Anonymous Servers - Please help a journalist in a hostile country

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Please help a journalist in a hostile country

anonymous@remailer.hastio.org

2005-12-31, 2:46 am

I am a journalist currently living in a not so free (nor
friendly, for the matter) country. I rely on PGP and anonymous
remailers (thanks guys!) for my daily communications. When I
browse the Web I use TOR. Sometimes, however, using TOR isn't an
option. In such circumstances I connect to websites that offer a
SSL connection so that the content of the material I read is
encrypted. I have noticed, however, that some websites pass
arguments in the URL address that could reveal what I am
accessing. Is that information encrypted as well? Would TOR make
a difference in similar cases? If so, should I refrain from
browsing the Internet when TOR isn't available?

Thanks in advance.

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2005-12-31, 2:46 am

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anonymous@remailer.hastio.org a écrit :
> I am a journalist currently living in a not so free (nor
> friendly, for the matter) country. I rely on PGP and anonymous
> remailers (thanks guys!) for my daily communications. When I
> browse the Web I use TOR. Sometimes, however, using TOR isn't an
> option. In such circumstances I connect to websites that offer a
> SSL connection so that the content of the material I read is
> encrypted. I have noticed, however, that some websites pass
> arguments in the URL address that could reveal what I am
> accessing. Is that information encrypted as well? Would TOR make
> a difference in similar cases? If so, should I refrain from
> browsing the Internet when TOR isn't available?

Concerning Tor, the complete HTTP communication is done encrypted. The URL
request is part of the HTTP protocol. One thing you might want to keep an eye on
is the way host names are resolved to IP addresses. By using a local proxy
software such as Privoxy you can solve this problem. I recommend reading the Tor
FAQ about this problem [1].

When connecting to the Web using SSL encrypted HTTP, my guess is that the URL
request is encrypted, but the TCP connexion is traceable and the host name
resolution will be done normally and non-encrypted. Using Tor for HTTP is
roughly analog to using remailers for email; this method is more similar to
using PGP encryption over standard email.

I'm sorry if I am not very clear. It's getting very late but I still want to
write this now because I won't access Usenet for the few next days.

[1] http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/The...FAQ#SOCKSAndDNS

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Thrasher Remailer

2005-12-31, 7:46 am

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, <anonymous@remailer.hastio.org> wrote:

> Sometimes, however, using TOR isn't an option.

What is the reason to not use TOR? If you don't use it because the
connections over TOR are slow sometimes, you should remember that most, if
not all, anonymity services trade speed for privacy/security. I would
strongly recommend to keep on using TOR for all your connections, even if
it is slow!

An alternative to TOR is JAP: http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html .

JAP uses strong (RSA 1024 Bit and AES 128 Bit) encryption between your PC
and the JAP routers in Germany. Just like TOR, JAP will provide a secure
tunnel for your connections.

Good luck.

Baldur

2005-12-31, 5:47 pm

In article <LWWFSUJD38717.2233680556@anonymous.poster>
anonymous@remailer.hastio.org wrote:
>
> I am a journalist currently living in a not so free (nor
> friendly, for the matter) country.

Yah, I'm in the USA, too. :-(

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