Privacy Arms Race Takes Another Step

An anonymous reader writes "There is an ongoing arms race between privacy tools and info harvesters (spammers, advertisers, marketers, bosses, governments). In the latest move in this battle Anonymizer has released a new version of its privacy service. The Register has an article on the new version. CNET has the press release if you want the company line."

Nigeria

[Star Stealing Girl]

I liked that "My money went to Nigeria and all I got was this lousy shirt" graphic. . .

I like the concept

[wompser]

But this has some problems. I just tried it, and my favorite site to surf from work is blocked! I can't get to monster.com [monster.com]!!! You have to pay for the unrestricted version to get access to "the web's most popular sites." What crap! Also annoying, because popular sites must come out of their cache, Slashdot.org (my second favorite site to surf from work!) does not have the most current stories. It is going to be hard to post an anoymous First Post with this servce! I like the idea, but I consider this slashdot story to be a clever advertisment of a new product, and has the 2 best geek buzzwords: pivacy and security

Or...

[baldass_newbie]

You could try Anonymous Browsing [space.net.au].

Checking IP addresses

[NexusTw1n]

"Unrue said it is often used by enterprises for checking out their competitor's web sites. He cited instances where companies have programmed their sites to return false information, inflated prices or even job offers if a page is requested from an address in their competitor's IP range."

ftp 207.46.134.30

If (IP=64.28.67.150 ) echo 'Welcome ! Unfortunately our free update service is no longer available. Please have several credit cards handy'

But can you trust anonimizer?

[Yottabyte84]

I don't see how you can trust anonimizer to not keep logs. How do we know that they aren't run by the feds? I'd rather just get a shell account and tunnel my traffic through that.