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How To Hide IP/Mac Address On A Mac

you cannot "hide" your IP unless using some sort of integrated IPSec, which doesnt really hide it anyway...

if you are on the net, you can be traced. just be smart and you will be fine.
 
There are reasons

to want to hide your IP address or in other ways anonymize your internet activity besides downloading pirated material, and at least one of them has been mentioned by one of the people looking for answers here: in order to view content that is blocked by people not coming from the right country.

This particularly affects American users who are traveling or working overseas but still want to, say, access video content on Amazon or Hulu, etc.

Another reason to want to disguise your internet activity is if, eg, you are in some country like China that blocks access to certain sites. The HotSpot program that was mentioned in one reply has been promoted as a solution for people who need to circumvent the so-called "great firewall of China."
 
Just to reiterate; tor is for browser traffic only.

Despite what other uneducated posters have said, TOR is NOT meant for media, torrents, or anything else. Seriously. Zombilly clearly hasn't read the entire TOR website, and just chose to copy/paste a segment to try to bolster his point.

Furthermore, if you think Tor is protecting you when you use media... lol. Ah, how uneducated some people are. Just as an fyi, when you use JS, flash, or other plugins, it leaves you open and unprotected. Don't believe me? Fine, its on the TOR site too. If you use any of these for media, your IP address can be compromised anyways, so there's really no point in you using TOR. Furthermore, you can't use TOR for torrents; there's so many flaws its ridiculous. If you understand how torrents work you'd see why, but lets just say this; your IP is wide open and clear on P2P clients.
 
factory186 speaks the truth

factory186 said:
to want to hide your IP address or in other ways anonymize your internet activity besides downloading pirated material, and at least one of them has been mentioned by one of the people looking for answers here: in order to view content that is blocked by people not coming from the right country.

This particularly affects American users who are traveling or working overseas but still want to, say, access video content on Amazon or Hulu, etc.

Another reason to want to disguise your internet activity is if, eg, you are in some country like China that blocks access to certain sites. The HotSpot program that was mentioned in one reply has been promoted as a solution for people who need to circumvent the so-called "great firewall of China."
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Speaking as an American who has lived overseas for the past 12 years, currently in China for the last eight, I can tell you that factory186 shows intelligent insight. Without a VPN (no, I'm not going to name it) expats would not be able to access hundreds (thousands?) of websites, including many banks, many universities, Google, Youtube, Facebook, etc.

My praise goes out to factory186 for having an excellent world vision:).
 
neko girl said:
Do you mean other services are a breach of terms of service? I have to admit I've used it for non-web services before..
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It's not a breach of TOS, but rather a breach of security; some media services can go outside of TOR without you knowing, such as JS, flash, etc. It's really meant for basic HTTP/S traffic, nothing else. Furthermore, using it for things like torrents just hogs bandwidth, and really throttles your speed. It's all on the TOR site; there's other services like TOR that are better than it for media and whatnot, however they have other harsh restrictions.

I'd say that TOR, Onionskin, etc is the last option you want-- a good VPN is infinitely better.
 
A simple question from a simple soul.

Hi, I came on looking for a way to get on a particular site, I had no idea it was such a technical thread, most of it is over my head. My problem:-
I want to visit the US arm of an ordinary commercial perfectly legal travel site in the US. But it recognises where I'm at and immediately flips me over to the UK site. How can I get around this in words of one syllable or less please.
Gari
 
garigoun said:
Hi, I came on looking for a way to get on a particular site, I had no idea it was such a technical thread, most of it is over my head. My problem:-
I want to visit the US arm of an ordinary commercial perfectly legal travel site in the US. But it recognises where I'm at and immediately flips me over to the UK site. How can I get around this in words of one syllable or less please.
Gari
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You can use Tor and get a node in the States.
 
Yes Tor is up I'm looking at the network map and the vidalia control panel whatever the hell that is. Stats bar is authenticating to TOR but V.V. slowly. I have a panel with lots of flags ND I picked a US one at random. Authenticating bar seems stuck about 1/10th green.
G.


Now status tells me I'm connected to Tor network. Tried to access the site, still flipped me back to UK site.

http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/mad.gif
 
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wpautz said:
Anyway, outta curiosity, is there a way for me to appear to be in the US, or at least for my location to be invisible? Perhaps by hiding my IP address?

Actually, a sandwich sounds real good right now.

Thanks.
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You can use a VPN or proxy software that provides servers in US and your problem is solved. IP Privacy is compatible with MAC you should give it a try: http://www.privacy-pro.com
 
Can't Access Proxy sites

I'm in China and I need something to get past the Great Wall!!
I loaded Tor and Vidalia in the US but they won't work here now. I also loaded proxpn but that doesn't seem to work either.

I've tried to access a lot of the free proxy sites and the web pages won't open.

I'm trying to find a way to access some blocked sites without having to sign up for a service. Does anyone have any suggestions?

If not, which is a safe, reliable proxy service to use (if I have to pay)?

Thanks
 
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