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Hiding From Google 228

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @08:11PM from the cake-and-eat-it dept.

penguinrecorder writes "Google offers Web users a simple trade-off: Let the search giant track a substantial portion of your comings and goings around the Web, and it will offer you a free, superior online experience. Now independent security researcher Moxie Marlinspike is making Web users a counter-offer: take Google's giveaways and keep your privacy too. On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched a service he calls GoogleSharing, a plug-in for Firefox designed to give users access to Google's online offerings while cloaking their identity from the company's data collection tools. By hosting a proxy server with a collection of Google 'identities,' the privacy software will allow users temporarily to route their traffic through another computer that masks their identity by mixing their online actions with those of other users. The system is totally transparent, with no special 'alternative' websites to visit. Your normal work flow should be exactly the same." GoogleSharing only works for those services not requiring a Google login; for the latter, no proxying is done.

Comment Re:Trust no one (Score 2, Informative) 325

by javvee on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @03:49AM (#26966779) Attached to: Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy

That's the whole point, a tear will only affect locally. You, as an individual, simply don't add people you don't trust. If you don't have friends you trust today, you'll have to get them to start using the app and share your poems with them. In time the net will grow.

Comment Re:File sharing for friends (Score 1) 3

by javvee on Monday February 23, 2009 @03:50PM (#26960927) Attached to: Combining BitTorrent with darknets for P2P privacy

I've been testing the beta too of this f2f implementation. I like it! Trust only the ones who you trust. However, it's time for the rest of the world to get fiber to the home so tunneling actually starts working :) Now,for the sequential download so we can stream video from several friends friends through our friends!

Submission + - Combining BitTorrent with darknets for P2P privacy (washington.edu) 3

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CSEMike

on Monday February 23, 2009 @02:40PM

CSEMike writes: "Currently popular peer-to-peer networks suffer from a lack of privacy. For applications like BitTorrent or Gnutella, sharing a file means exposing your behavior to anyone interested in monitoring it. OneSwarm is a new file sharing application developed by researchers at the University of Washington that improves privacy in peer-to-peer networks. Instead of communicating directly, sharing in OneSwarm is friend-to-friend; senders and receivers exchange data using multiple intermediaries in an overlay mesh. OneSwarm is built on (and backwards compatible with) BitTorrent, but includes numerous extensions to improve privacy while providing good performance: point-to-point encryption using SSL, source-address rewriting, and multi-path and multi-source downloading. Clients and source are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows."

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