Monthly Archives: December 2004

Christmas Ramblings

Yeah, yeah, yeah Merry Christmas; now where’s my present? I hate unneccicarilly long URIs. Almost every site I visit has some sort of extra paths or uses filename extensions. I even hate having the date in my permalinks, but I … Continue reading

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More on Tor

I like how Tor’s SOCKS 5 proxy can be set in Mac OS X’s proxy preferences. Safari even works with Tor’s anonymous host system, letting me access URLs like http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/. However, Firefox and other Mozilla browsers do not seem to … Continue reading

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Tor is not like Freenet

Tor is not like Freenet. Tor is a multi-hop anonymous SOCKS proxy system. Freenet is a multi-hop anonymous hash based distributed data storage and retrieval system. I guess both are multi-hop anonymous systems, but that doesn’t make them competing projects … Continue reading

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