I could spend all my time reviewing site statistics or I could just write some articles. I typically choose to do the later. But occasionally (typically about once a month) I’ll look at the statistics for the site. Typically it’s just to see if the world is still an insane place and if people still view the dribble I tend to write here. But I see a lot of funny stuff in there and so those statistics tend to also afford me a bit of comedic relief. For example, images I use in my site are often used by others. I am guessing that the webmaster for a site simply…
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Using Tor with Mac OS X
July 31, 2009Tor is a tool that can be used to proxy your online communications between multiple, randomly selected, global providers effectively anonymizing your Internet traffic. Tor is a free anonymizing service, but doesn’t also encrypt your traffic. Privoxy is a non-caching proxy that also has a certain amount of filtering built into it. Many may use privoxy to do adware removal. But it can also be used to filter information for Tor. Installers are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files. Once you have installed privoxy you can access the configuration page at http://www.privoxy.org/config/. Because privoxy is a command line tool, you can also access the help page for that using the following command (using…