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| Torpark - Anonymous, Portable Browser Released
Hacktivismo, an international group of computer security experts and human rights workers, just released Torpark, an anonymous, fully portable Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox. Torpark comes pre-configured, requires no installation, can run off a USB memory stick, and leaves no tracks behind in the browser or computer. Torpark is a highly modified variant of Portable Firefox, that uses the TOR (The Onion Router) network to anonymize the connection between the user and the website that is being visited.
Torpark is being released under the GNU General Public License |
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Psicop
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1 edit | Good stuff! 
Here's the spot:
»torpark.nfshost.com/ |
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EGeezer
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Verify the checksum -
A note on downloading - The MD5 checksum did not match either of the site's numnbers on the evilshare download I pulled. The Freehaven file did match. With this in mind, I concur with the site's recommendation to verify the MD5 checksum before executing or opening any downloaded files.
Maybe it was just an administrative mistake or an updated legit file, maybe not. I assume any mismatches are suspicious.
EDIT - a look at the checksums on the reference page shows two MD5 values among all the mirrors. The download mirror files all match one or the other hashes, but the download sites and hashes are mixed up on the reference page.
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visormiser
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Alexandria, VA | reply to SUMware
Re: Torpark - Anonymous, Portable Browser Released
tried it in vmware, but could not get it to work at all. it never established a connection. anyone get this thing actually working on a Windows box? (i even turned off all the firewalls on the machine). |
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Psicop
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Hmm...Quicksharing and RARHost don't match either.
Time to send an e-mail to the developers. |
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dbarber
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I got it "sort of" working on my "workstation" box running W2K. It took a while to connect running from a fast hard drive, and forever to connect from a U3 enabled thumb drive. With TOR disabled, it ran OK. With TOR enabled, it hung and crashed VSMON.EXE from ZAF. With TOR enabled, when it didn't crash, throughput was horrible. I got less than 10% of available bandwidth according to speakeasy.net.
I was looking for something to carry on my U3 drive, but I guess I'll have to keep looking. 
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EGeezer
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EDIT - removed a DEV/NULL link now invalid.
If running from a USB, be sure to extra time to establish a circuit. Mine timed out every time on the USB, had to click "keep waiting".
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izvie
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Centreville, VA | reply to SUMware
I have been using Torpark for about two weeks, but I do not recall where I downloaded it from. It works great on my XP Home box on a Sandisk 256 stick. It *does* take a couple of minutes to load though. |
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TinfiolHatEgeezer
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Kinda hiccupy on startup, even runnning from the HDD - stalled once for me on retrieving IP address to the TOR button.
Hmm, a bunch of dark gray Crown Victorias with spotlights on them outside. Wow, look at all the suits...  |
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EGeezer
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Country! | reply to izvie
Interesting - when I close the browser and run firefox.exe from the app/Torpark/firefox folder, it loads all my usual preferences, extensions, search engines etc.
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izvie
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Centreville, VA | Question: Do you have to use Firefox with TorPark, or can you get TorPark running and then use IE? |
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EGeezer
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Country! | It's a Tor/FF package as far as I can tell - You might try experimenting to see if that would work...
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izvie
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Centreville, VA | Yep, I'll have to check my ip in IE before and after turning on TorPark... |
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sork12
@uconn.edu | reply to SUMware
This has been out for a while. A good use for it other than porn is to get around header sniffing routers that block certain packets. |
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javaMan
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1 edit | reply to dbarber
said by dbarber :. . I was looking for something to carry on my U3 drive, but I guess I'll have to keep looking. What's wrong with Portable Firefox that this browser is supposedly based on?
»software.u3.com/Product_Details.···ng=en-US
»portableapps.com/apps/internet/f···portable
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said by SUMware :Hacktivismo, an international group of computer security experts and human rights workers... And, as usual, for those residing in locked-down lands, a note of caution. Even if an anonymizer works effectively to hide the packet trails to/from the end website, accessing an anonymizer's functional site(s) can be observed externally and traced back to the user's specific computer (assuming the active cooperation of co-opted ISPs - normal, in those lands). Even Internet cafes are required to verify and preserve records of all users' personal identification on specific computers at specific times. And in such lands, using an anonymizer is generally considered worse than simply surfing to prohibited places, since the powers-that-be argue it shows deliberate action to evade... in some places, that is classed as treasonable. Please tread cautiously.
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OZO
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Crash |
Downloaded with MD5: 323cc9bf99d6830ec5ad693737eab518
SandboxIE: ver. 2.60
What is the newadvsplash.dll ?
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La Luna
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This is interesting, but it seems to be a dud that doesn't work properly and/or has other possible issues.
I think I'll pass.  |
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EGeezer
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Apparently John T. Haller is involved in writing both. Given his record with portable FF, I suspect that feedback on the product would be taken seriously to improve it.
My first try was when I unpacked it directly to my USB - mistake - didn't work. When I unpacked and copied the folder to USB, worked OK except for the slow circuit build and timeouts requiring a "wait".
Personally, the TOR thing serves me little purpose. I can't see using it on any regular basis, but I believe the package and authors are legitimate. My only concern would be those who expect Tor to provide total security from being identified and downloading a malware-hacked distribution. That's why I always check the MD5 against the documented hash value when getting open source stuff.
It *was* fun playing with it - it even worked on a WIN98SE machine of mine, although quite slowly.
May 8 dated Newsforge article;
»business.newsforge.com/article.p···/1657204
Edit - here's newadvsplash.dll info, seems to be an open source splash screen and initialization plugin;
»nsis.sourceforge.net/NewAdvSplash_plug-in
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George Kidd
join:2001-08-09
Vancouver, BC
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Well folks.... Most of the stuff on NFSHOST seems to have problems. F-Prot claims that some of the files contain the W32/Zlob.NS virus. Looks to me like this stuff has been badly infected, hence all these problems with it.    |
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