Server address and proxy configuration port - OK.

Mozilla Thunderbird proxy settings

Tools - Options - Advanced - "Offline and Connections Settings" -"Connection Settings" - "Set up Proxies for accessing the Internet" - select radio button for "Manual proxy configuration" - set Proxy Server address and proxy port - OK.

mIRC

Tools - Options - Open Connect - Firewall - in "protocols" combo box select SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or Proxy (for HTTP, HTTPS) - set Proxy Server address and proxy port - OK.

Emule

Options - Proxy tab - enable check box "Enable proxy" - choose the SOCKS4, SOCKS4a, SOCKS5 or HTTP 1.1 - enter "Proxy host" and "Proxy port" - OK.

Kazaa

Tools - Options - "Firewall" tab - select "Use SOCKS5 Proxy Server" - set proxy addres in "Hostname" field and proxy port in "Port" field - OK.

AOL Instant Messenger

"Setup" button - "Connections" button - "Connect using Proxy" box - set Host and Port - select protocol type - OK.

Yahoo Messenger proxy settings

MSN Messenger

Tools - Options - "Connection" - "Advanced Settings" - set proxy address and port - OK.

Windows Media Player 9.x, 8.x, 7.x

Tools - Options - Network tab - in the Proxy Settings area click protocol you going to configure - select 'Use browser proxy settings' or change this setting to manually configured proxy - OK.

Once you have carried out this simple operation, you can start surfing the Web leaving traces as if you are from Bulgaria, USA, North Korea (that would be fun!) or somewhere else, but ...there is one more very important privacy concern, "Is My Proxy Anonymous?".

Is My Proxy Anonymous?

Not all proxy servers are truly anonymous. Some of them let the system administrator of the site that you visit via a proxy server find out the IP Address from which the proxy server is accessed, i.e. your real IP Address. You can perform an anonymity check test: DETECT PROXY

If you get the message: Proxy server is detected! - then there is a security hole in your proxy, and information about your real IP Address will be listed. If the message is Proxy server is not detected - everything should be OK. In any case, carefully study the list of IP Addresses that is returned by this online tool. None of them should belong to you. You can also use alternative tests to check if your browser is anonymous. Such tests can give a complete list of the parametrs your browser passes to a remote server (this is called Environmental Variables).

Where are these proxies from?

Sometimes is required to determine Country, City or even geographical latitude and longitude to select from proxies list or servers list. Now it possible HERE, due to bulk interface to geoiplookup utility. Paste HERE your public proxies or simply hosts list in simple text format and press "Lookup GeoIP info" button. As a result you'll get your bulk proxies list opposite to corresponding Country, City, Longitude and Latitude and even link to Google Map of this server geographical location.

Test My Proxy Speed

Anonymity and Caching for speedup surfing are priority aims of Proxy servers. But not all proxy servers sufficiently fast for comfortable surfing due to high server load, bad/slow client-server connection and so on. To determine does proxy you have selected have sufficient speed for you CLICK HERE to measure your connection speed twice, first, without proxy configured, second, with proxy configured. If you'll have received sufficiently similar results for measured speed in both cases, so the configured proxy has speed capabilities sufficient for your connection speed. Otherwise try to select and to test another proxy.

Final Considerations

In spite of all of the the above said ... use proxies only when it's necessary. Working via proxy servers slows down data transfer rate and is an additional load on the network and the servers. Another important thing that is often forgotten by many people: use proxies for legal purposes. Hiding you identity is ok (at least in the free world) as long as you want to visit a site that offers, say, pornography. But if you use a proxy server for purchasing CDs or software with a bogus credit card number there is a good chance that you'll end up in prison, let alone the moral aspects. Remeber, all the connections are logged, and if you violate the law you can be tracked down. The site administrator can check the logs and contact the proxy's administrator, he can in turn check his own logs and find your real IP Address, then they both will contact your ISP, and your ISP keeps logs too ... Anyway, I hope you got it.

Specially for paranoiacs

Look, different tools described above can be chained! For example you set up your browser to use Proxy A, and you know the addresses and port numbers of 2 more servers Proxy B and Proxy C. The URL that you type should look something like that: http://proxyB:port/http://proxyC:port/http://www.whereyougo.com/ As the result you go to the site via 3 servers: A,B and C. One of them can be the Anonymizer. WARNING: Not all the proxy servers allow chains like that. Such capabilities exist ONLY for CGI/Web proxies (pay attention to chaining CGI proxy combobox), HTTP proxies with CONNECT capabilities (additional software is required for chaining, usually such software supports both SOCKS and CONNECT proxies, see examples for SOCKS) and SOCKS proxies (such software is required as Prtunnel, Proxyrama and others).

Anonymity and Myths

Anonymity is derived from the greek word ανωνυμία, meaning without a name or name-less. In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the Ppersonal identity, or personally identifiable information of that person is not known.

The main question is of course, what are you trying to hide? Closely following that is how important is it? The precautions you take have to weigh up to the value of the data you are trying to protect, in this case, you are trying to protect your anonymity. In the recent years privacy and anonymity have become big issues with CCTV cameras everywhere, and projects like Echelon reading all your e-mails and reporting back to the Orwellian ‘Big Brother’. So just for normal surfing, or if you are planning on hacking a foreign governments personnel database (not that we recommend that of course), you need to protect yourself in different ways.

Remember Anonymity is not an absolute, there are varying degrees.

The Myths

Using a proxy I found on the web in my browser is enough.

People have been using proxies for years, normally open proxies found from scanning large IP ranges on the internet, what you have to think though, is this proxy open for a purpose? Is this purpose to listen to what you are doing? To collect your passwords? Also it’s not infallible, remember the traffic has to go from your computer to the proxy, and come back in, those records can be corelated in your country alone and need to external aid. Plus the proxy may keep records of who access what and when, it make be a honeypot and keep full packet logs of all completed TCP/IP sessions. The problem is you just don’t know.

If I chain proxies no one can find me.

Also not true, it doesn’t matter if you cross through Taiwan, Korea, Russia and Iraq, your ISP just needs to see the packets going out and coming in at the right times to your machine from the last proxy hop in your chain.

The Reality

It can be said, pretty much whole heartedly, there is no such thing as real anonymity online, if you do something bad enough, the people in power can find you. IP Spoofing is misunderstood in 9/10 cases and is no protection against anything (I’ll write an article about this later). And web proxies, as above, offer little or no protection. They are good enough if you just want to stop your school/parents/office from tracking your surfing habits, but they won’t protect you from doing time if you commit a federal crime. The next best thing from this is Onion Routing, the common peer to peer implementation known as Tor.

Onion Routing prevents the transport medium from knowing who is communicating with whom — the network knows only that communication is taking place. In addition, the content of the communication is hidden from eavesdroppers up to the point where the traffic leaves the OR network.

Source: Onion Router

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.

You can read more at the Tor site, the Wikipedia articles Onion routing and Tor (anonymity network).

Getting Tored Up

For most people Tor is enough, I recommend getting the Tor Bundle, which includes Tor, TorCP and Privoxy. All you need to do is set your applications to use a proxy, host is localhost and port is 8118. Instructions with screenshots are here: Linux/BSD/Unix, Windows. Then you’re done, it works for most applications. Just remember though it’s encrypted from your machine to the end point, not from the end point to wherever it’s going, so that Tor node can see whatever traffic you are sending through Tor.. So make sure you encrypt (POPS, SMTP with TLS etc).

The h07 unix research team recognized that people paranoid enough to use tor are still dumb enough to use plaintext-authentication protocols like pop3 and telnet. They might think it’s “secure because tor encrypts it”. This isn’t the case. It’s encrypted, but …… communication from client to entry node and exit node to server will still remain as is. POP3, telnet and others will still be plain-text and thus subject to sniffing.

Freenet p2p software

Freenet project is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.

Freenet can be thought of as a large storage device. When you store a file in it, you receive a key which can be used to retrieve the file. When you supply Freenet with a key, it returns the appropriate file (if it is located). The storage space is distributed among all connected nodes on Freenet.

Freenet is a Peer-to-peer network, which is both decentralized and anonymized. The nodes that you connect to only knows its nearest neighbours and has no idea about how the network as a whole is structured.

Freenet is built on the principle of small world networks. By connecting to nodes of people you already know, and the people you know in turn connect to people they know, one should be able to reach all nodes in a Freenet network.

XeroBank (aka Torpark) Browser and XeroBank anonymity network

xB Browser is an commercial anonymous web browser designed to run on both the Tor and XeroBank anonymity network. xB Browser was originally forked from Portable Firefox web browser with Tor access built into it, but was redesigned from scratch in 2007. It is designed for use on portable media such as a USB flash drive but it can also be used on any hard disk drive. The XeroBank network routes traffic through at least two multi-jurisdictional hops. In contrast to Tor, the XeroBank network is immune to 3rd-party traffic injection, supports both TCP and UDP protocols, and performs channel multiplexing for low observability, however it is run by a single entity.

True Anonymity?

It may not be totally legal, but it’s pretty much bulletproof (Unless of course you get caught in a car parking jacking off to porn downloaded from an open Wireless Access Point). When you do this, you should make sure you are using an anonymous operating system, so what better than a bootable distro especially for this purpose, called Anonym-OS, You can check it out here.

kaos.theory’s Anonym.OS LiveCD is a bootable live cd based on OpenBSD that provides a hardened operating environment whereby all ingress traffic is denied and all egress traffic is automatically and transparently encrypted and/or anonymized.

Using SocksCap client and SOCKS proxy for anonymity in non HTTP applications without build in SOCKS protocol support (telnet, ftp, IRC and so on)

What is SocksCap?: SocksCap automatically enables Windows-based TCP and UDP networking client applications to traverse a SOCKS firewall. SocksCap intercepts the networking calls from WinSock applications and redirects them through the SOCKS server without any modification to the orginal applications or to the operating system software or drivers. It is a great difference in situation with built-in SOCKS support from the years of SocksCap debut. Most network applications now have SOCKS protocol built-in support. Only few of the legacy applications need SocksCap type standalone application for SOCKS servers usage.
Where do I get SocksCap? Is SocksCap free? Is the source code available?: SocksCap now as a matter of fact is out-of-date and not supported software, but there are a lot of SocksCap clones and successors, see Related List for alternate SOCKS capable servers (SS5, Dante, 3Proxy etc.) and clients (Socks5, FreeCap etc.).
What do I enter for SOCKS server and port in SocksCap Setup?: Enter the address and port of the SOCKS server you need to traverse. If you are not sure what those are, contact your ISP, network administrator, or firewall administrator for your site or consult a lists: SOCKS LIST 1, SOCKS LIST 2.

Using HTTPort software and CONNECT/SSL/HTTPS proxy for anonymity for HTTP and non HTTP applications and bypassing of your local HTTP proxy filtering

HTTPort allows you to bypass your HTTP proxy, which is blocking you from the Internet. With HTTPort you may use various Internet software from behind the proxy, ex. e-mail, instant messengers, P2P file sharing, ICQ, News, FTP, IRC, etc. The basic idea is that you set up your Internet software in such a manner, that it connects to your own local PC as if it was the remote server it needed. HTTPort then intercepts that connection and runs it through a tunnel through the proxy.

HTTPort doesn't really care for the proxy as such, it works perfectly with firewalls, transparent accelerators, NATs and basically anything that lets HTTP protocol through. HTTP is the basis for web surfing, so if you can freely surf the web from where you are, HTTPort will bring you the rest of the Internet applications.

HTTPort performs tunneling using one of two modes. The following schemes will give you the idea.

In SSL/CONNECT mode HTTPort can make a tunnel through a proxy all by itself. It requires that the proxy supports a certain HTTP feature, specifically CONNECT HTTP method. Most of the proxies have this method disabled by default, and administrators don't readily enable it, so if you find that this tunneling mode works for you, you must be lucky. SSL/CONNECT mode much faster, but encryption can't be used in this mode and as described here, your proxy tracks all your actions easily.

Remote host method is much more capable for tunneling through just about any proxy. In this mode HTTPort uses a special server software called HTTHost installed somewhere outside of your proxy-blocked network. HTTHost is basically a web server with a twist. When HTTPort is doing tunneling, it sends series of HTTP requests to the HTTHost. The proxy sees it af if you were surfing to some web site, and consciously allows you to. HTTHost in turn performs it's half of tunneling and talks to the target servers. This mode is much slower, but works in most cases, and it features strong data encryption which makes proxy logging useless.

Surf the Internet Invisibly

2009-07-01T22:04:00.000-07:00

How To Surf the Internet Anonymously and Invisibly?

by Webmouse

As Lidsay referred to in his last post, anonymity online is not an absolute truth. If you do something really stupid and bad, the people in power eg. the government will eventually find you. And in my opinion, that's not actually that horrible if you think about it.

Nevertheless, if you're looking for some privacy from your parents or your significant other or the office or your school, there are a few methods --some stronger than others. In this post, I will detail the few methods I know, from easiest to most difficult (also weakest to strongest).

Method #1 - Install the TrackMeNot Firefox Add-On

This is the easiest and most hands-free method.

Get it HERE

TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.

TrackMeNot will simply sit in the background of your browsing experience, sending random requests to popular search engines that log the searches of each of their users. For example, mine is sending a request for "Local Sporting Events" right now. So since Google is logging everything I'm searching for, "Local Sporting Events" will be mixed in with everything I'm actually searching for, leaving a cloud of confusion. All my real searches are still in their logs, but they are mixed in with many others --making me less predictable in their eyes.

Method #2 - Surf the Internet Using CGI/Web Proxies

This method will allow you to surf the Internet without leaving any information about what browser you're using, which computer system you have, where you live, your IP address, etc., etc. How this method works is, you enter in the URL of the site you wish to visit, and the CGI/Web Proxy will retrieve it for you, not giving that website any of your information. How nice, right?

Since websites do log their visits, your information simply won't be listed there.

Here's a quick list of available CGI/Web Proxies that I know of:

Public CGI (Web, PHP) anonymous proxy free list - uses a list of several proxies and randomizes which you'll be using each time. Neat.

Box of Prox

Guardster

Proxify

Method #3 - Download, Install, and Configure TOR

This is somewhat complicated, but it's the best free solution I know.

Download the Tor Bundle HERE.

The Tor Bundle will include Tor, Vidalia (a GUI for Tor), Privoxy (a filtering web proxy), and Torbutton --all ready to work together.

After installing the Tor Bundle, Vidalia will have also installed for you the Torbutton Firefox Add-On, so all you will need to do is restart your Firefox. But if you're using something other than Firefox, see here.

Now let's change our IP Address. Go to C My IP, and you'll see your IP Address along with your location. Scary. Now right-click on the blue Tor icon and change your IP Address. Refresh that site. Are you in Russia now? England? Pretty cool.

For most people, this Tor Bundle is enough. But make sure to read the warnings --as simply installing the application is not enough to ensure (almost) complete privacy. Like I said, this method is not single step.

Furthermore, Tor can also work with most other applications --like email or instant messaging.

To Torify other applications that support HTTP proxies, just point them at Privoxy (that is, localhost port 8118). To use SOCKS directly (for instant messaging, Jabber, IRC, etc), you can point your application directly at Tor (localhost port 9050), but see this FAQ entry for why this may be dangerous. For applications that support neither SOCKS nor HTTP, take a look at SocksCap or FreeCap. (FreeCap is free software; SocksCap is proprietary.)
For information on how to Torify other applications, check out the Torify HOWTO.

Addendum - Always Clear Your Browsing History!

Like the rest of this post, I'm using Firefox. If you're using anything else, I'm sure synonyms of Tools and Privacy will work.

In your Firefox Menu, select Tools.

Select Options...

Go to the Privacy tab.

In the Private Data section, click Clear Now...

Go ahead and clear you Browsing History, Saved Form and Search History, Cache, Cookies, and Authenticated Sessions. Or any combination, really. The more you clear, the less of a footprint you're leaving.

Click OK.

These are the methods I'm aware of. Let us know in the comments any others you've been using.

Commentary

If you want to really get down to it, you might also want to spoof your MAC address. One of the aforementioned programs might already do that, but I'm not sure.

A MAC address is the unique identifier for your particular piece of hardware (network card, wireless card, bluetooth, etc.). Its information (I think) is wrapped inside every TCP packet sent from your computer. So it could potentially make its way back to you if you're not careful.

I know for Linux users it's as easy as 2 commands, for windows it might be a little tougher. Google is your friend: "Spoofing MAC addresses."

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Hi,

As far as I know, MAC address is not wrapped in the TCP header, and search engines have no way to access it, so MAC spoofing is useless.

I'm developping a firefox add-on like TrackMeNot. But I'm trying to generate more coherent and personalized queries using keywords extracted from RSS flows. Also, my add-on randomly click on some results. More information : http://squigglesr.free.fr

It's under development, so any comment will be appreciated.

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Hey Vince,

Using Wireshark for Linux, it appears that the MAC addresses are preserved inside the TCP headers up until the router. I'm guessing some routers might throw that information away. I'm sure LMU keeps logs of TCP requests.

I know at LMU each student's system login is also tied to their MAC address. I'm pretty sure this is how the school was able to track down the student so quickly. But then again, who knows.

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Yeah, if you're doing anything sketchy on campus they will track down your MAC address. I don't think search engines track it though.
December 12 | Unregistered CommenterCrapCampus

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HackCollege Days of Christm

[...] to shoot some people on campus, surfing the ‘Net anonymously has become a hot topic here. We followed up with our own post about surfing anonymously, but today we’re going to cover one of those methods a little bit more in depth: [...]

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Days of Christm

I used to use an SSH Tunneling Software while at work made by RS4U Consulting. And I personally run my own dedicated server with SSH access. Basically you configure the SSH Tunneling software to connect to your own server directly. And then the software creats the proxy settings you can change on your web browsers proxy settings.

So while you seem to be browsing all these sites, all the network admin sees where you are is you are accessing your own server. My whole story about it started when http://downloads.seoreligion.com/ssh-tunneling.html" rel="nofollow">a firewall was blocking a site I wanted to visit.

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So are common proxies like TOR not good enough for screwing around online on campus?

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@Internet Party:

Awesome update. Thanks for the tips.

@Salvia:

If the school comes after you for something and they have your outgoing logs and the server our visiting's logs, it won't take them long to figure out what you've been doing. Tor is less effective on campus if your school logs all traffic.

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what sucks is that through most proxies the java applet wont work so its hard to watch java vids through a proxy.

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Hey...is this the kelley sutton from clarks summit??...just wondering..I'm an old friend and haven't talked to the old crowd in years

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Say I work for a company which monitors my surfing habits, i.e, my Network Administrator knows all the websites I visit everyday.

Can any of these programs hide this information from him?
Can I be completely 'ANONYMOUS' to my Network Admin and to the internet?

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phrasal verbs:

follow along

To move or proceed in unison or in accord with an example: followed along with the song.

follow through

Sports. To carry a stroke to natural completion after hitting or releasing a ball or other object.
To carry an act, project, or intention to completion; pursue fully: followed through on her promise to reorganize the department.

follow up

To carry to completion; follow through on: followed up their recommendations with concrete proposals.
To increase the effectiveness or enhance the success of by further action: followed up her interview with an e-mail.

idioms:

as follows

As will be stated next. Used to introduce a specified enumeration, explanation, or command.

follow (one's) nose

To move straight ahead or in a direct path.
Informal. To be guided by instinct: had no formal training but became a success by following his nose.

follow suit

Games. To play a card of the same suit as the one led.
To do as another has done; follow an example.

[Middle English folowen, from Old English folgian.]

SYNONYMS follow, succeed, ensue, result, supervene. These verbs mean to come after something or someone. Follow, which has the widest application, can refer to coming after in time or order, as a consequence or result, or by the operation of logic: Night follows day. He disregarded doctor's orders, and a relapse followed. Because she decries violence, it follows that she won't carry a gun. To succeed is to come next after another, especially in planned order determined by considerations such as rank, inheritance, or election: The heir apparent succeeded to the throne. Ensue usually applies to what is a consequence or logical development: After the government was toppled, chaos ensued. Result implies that what follows is caused by what has preceded: Failure to file an income tax return can result in a fine. Supervene, in contrast, refers to something that is often unexpected and that has little relation to what has preceded: “A bad harvest supervened” (Charlotte Brontë).

USAGE NOTE As follows (not as follow) is the established form of the idiom regardless of whether the noun that precedes it is singular or plural: The regulations are as follows.

also follow up

verb

To keep (another) under surveillance by moving along behind: dog, shadow, track, trail. Informal bird-dog, tail. See precede/follow.
To act in conformity with: abide by, adhere, carry out, comply, conform, keep, mind, obey, observe. Idioms: toe thelinemark. See accept/reject, same/different/compare.
To take as a model or make conform to a model: copy, emulate, imitate, model (on, upon. or after), pattern (on, upon. or after). Idioms: follow in the footsteps of, follow suit, follow the example of. See same/different/compare.
To occur after in time: ensue, succeed, supervene. Idioms: followonuponthe heels of. See precede/follow, time.
To occur as a consequence: attend, ensue, result. See cause/effect, precede/follow.
To perceive and recognize the meaning of: accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, get, grasp, make out, read, see, sense, take, take in, understand. Informal savvy. Slang dig. Chiefly British twig. Scots ken. Idioms: gethavea handle on, get the picture. See understand/misunderstand.

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See

continue/stop/pause

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continue/stop/pause

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1. A coming together or touching, as of objects or surfaces.
2. The state or condition of touching or of immediate proximity: Litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid.
1. Connection or interaction; communication: still in contact with my former employer.
2. Visual observation: The pilot made contact with the ship.
3. Association; relationship: came into contact with new ideas at college.
A person who might be of use; a connection: The reporter met with her contact at the mayor's office.
1. A connection between two conductors that permits a flow of current or heat.
2. A part or device that makes or breaks such a connection.
Medicine. A person recently exposed to a contagious disease, usually through close association with an infected individual.
A contact lens.

v., -tact·ed, -tact·ing, -tacts. (kŏn'tăkt', kən-tăkt') v.tr.

To bring or put in contact.
To get in touch with; communicate with: “This past January I was contacted by a lawyer who said he needed my help” (Elizabeth Loftus).

v.intr.

To be in or come into contact.

adj.

Of, sustaining, or making contact.
Caused or transmitted by touching: a contact skin rash.

[Latin contāctus, from past participle of contingere, to touch, from past participle of contingere, to touch : com-, com- + tangere, to touch.]

contactual con·tac'tu·al (kən-tăk'chū-əl) adj.
contactually con·tac'tu·al·ly adv.

USAGE NOTE The verb contact is a classic example of a verb that was made from a noun and of a new usage that was initially frowned upon. The noun meaning “the state or condition of touching” was introduced in 1626 by Francis Bacon. Some 200 years later it spawned a verb meaning “to bring or place in contact.” This sense of the verb has lived an unremarkable life in technical contexts. It was only in the first quarter of the 20th century that contact came to be used to mean “to communicate with,” and soon afterward the controversy began. Contact was declared to be properly a noun, not a verb, and moreover to be vague when used as a verb. However, turning nouns into verbs is one of the most frequent ways in which new verbs enter English. Sometimes there is resistance to such verbs, but often, especially when a term seems free of association with the jargon of business or bureaucracy, acceptance comes more freely, as with curb, date, elbow, interview, panic, and park. Contact is but another instance of what linguists call functional shift from one part of speech to another. As for the vagueness of contact, this seems a virtue in an age in which forms of communication have proliferated. The sentence We will contact you when the part comes in allows for a variety of possible ways to communicate: by mail, telephone, computer, or fax. • Despite the lengthy history of disapproval of contact by language critics, the verb's usefulness and popularity appear to have worn down resistance to it. In 1969, only 34 percent of the Usage Panel accepted the use of contact as a verb, but in a recent survey 65 percent of the Panel accepted it in the sentence She immediately called an officer at the Naval Intelligence Service, who in turn contacted the FBI. See Usage Notes at impact.

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A weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.

intr.v., tweet·ed, tweet·ing, tweets.

To utter a weak chirping sound.

[Imitative.]

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a week chirping sound as of a small bird

The verb tweet has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: make a weak, chirping sound, as of a small bird
Synonym: twirp

Meaning #2: squeeze tightly between the fingers
Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, twinge, nip, twitch

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The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.
The essential substance or elements; essence: “We are such stuff/As dreams are made on” (Shakespeare).
Informal.
1. Unspecified material: Put that stuff over there.
2. Household or personal articles considered as a group.
3. Worthless objects.
Slang. Specific talk or actions: Don't give me that stuff about being tired.
Sports.
1. The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin, english, curve, or speed.
2. The spin, english, curve, or speed imparted to a ball: “where we could watch the stuff, mainly curves, that the pitchers were putting on the ball” (James Henry Gray).
Basketball. A dunk shot.
Special capability: The team really showed its stuff and won the championship.
Chiefly British. Woven material, especially woolens.
Slang. Money; cash.
Slang. A drug, especially one that is illegal or habit-forming.

v., stuffed, stuff·ing, stuffs. v.tr.

1. To pack (a container) tightly; cram: stuff a Christmas stocking.
2. To block (a passage); plug: stuff a crack with caulking.
3. Basketball. To block (a shot or an opponent who is shooting), especially before the ball leaves the shooter's hands.
1. To place forcefully into a container or space; thrust: stuffed laundry into the bag.
2. Sports. To shoot (a ball or puck) forcefully into the goal from close range.
3. Basketball. To dunk (the ball).
1. To fill with an appropriate stuffing: stuff a pillow.
2. To fill (an animal skin) to restore its natural form for mounting or display.
To cram with food.
To fill (the mind): His head is stuffed with silly notions.
To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
To apply a preservative and softening agent to (leather).

v.intr.

To overeat; gorge.

idioms:

stuff it Vulgar Slang.

Used as an intensive to express extreme anger, frustration, or disgust.

stuff (one's) face Slang.

To eat greedily.

[Middle English, from Old French estoffe, from estoffer, to equip, of Germanic origin.]

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A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group.
An equitable portion: do one's share of the work.
Any of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a corporation or company is divided.

v., shared, shar·ing, shares. v.tr.

To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion.
To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns.
To relate (a secret or experience, for example) to another or others.
To accord a share in (something) to another or others: shared her chocolate bar with a friend.

v.intr.

To have a share or part: shared in the profits.
To allow someone to use or enjoy something that one possesses: Being in daycare taught the child to share.
To use or enjoy something jointly or in turns: There is only one computer, so we will have to share.

idiom:

go shares

To be concerned or partake equally or jointly, as in a business venture.

[Middle English, from Old English scearu, division.]

shareable share'a·ble or shar'a·ble adj.
sharer shar'er n.
share² (shâr)
n.

A plowshare.

[Middle English, from Old English scēar.]

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Author	Danny Wallace
Language	English
Genre(s)	Humour
Publisher	Ebury Press
Media type	print ( paperback )

Join Me is the name given to a movement started in London by British writer Danny Wallace in 2002, and to a book by him which documents the movement's formation^[1].

Members of the movement are called Joinees. Collectively they have sometimes been referred to as the Karma Army.

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Movement

Origin

Inspired by a recently deceased relative who had once unsuccessfully attempted to build a pacifistic community on his farm in Switzerland, Wallace put a classified advertisement in Loot, a London classified advertising magazine, asking readers to "Join me. Send one passport-sized photograph to..." (followed by Wallace's address, later he created a Post Office Box Address for Joinees to send their photos to). The advertisement contained no other details nor any reason. Wallace claims he had no plans as to what he would do when people sent their photos. He originally hoped he could reach and improve upon the number of people who had joined his relative — three (of a desired one hundred). According to Wallace:

“

It was a piece of whimsy. A silly half-project. But thanks to a huge and diverse group of perfect strangers, it became something much bigger. I'm still trying to work out how.

”

"Good Fridays"

Somewhat to Wallace's surprise, the advertisement attracted a large number of people. As the group grew in number Wallace was put under pressure by its members to explain its purpose. Having (he claims) had no reason in mind when he first asked people to join, Wallace sought a purpose for his Joinees. Ultimately he presented the idea of performing random acts of kindness ("RAoK"s), preferably to a stranger, every Friday. Fridays thus came to be called Good Fridays. Over time it has become accepted that the day of the week is not important, and that random acts of kindness may be performed whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Growth

Subsequent publicity and word-of-mouth has brought his "collective" over 12,000 members.^[2] Join Me enjoyed a resurgence in 2005 thanks to Wallace's BBC television comedy series, How to Start Your Own Country, in which he founded the micronation of Lovely.

Gatherings

Joinees regularly meet at "Join MEets" (sic), which provide an environment for performing random acts of kindness with other people, and where the Joinees can perform acts of kindness which might be less well received if performed by a lone individual. The meetings are also an important social aspect of the collective.

On December 6, 2003, Joinees gathered for their biggest meeting up to then: Karmageddon. It began at London's Tottenham Court Road tube station. The several hundred participants then travelled along Oxford Street, distributing leaflets and gifts. At the end of the day they retired to a pub. Subsequently many Joinees have organised smaller meetings in their own areas, and several large, annual meets have become traditions; in December 2008 Joinees gathered for Karmageddon VI, at which over £1700 was raised for charity, and random acts of kindness were performed on and for central London Christmas shoppers.

A regular meet-up has taken place upstairs at The Cock public house, Great Portland Street, London, every Thursday evening for several years, and continues as of 2008.^[3]

Book

In 2003, Wallace wrote the book Join Me about how he started the movement. A quote on the cover of some editions is "It's not a cult; it's a collective" — because Wallace didn't want to associate Join Me with the negative connotations of the word cult. Nevertheless, as his book's sub-title is, "The true story of a man who started a cult by accident" it would seem he has grudgingly admitted that it has distinct similarities to one.

External links

Join Me — the official Join Me site
Join Me Wiki
An extract from the book, Join Me
Joinee Forum — a discussion forum for Joinees and prospective Joinees
Join me and be good on Friday — an article in Melbourne's The Age
Loot newspaper — where the original advertisement was placed

References

^ Wallace, Danny (2004). Join Me: The True Story of a Man Who Started a Cult by Accident. Ebury Press. ISBN 0-09-189582-0.
^ Join Me website
^ The Cock discussed on "Beer in the evening", a website dedicated to pubs

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A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee.
1. A holiday.
2. A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities.
Archaic. The act or an instance of vacating.

intr.v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.

To take or spend a vacation.

[Middle English vacacioun, from Old French vacation, from Latin vacātiō, vacātiōn-, freedom from occupation, from vacātus, past participle of vacāre, to be empty, at leisure.]

vacationer va·ca'tion·er or va·ca'tion·eer' (-shə-nîr') n.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - ferie, fratrædelse
v. intr. - feriere, holde ferie

Nederlands (Dutch)
vakantie, ontruiming, vakantie houden

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Univ) vacances, (Jur) vacations, (Jur) vacances judiciaires
v. intr. - (US) passer des vacances

Deutsch (German)
n. - Ferien, Urlaub, Räumung, Aufgabe
v. - Urlaub machen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διακοπή, αργία, διακοπές, κανονική άδεια (μισθωτού)

Italiano (Italian)
vacanza, vacanze, sgombero, evacuazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - férias (f pl), feriado (m), recesso (m)

Русский (Russian)
отпуск, каникулы, оставление чего-либо

Español (Spanish)
n. - vacaciones, licencia, suspensión, receso
v. intr. - ir de vacaciones, vacacionar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - semester, lämnande, frånträdande, avgång, upphävande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
假期, 休假, 度假

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 假期, 休假
v. intr. - 度假

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 정기 휴가, 사직 , 궐위 기간
v. intr. - 휴가를 보내다, 휴가를 얻다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 定期休暇, 休暇, 明け渡し, 空位期間
v. - 休暇をとる, 休暇を取る

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عطله, اخلاء, اجازة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חופשה, פגרה, פינוי‬
v. intr. - ‮יצא לחופשה, בילה ב-‬

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"Good Fridays"

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