Now, you can do something for these users that try to keep their privacy and express freely. Here is an initiative of Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org):

Tor’s design relies on a robust network of “volunteer computers” (a.k.a. relays) to pass messages back and forth. This means that the speed and quality of a Tor users’ browsing experience relies extensively on the number of volunteer computers there are to pass messages along. This is where volunteers can make a difference — setting up additional relays improves access for dissident Iranians and other users of the Tor network. The more people who help out, the better and more quickly the network runs. If you’re interested in helping out, find and follow instructions for configuring a Tor relay on the Tor website.

Those looking to help fight censorship should also consider providing a Tor bridge. Bridges come into play when an ISP decides to try blocking users’ access to the Tor network. (For now, there seems to only be anecdotal evidence of Iran attempting to block the use of Tor. However, Iran has recntly been practicing reactive and centralized blocking, which makes any effective block of Tor far more likely.) The Tor bridge configuration differs from a relay in that your computer does not appear in the public Tor network. Instead, users looking for access to the Internet through Tor can receive your Tor routing information through more private channels, then configure their Tor client to transmit requests through your computer. By not appearing in the public Tor network, your Tor routing information is less likely to end up on an ISP filter and can provide help for a longer period of time — but recognize that the network needs both relays and bridges

Whatever you think of Iranian political situation, you probably agree that Iranian citizens should be allowed to communicate freely. Now, you can do something to help them!

[Help Protesters in Iran: Run a Tor Bridge or a Tor Relay]

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The team that administrate Tor, the well know anonymity network, has published some stats that show an increased activity by the Iranian users in the days after the contested election.

The first graph shows the number of requests from new Tor clients coming from Iranian IP addresses. You can see an increase from an average of about 150+ per day to almost 1000 per day.

The second graph estimates of the total number of Tor users in Iran.

[Via Measuring Tor and Iran]

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Version 1.1 does not come with major UI changes. According to Privacy-Gateway team, new and better proxies are available and some bugs were fixed. Previous version is still supported but it is recommended to upgrade to version 1.1.

I have also upgraded NotMyIP on my computer and I was a little bit disappointed when during uninstalling NotMyIP 1.0, the setup asked me to restart the computer. I have asked Privacy-Gateway why is this necessary and here is their answer:

The technology we use to run NotMyIP, as well as Anonymity Gateway, is able to automatically configure all browsers to use a certain proxy. For Internet Explorer this is done easily, but for other browsers it is not trivial.

By using our products, one does not have to install add-ons or to manually configure browsers like Firefox, Opera or Safari. Just start NotMyIP and the IP address is changed/hidden.

When uninstalling the product, the restart operation is necesarry in order to make sure that all browsers are de-configured correctly and the user is able to continue browsing without problems.

Best Regards,
Privacy-Gateway.com Team

[Via Privacy-Gateway Blog]

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The solution to unblock Hulu is simple: change your IP address to a US one. It’s a little bit more than that as you need enough coonection speed to be able to watch the shows decently.

I am going to list several solutions that are able to unblock Hulu, both free and paid. You have try several of them in order to find the one that works best for you. 

Free Hotspot Shield alternatives

• Ultrasurf – well-know free hide IP solution. A new version has beed released several days ago. The proxies are fresh and can be used to unblock Hulu.
• AceVPN - invite-only free VPN service. The service is new and provides good speed.
• NotMyIP – new hide IP tool. The speed of the proxies is decent.
• GPass - can be used to access Hulu or any other site that is restricted outside the US.
• Alonweb – free VPN that can be used as Hotspot Shield alternative

Subscription-based Hotspot Shield alternatives

• IP Hider – one of my favorite hide IP tools. I have just tested it and it works well to unblock Hulu.
• Hide-My-IP 2009 – some proxies seem to be blocked by Hulu, but there are several that work.
• Anonymity Gateway – simple and effective solution to unblock Hulu.
• Freedur – new and very nice tool to get a US IP address.
• StrongVPN – well know VPN service with a lot of US IP addresses available.

Do you know other Hotspot Shield alternatives?

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For several hours we have tried to find a solution (deleting cookies, connect/disconnect, etc.) with no success. The conclusion was that Hulu has blocked (again) the IPs or the range of IPs used by Hotspot Shield. If this is true, Hotspot Shield will not be able to unblock Hulu until it will change the IPs. Unfortunately, this will no represent a permanent solution: Hulu will soon block the new IPs, Hotspot Shield will change them again, Hulu … and so on …

Until the team at Anchorfree (the creators of Hotspot Shield) find a solution for this problem (maybe rotating IPs), you can unblock Hulu using IP Hider. I have just tested it in order to make sure Hulu does not use cookies to block the access and it worked without problems.

[IP Hider]

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“Green Tsunami” disables the monitoring of “Green Dam”, the censorship software developed with the support of the Chinese government. This way Chinese users are still able to use Ultrasurf.

Green Dam is a filtering solution that was announced as mandatory to install on every PC sold in China. Green Dam was designed to filter and block a much wider range of content than pornography, including FreeGate and UltraSurf, two of the most popular anti-censorship software tools developed and supported by GIF.

GIF has developed counter-measures to Green Dam, and released Green Tsunami which gives users options to temporarily disable the monitoring of “Green Dam,” or to completely purge it from their computers.

[Ultrareach | Download Ultrasurf 9.5 | Green Tsunami]

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1. Please introduce yourself and let us know who is behind Freedur.
My name is Chris Mathews and I am part of the team that created Freedur. 

2. When you started Freedur, what objects and motivations did you have?
The technology behind a proxy isn’t that complex but somehow most proxy services out there made proxies painful to use.  We thought we could make a proxy that is enjoyable to use and off we ran with that.

3. How has the response been to the release of Freedur?
People have been very happy with Freedur so far from what we can tell from blogs and twitter.  I think the time and attention we put into making Freedur easy and intuitive was really appreciated.

4. How would you describe Freedur in a few words?
Plug and play proxy.
5. What are the technologies behide Freedur? / How is Freedur hiding the IP address?
Secret

6. How is Freedur different from other hide ip tools?
It’s not ugly, it’s not clunky, and even people who are not computer savvy can use it with ease.

7. How many users do you have right now?
Several thousand users since we launched a month and a half ago.

8. What are your plans for future versions?
Support multiple languages as well as a Freedur VPN.

9. If there is anything thing else you would like to add about Freedur or if you have an advice for my readers …
Follow us on twitter (www.twitter.com/freedur) to be updated on Freedur and our top secret project in development!

[Freedur]

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Ace VPN features

• Provides high security – Encrypts and compresses all traffic including DNS, VOIP, FTP, instant messengers, P2P, torrents, IRC
• Hides your IP address such that you are able to access Hulu, Pandora, NBC.com, etc
• Hide your tracks from internet monitoring or web filtering
• Works on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, Linux, etc.

How to install Ace VPN and get started

Ace VPN makes use of OpenVPN, the well known open-source VPN client.  Firstly you need to install the client and use pre-configured config files to connect using your username and password (received by email).

Step-by-step information on how to install Ace VPN you can find here for Windows and here for Mac OS X. After you install OpenVPN you will need to download the config file and place it in C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config\ folder. The next step is to start OpenVPN and enter your username and password. If everything is all right, Ace VPN will connect and you see something similar to the right-bottom of your screen:

Important! If you are running on Vista make sure you read Further Notes for Windows Vista.

Free service limitations

While using the free version you are not allowed to use torrents, p2p and other file sharing.  If you are interested in such activities a Premium VPN service is available. Violation of these terms result in termination of the account. Please read the Terms of service in order to make sure your account will not be terminated.

10 Invites for How-to-hide-ip.info

Ace VPN is an invite-only free VPN service. If you are interested you can get one of the 10 invites that Ace VPN team offers to my readers. Here is what you have to do to get one:

• Subscribe to How-To-Hide-IP via email. If you are already subscribed go to the next step.
• Post a comment to this article saying something like: “I would love to browse anonymously for free using Ace VPN.”

The first 10 readers to ask for an invite will receive an email containing further instructions. 

[Ace VPN]

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IP Hider 4.5 comes with an improved user interface and better browser configuration. Below you can see a preview of the next version of the IP Hider.

Here is the list of improvements:

• Easier country/proxy selection. Beside the click on map features, the user is now able to choose the country of the chosen IP address by clicking on the corresponding flag. 
• More proxies. Several IP addresses frm Canada, Netherlands and France were added, beside the existing ones: US, UK, Germany and Ireland.
• Auto browser configuration. I have tested IP Hider 4.5 with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. All were configured without problems.

To sum up, I am looking forward for the next version of IP Hider 4.5 and I think it will have the same success as previous versions.

What do you expect from IP Hider 4.5?

Have you used one of the previous versions of IP Hider? What do you think of it? What do you expect from the new version?

[AllAnonymity]

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David Storn, an expert on Internet and networking technologies who was the former editor-in-chief at Network Computing, Tom’s Hardware.com, and DigitalLanding.com, wrote a great article explaining what proxy servers are and how can they be used both for good and bad. Here are some interesting fragments from the article:

That is the good side of proxies. What about the evil side? Proxies are supposed to be for internal users of an enterprise, but if a hacker can find out the IP address of an internal proxy, they can gain access to lots of network resources.
…
There are also proxies that are used to make your browsing history anonymous, which can be used for both good and evil; depending on what information you are trying to hide.

Here you can read it all: The Good and Evil of Proxy Servers.

What do you think about proxies?

Are they a good thing? Or evil? Or maybe both?

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