Home Proxy Server Setup

[thcnology]

http://www.linquist.net/geek/proxy

Anybody out there, done this before? I've got my linksys wireless G, putty, and freeproxy. I've been goin off of this above site to setup but I'm having trouble configuring. I think maybe I just need a GOOD FREE server IP?or maybe somebody that just knows what all this sh!t means. Im sort of swimmin hear in SSH, socks, ports, and tunnels.

 

[xtheghostx]

Why not just use an existing proxy? Also why setup a proxy at your home? Do you use firefox or ei? I can help you setup with some proxys that I use. Also you may want to look into using peer guardian :D

 

[thcnology]

Hey ghostman, I'm kind of going by some info that was given to me earlier by another friend, but I've sort of lost touch with him. I have IE and firefox, firefox for proxy surfing, IE for regular use. I have peerguardian as well. I'm concerned about some of the proxys out there because I've heard that the info going through may not be as secure as me might think, on the other hand I dont want to pay 20 bucks a month for something that I'm pretty sure can be safely hooked up for free. But I don't know sh!t about this stuff, and any help would be appreciated. I think I have most pieces of the puzzle, I just need help putting it together? What do you suggest?

 

[xtheghostx]

Exactly, not all proxies are good especially just some random one picked from a list. People can sniff your user and pass through a proxy also and have your login for anything that you logged in through the proxy.


I visit a certain forum that posts checked proxies and even has some socks5 proxys that people have setup for others to use. Most of the servers I use are for "illegal" uploading so they are very secure, if you want dude I could give you some socks5 proxies to use.

 

[LTG]

What about using tor? You can even use it on a USB stick drive :)

 

[Slick]

You are much safer setting up your own proxy for the security reasons already mentioned though if you do decide to use a public one make sure whichever you do use has SSL tunnel or TLS tunnel as this will give you some protection against people trying to steal your information.

Some proxy servers sell to or are even set up by people intent on stealing personal information so as always caveat emptor.

 

[kill-9]

What about using tor? You can even use it on a USB stick drive :)

Listen to this guy ^^^^^^



Download the Tor package there ^^^. Just basically click click click, it does it all for you.

 

[ProGroWannabe]

Logic told me a while back that TOR was logged, so I dropped it.

 

[kill-9]

That depends whether or not the server administrator wants to log it or not. I wouldn't rely on tor for national secrets, but marijuana is ok. Packets travel all over the world on tor.

On tor only the CIA/NSA would have jurisdiction in any other country. Would the NSA or CIA care about your 50 plants? And I don't think the CIA would compromise any server logging they are doing, just to please the guys at the DEA.

 

[ProGroWannabe]

Hehe probably not kill-9. Good point. He (Logic) had told me to stop using it, so I just use Privoxy now. I don't really care if someone picks up what I'm doing en route, as long as my ISP doesn't know who's doing the sending and receiving of said packets.

 

[kill-9]

You are not achieving your goal. You're just filtering web ads and blocking cookies, kinda of useless. You need to use privoxy in conjunction with Tor to achieve your desired results. Of course Tor/Privoxy= Vidalia Package. Your IP or DNS requests are not hidden from your ISP by just using privoxy stand-alone.

 

[herby]

Hehe probably not kill-9. Good point. He (Logic) had told me to stop using it, so I just use Privoxy now. I don't really care if someone picks up what I'm doing en route, as long as my ISP doesn't know who's doing the sending and receiving of said packets.

This is exactly what I would like to accomplish as well. Unfortunately I understand nothing about this stuff.

 

[ProGroWannabe]

kill-9.....all of the proxy testing sites that I've used to check my IP returns a different IP than what I have, so it IS changing the info on the way out.

 

[kill-9]

kill-9.....all of the proxy testing sites that I've used to check my IP returns a different IP than what I have, so it IS changing the info on the way out.

The only people who's gonna see it "differently" are administrators like logic. He's gonna think you're coming from Russia as an example. Of course he can analyze traffic but that's a whole 'nother ballgame.

If your goal is to hide yourself from the ENDPOINT, THCFarmer for example, then you what you are doing is decent.

It's kinda like changing the plates on your car. Just because you did that, doesn't mean the pigs can't figure out with your credit card, where you filled up your gas at, and can figure out by which gas stations, you've been to.

But just because you changed your California plates to Maryland plates, as Logic sees it, doesn't mean your ISP doesn't know what you're doing.

 

[ProGroWannabe]

I was a firm believer in TOR till Logic told me it was logged. His words if I remember them correctly were "stop using TOR now!"

 

[kill-9]

Tor has it's issues. There was a case where government agency sent rogue packets into the TOR network and was able to trace. This cause a huge upset in the computer security community and forced a rewrite the part of TOR that caused this. I believe Doctorate Students from a nerdy Computer respect University found the problem and gave the fix.

Security is not 100%, but if the public can audit and give comments to TOR, it gets securer and securer.

But let's just say this, TOR can be used for good and evil. If kiddy porn faggots use it, then it's fairly decent.

Logic NEEDS to be paranoid, and understandably so, so that's why he paid for that service that ENCRYPTS EVERYTHING. If I were logic, hell yeah I would not recommend using TOR.

 

[ProGroWannabe]

I hear ya. I also read that about the packets being traceable. I think TOR is a good idea, but like anything else, if THE MAN wants to track it, their gonna. The reason that I chose to just use Privoxy was just to spoof my ISP. Since they don't have the resources to track every single user on their server then analyze all that data, I figured they were the easier ones to get by.

Have you read up on all the functionality of Privoxy? Here's a link.....

http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PROXYMORON

 

[kill-9]

I hear ya. I also read that about the packets being traceable. I think TOR is a good idea, but like anything else, if THE MAN wants to track it, their gonna. The reason that I chose to just use Privoxy was just to spoof my ISP. Since they don't have the resources to track every single user on their server then analyze all that data, I figured they were the easier ones to get by.

Have you read up on all the functionality of Privoxy? Here's a link.....

http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PROXYMORON

Instead of the White man Holding me down:

It's a black man holding me down!

http://i41.invalid.com/otj2mo.jpg

I just suggest not to post commercial grows. They just don't have the resources like you said, to track everybody down. Not when a network security guy is gonna be charging 100+ per hour and of course act stupid and drag it out so he can have more billable hours.

I mean seriously, Who's Billy Bob Detective from Tennessee gonna contact when he sees a grow online? Especially when pigs are notorious for wanting to make arrests themselves so they can get an "attaboy", or just looking for a career move to get a higher rank and pay.

But if you're a big time grower.......even a lil credit is gonna be good for Billy Bob.

 

[ProGroWannabe]

Lol kill-9!! Funny shit there, man.

And yeah, that's my whole theory behind not worrying if the info that I post is picked up on the net. I just don't want the ISP to know who it's coming from/going to.

 

[hubcap]

when we say ISP....
do 'they' actually have people watching traffic all day or a specific list with webpages...?
this totally boggles my mind in a supposed free nation


-hubcap-