Often, the web browser that comes with an operating system is not set up in a secure default configuration. Not securing your web browser can lead quickly to a variety of computer problems caused by anything from spyware being installed without your knowledge to intruders taking control of your computer.
For that reason, it is very important to take control and to decide what kind of browser and plug-in to use. But here is the good news; Linux is already using Mozilla Firefox as a default browser. This workshop will describe how to use additional plug-ins to browse the Internet more secure but also anonymously on a Mandriva 2008 Spring client.
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devnull
16 years 18 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago
anonymous yes, secure? nope.
anonymous yes, secure? nope. Not a chance. Setup your own Tor server and sniff the traffic when you're the exit node and see every little password, conversation, website people put through that machine.
Tor is great for penetrating firewalls and for avoiding detection on the network of origin. It's great at disguising where you are from on various websites when they check their logs. But don't kid yourself into thinking it's truly secure. I would never type a password to anything through Tor. Read websites? Sure. But that's about it.
Tor was designed by the US military for secure browsing, since the EFF took it over, it should be used for it's intended purpose IMO, for aiding those in repressive regimes be able to blog or to educate themselves about matters they're home country will not allow. Otherwise you're choking the network un-necessarily. If you want secure access from your work place or want to hide where u're from to sites you go to for entertainment, setup a secure shell somewhere, get a Swedish vpn like relakks or something.