Surf the web anonymously

Before I tell you how, let me tell you about the organization that is funding this application that lets you surf the web anonymously. They are called "Electonic Frontier Foundation" or EFF, for short. Who are they? Here is their mission and who they are, from the horses mouth so to speak. If America's founding fathers had anticipated the digital frontier, there would be a clause in the Constitution protecting your rights online, as well. Instead, a modern group of freedom fighters was necessary to extend the original vision into the digital world. That's where the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes in. Just as Patriots fought for liberty and freedom, we fight measures that threaten basic human rights. Only the dominion we defend is the vast wealth of digital information, innovation, and technology that resides online. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a group of passionate people, lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries, working in the trenches, battling to protect your rights and the rights of web surfers everywhere. The dedicated people of EFF challenge legislation that threatens to put a price on what is invaluable; to control what must remain boundless. Electronic Frontier Foundation: Because being able to share ideas and information is the reason the Web was created in the first place!* So if you like using your IPod to play your favorite music or watching your favorite movie that you have "Tivo'd" this group is fighting for your rights to use these devices! O.K. let get back to the title of this post "surf the web anonymously." How can you do this and why would you want to do this? Everything you do on the web can be tracked. All your emails, IRC chats, downloads and sites you visit can be seen and read by anyone on the web with the righequipmentnt and software. So if you don't want anyone to know that you are checking out company "XYZ" while your at work working for the competitor "ABC" company, this program is for you. Thanks to EFF you can do this anonymously. With the program called "Tor" every where you go on the web your IP address and other tracking information will not be shared with the website you visit. Currently, many websites alter the information you see depending on what country you come from, your Internet provider, or whether you've previously visited the site. This tracking information is also stored by many websites and can be used to profile users, as well as made available to the government or private parties in litigation. More worrisome, the ability to track Internet users can create physical risks for those such as human rights workers and domestic violence victims. Tor protects against this sort of privacy invasion, called "traffic analysis," by obscuring the route your communications take through the Internet.** You can find "Tor" here, if this sounds like a program for you. Oh, did I mention that it is a FREE program. If you would like to find out more about the EFF and what other rights and products they are fighting save look here. *quote from this page at eff.org **this quote from the June 03, 2005 article at eff.org titled "Tor Named One of the Year's Best Products"