Privacy On A Stick
September 19, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Puter Stuff
The good folks at Hacktivismo have unleashed Torpark - a portable web browser based upon everyones favorite Mozilla Firefox, the news is fresh out via PRWeb. This portable browser can be run from a USB stick thus making it more convenient and safer when using another persons computer ( friends or public ) to access websites as it leaves no information on the host computer. I haven’t tried Torpark out yet, but the original portable browser allowed you to keep your bookmarks and saved passwords with you.
Additionally Torpark offers a layer of anonymity via what is known as The Onion Router (TOR). A secure connection between you and TOR are made, at that point you are hopefully using a secure connection to an online service as normal, such as when logging into your gmail account or financial institution.
You can read more press releases from the Cult of the Dead Cow via their cDc news feed at PRWeb. I’ve also spotted this press release on Yahoo! News and via Google News.
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Yes, that’s all very well, but have you actually tried to use it? As someone new to Tor I am shocked that it is, literally, so slow as to be *unusable*. Use it to read your Gmail? Are you joking? Carrier pigeon would be faster.
TorPark may be a great bit of coding but as a product it has less than zero chance of being adopted by anyone but the desperate and/or stupid. A total waste of time, resources and intelligence. Did no-one actually test this before it was released?
No as I stated in the post I haven’t had a chance to try it. Perhaps as more people become interested and aware of TOR the quality of such services will improve?