IP Mask - your thoughts?

[IgiTang]

I was curious to know about IP Mask or if there is another type of program to use to remain unseen on the interwebs that is effective.

Its not for any reason but to protect myself from "the man".

Any suggestions?

[Street Pharmacist]

I will be reporting this to your man

[DownhillGoat]

I've been toying around with the idea of buying one of these:

https://pogoplug.com/safeplug
http://uncrate.com/stuff/safeplug/

[photon]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

I've been toying around with the idea of buying one of these:

https://pogoplug.com/safeplug
http://uncrate.com/stuff/safeplug/

That's just a hardware implementation of Tor?

https://www.torproject.org/

I guess the problem with Tor is by it's nature it's going to be a huge target for the NSA (one of the very men we're trying to avoid presumably). The NSA certainly has had some success with targeting Tor users. Though if one is using it to just read their gmail then the NSA probably doesn't care. Tor is pretty slow.

Other services (free or commercial, proxies or VPNs, etc), assume that the provider of the service is going to actually protect the user's anonymity (and aren't going to be subject to infiltration or direct order for access). If I'm concerned about security then trusting someone I don't know to protect me seems like the worst option, no matter how much they claim.

I guess it depends too on what the goal is. "Stop my ISP from casually seeing my emails and what sites I browse" is different than "Access sites that my government would put me in prison for".

[nik-]

stop tying to hack the Chinese IgiTang.

[photon]

There's also the OS Snowden used: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/29/56...ou-ll-ever-own

[To Be Quite Honest]

Safe plug isn't really a good name for the product. Sounds more like a geriatric tool.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by photon

The NSA certainly has had some success with targeting Tor users.

Can you elaborate on that? I assume that's at the level of people overthrowing governments or downloading the latest Avengers movie.

[photon]

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv...e_nsa_att.html
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-tar...vacy-services/

FBI too:
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/

Pretty huge efforts, probably not an issue if you're just trying to avoid your ISP ratting you out because you downloaded Weird Al's newest album.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by photon

Pretty huge efforts, probably not an issue if you're just trying to avoid your ISP ratting you out because you downloaded Weird Al's newest album.

Nah, I've got Rdio for that. Just privacy in browsing/tracking/purchases moresom/email more than anything.

Thanks for the links.

[Azure]

If you use Tor the right way it is still pretty tough for any government to track you.