Torpark

Surfing the net anonymously is almost impossible. You can use a number of software packages to hide your tracks, but they don't work very well. Enter Torpark, a customized version of the Firefox browser, that was built by Hacktivismo and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Torpark encrypts internet traffic from the browser to the Tor network, then anonymise the traffic by routing it through various routers on the Tor network -- regularly changing the IP address that the traffic appears to be coming from.

For most users, Torpark is overkill -- you don't really need it because you've got nothing to hide. If you're living in a country where your online activities are tracked however, you have a lot to worry about. The government may lock you away for reading up on topics it considers off limits. If you've got nothing to hide, but you're just paranoid and want to use it anyway, you should note that some sites will not react nicely to having you IP address suddenly change during a session. If you're checking your email for instance and your IP address changes, the site may think you're not the same person anymore and ask you to login again.

Lastly, Torpark has been designed to be small. So small that it can easily be carried around on an USB stick, to give you anonymous surfing wherever you go, on whatever machine you use.

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