Hacktivismo Releases Privacy Browser
Hacktivismo (which is a funky name for a bunch of computer security experts and human rights workers) has released Torpark. It’s a browser built on the Mozilla code base and is created for maximum privacy. They even managed to figure out how to run it form off a flash drive, convenient for that spontaneous browsing on public computers. From the press release:
When a user logs onto the Internet, a unique IP address is assigned to manage the computer’s identity. Each website the user visits can see and log the user’s IP address. Hostile governments and data thieves can easily monitor this interaction to correlate activity and pinpoint a user’s identity.
Torpark causes the IP address seen by the website to change every few minutes to frustrate eavesdropping and mask the requesting source. For example, a user could be surfing the Internet from a home computer in Ghana, and it might appear to websites that the user was coming from a university computer in Germany or any other country with servers in the TOR network.
So remember Geeks, next time your writing diatribes from China… Torpark it? Protect with Torpark? Got Torpark? Torpark ahoy? (ugh… great idea, sucky name - definately doesn’t roll off the tongue… Then again Hacktivismo reads better than it sounds too.)
