January 17th, 2006
LiveCD Allows Anonymous Surfing
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
LiveCDs (bootable self-contained CDs) are great. I have some utility CDs that I use for image recovery like this, and I also love the LiveCDs that they produce for Linux installations, so that I can test compatibility without having to install software on the hard drive.
At ShmooCon last weekend, in addition to publishing info about the Wireless networking vulnerability described here, kaos.theory security research released Anonym.OS v1.0, a LiveCD that runs OpenBSD 3.8 and is intended to allow totally anonymous surfing of the Web.
There’s a lot of detailed information on this at Wired News.
We Say: The obvious target audience for this, besides people who are very concerned about security and privacy in places like Starbucks, etc., are people who might be worried about censorship (like in China, as we covered earlier). Unfortunately, in many of these countries, cyber cafes are the place to surf, and booting is often not an option. So this wouldn’t work. But the members of kaos.theory security research continue to work on this, and might have a USB key version soon. This is most likely just the beginning.
Brian says:
Something new for me. I think that it’s wonderful idea to create such a disc but I do not clearly understand what is this for?
I mean that while you are connected to the Internet you can go to a special site that provides anonymous surfing for you anytime. In this way you shouldn’t download any software, just point the site you want to surf anonymously and you are in. May be there are some more fields of usage of Live CD that I have missed?
As for me, I use SmartHide online anonymizer for anonymous surfing on the Internet. Of course there are a lot of other online anonymizers but SmartHide is free and easy to use for me.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Hide IP says:
me too use smarthide for anonymous surfing on the web!
online anonymizer for hide ip!
October 15th, 2007 at 12:45 am