Tor Tor (short for The onion router) is a system intended to enable online anonymity

Website https://www.torproject.org
Blog https://www.torproject.org/blog
Status on 03/21/2012 Available

Tor: Overview

Inception

Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications. Today, it is used every day for a wide variety of purposes by normal people, the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many others.

Overview

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy...

openDNS OpenDNS is a Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service.

Website http://opendns.com
Blog http://twitter.com/opendns
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DNS

OpenDNS offers DNS resolution as an alternative to using Internet service providers' DNS servers. There are OpenDNS servers in strategic locations, and they also employ a large cache of the domain names. OpenDNS has adopted and supports DNSCurve. OpenDNS provides the following recursive nameserver addresses for public use, mapped to the nearest operational server location by anycast routing:
  • 208.67.222.222 (resolver1.opendns.com)
  • 208.67.220.220 (resolver2.opendns.com)
  • 208.67.222.220 
  • 208.67.220.222 
IPv6 addresses (experimental)
  • 2620:0:ccc::2
  • 2620:0:ccd::2
Other features include a phishing filter, domain blocking and typo correction (for example, typing "example.og" instead of "example.org"). OpenDNS maintains a list...

proxy.org Use a proxy and learn how to use it

Website http://proxy.org
Blog http://
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Proxy.org is the pragmatic Web surfer's guide to online privacy and anonymous web surfing. We give you the information and tools you need to be confident and in command of your Web surfing experience. Here you'll find information on the latest privacy issues facing Web consumers and links to relevant privacy technology. Proxy.org has the most comprehensive list of working proxies in the most convenient form.

Freegate VPN-based service

Website http://www.dit-inc.us/freegate
Blog http://
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Freegate is an anti-censorship software for secure and fast Internet access. It was developed and maintained by Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT), a pioneer in censorship-circumvention operation.
  • users access web sites overseas as fast as their local ones;
  • requires no installation or change in system setting;
  • a single executable file on a Windows platform.
Freegate works by tapping into an anti-censorship backbone, DynaWeb, DIT's P2P-like proxy network system. Freegate's anti-censorship capability is further enhanced by a new, unique encryption and compression algorithm in the versions of 6.33 and above.

Creation and funding

Freegate was created by Falun Gong practitioners and has been financed by...

Psyphon open-source web proxy

Website http://psyphon.com
Blog http://blog.psyphon.com
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Psiphon inc  is a privately held Canadian corporation headquartered in Ottawa.  We maintain research and development facilities at the University of Toronto, and in Metropolitan Toronto. Our mission is to develop cutting-edge technologies for delivering multimedia Internet content  in environments where that content is filtered or blocked. Our clients include  the British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, Radio Farda, and numerous international and local online journals and newspapers. We also work with civil society and NGOs battling against extralegal filtering and censorship of content ranging from maternal health care to human rights and environmental information. We believe...