15 votes Vote

Provide an anonymising proxy

Geoff C , 15.10.2010, 18:00
Response from the site administrator
aaisp, 21.04.2015
We do participate in TOR.
Idea status: completed

Comments

Geoff C, 01.12.2011, 11:08
Having just revisited this idea I realized I should have been a bit clearer. What I'm suggesting is that AA set up an internet proxy as described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

The proxy should not be operational by default but should allow AA users to select the proxy from their web-browsers if they want it.

I realize that the weakness here is that we trust AA but we have to do that anyway.

Oh .. and I can't believe that "ponies" got more votes than this :) I mean ... what's a pony got that an anonymising proxy hasn't?
aaisp, 01.12.2011, 11:15
Interesting idea, however, can you not just use TOR yourself?
If we ran a proxy, then we may have to keep logs anyway, which will defeat the point.
If we ran a TOR relay, then I'm unsure if we'd still need to keep logs etc...
Geoff C, 01.12.2011, 12:53
Well yes :) I run a server at home so I could conceivably put the proxy on that and I will look into it when I've got a bit of time. However, not everyone will have a server. It is possible to do it directly from a single PC by routing traffic to a local port and I have experimented with this in the past but it's a PITA to switch on and off ... I suppose I could script it but it'll need root priveliges ... doh! it just got to be a pain again.

Basically it AA provided the proxy it would just make things a lot easier for users who want to use it.

I'm not sure I understand the comment about logging, I'm guessing that some misbegotten law forces you to log every (TCP/UDP?) transaction which does reduce anonymity but I didn't know you have to do this.
Jason McGuiness, 28.02.2017, 11:11
You note: "We do participate in TOR." - can you point me to a wiki page regarding the config I need to do, or let me know what I need to do to make use of this? Thanks.

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