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PSI is a very popular Jabber-client which supposedly supports SOCKS-compatible proxies in the upcoming version. This support is, sadly, utterly broken from a security point of view.
What’s Jabber, anyway?
Jabber is a protocol for user-to-user messages which to the end-user works just like MSN, ICQ and similar systems. The difference is that Jabber is a open [...]

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There is a nice bundle of the Tor network security tool, Privox and the Opera browser available called OperaTor. It includes a non-open-source .exe file, which is my eyes makes it not worth trusting, but you don’t need to: There’s also a Build-Your-Own version available which let’s you make your own custom “OperaTor” variant.
You can [...]

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Articles with headlines such as “Here is how to expose Tor-users” appear regularly in the mainstream press. Most of these articles have nothing to do with Tor itself and everything to do with users who by mistake allow their software to send personal information over the anonymous connection or allow their software to connect to [...]

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A paper technical paper released in February by UColorado/Boulder outlines how to attack Tor using a few evil servers. A spokesperson for the Tor-project was quick to respond, saying that they are aware of the problem and that nothing indicates that such an attack has been launched “in the wild” yet.Yesterday “respectable” publication ZDNet repored [...]

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DNS censorship is a form of sensorship where DNS servers are (mis)configured to give the wrong answer to given domains. You want to go to a website, the name (www.something.tld) is translated by your ISP’s DNS servers into a IP, and your browser goes to that IP. But DNS servers do not need to tell [...]

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