Anonymous connection using chain of proxy

Yesterday when I did my research I came across this interesting article (for me personally).

It was pretty old article & I don't know if you guys already knew this method, but basically this method suggest us to use proxy chains (proxy -> proxy-> proxy -> .... -> target) and makes the us the surfer very hard to detect, which is pretty cool. =)

http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/08/anonymous-connections-over-the-internet-using-socks-chains-proxy-proxies/

surf the internet as though you were in China!

I came across this interesting tool while doing research for the assignment

http://www.chinachannel.hk/

( I couldn't get this to work, apparently it only works on Firefox pre 3.5 )

update: I found a proxy server in China that works. So far myspace works except for pictures, videos and music, Facebook doesn't work, google shows up in Chinese, so it seems like this works.

China proxy server: 211.69.26.169:3128

( list of sites blocked in China )

( list of proxies in different countries )

Internet Enemies

Reporters without borders lists their 'internet enemies' as:

Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

These generally have heavy filtering or restrict access to the internet by various means.

While the above may not come as a surprise, there is also a 'countries under surveillance' list:

Australia, Bahrein, Belarus, Eritrea, Malaysia, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

The standout in this list may be Australia, although I freely admit bias to this (I guess it is often made out to be the USA of the south). Australia is on this list due to filtering systems put in place to try to combat child sex abuse/pornography (http://en.rsf.org/australia-open-letter-to-australia-s-prime-18-12-2009,35379.html). Additionally, internet in public schools in Australia is heavily filtered (at least the school I volunteered at), and did not even allow access to e-mail clients.

Belarus recently introduced a decree where internet providers in the country will have to keep a record of their client's internet use for a year (and hand it over to the government on request), also they have to block access to sites within 24 hours if requested (http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Calls_Belarusian_Internet_Decree_A_Step_In_Wrong_Direction/1948755.html).

Facebook Privacy Issue

In case someone didn't know, there's OpenBook website http://youropenbook.org/ which searches given keywords in status updates from users' profiles on Facebook. So check your privacy settings!


Here's more information about it: http://youropenbook.org/about.html

And an article on ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/site-exposes-embarrassing-facebook-updates/story?id=10669091

"Online Infringement" Bill

Senator Patrick Leahy yesterday introduced the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (COICA). This flawed bill would allow the Attorney General and the Department of Justice to break the Internet one domain at a time — by requiring domain registrars/registries, ISPs, DNS providers, and others to block Internet users from reaching certain websites. The bill would also create two Internet blacklists...

Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in "Online Infringement" Bill

Email and Mail, 81:1

14.4 trillion emails vs 177 billion postal letters and packages. That's the 2009 email vs snail mail score in the United States. A staggering 81 to 1 proportion. The bad: 81% of email is spam vs 47% of snail mail."

At least we dont have 81% of our snail mail as junk, email spam being more green than junk mail.

via Gizmodo

British telecoms on Net Neutrality

Net neutrality is one of those hot-button topics du jour, and there is great discussion over the practicalities and legalities of it. It has been the conversation piece for many a debate and flame war, with valid points on each side. Nice, then, to see that the two largest ISPs in Great Britain would cheerfully abandon the idea without a second thought. Both BT and TalkTalk are more than willing to agree to any such offer if one is willing to put some cash up.

I'm trying to think of a way that such a deal doesn't end up screwing cash-strapped Internet startups, and I really can't. On the other hand, if you're trying to provide some sort of exclusive data service and have money to (in a long series of separate deals!) pay off every broadband company known to Man, it might be a good idea.