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Anonym is a network access anonymizer. Its main purpose is to hide your real public IP address. This is possible using anonymous proxy servers and open socks. Anonym collects proxy lists from well-known publicly available web sites, tests them and builds a database of working proxy servers. Every proxy is scanned and information about latency, physical location (country) and anonymity level is stored in the database. Maintaining a proxy list is a hard task because proxy average life is usually very short. With Anonym you can manage your proxy list by hand or you can let Anonym do it
What's New
Version 2.2:
- improved interface
- changed licensing model from BSD license to NLPL license, a more free license
- bug fixes
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
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| Downloads:15,891 |
| Version Downloads:2,307 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Free |
| Date:05 May 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Anonym is a network access anonymizer. Its main purpose is to hide your real public IP address. This is possible using anonymous proxy servers and open socks. Anonym collects proxy lists from well-known publicly available web sites, tests them and builds a database of working proxy servers. Every proxy is scanned and information about latency, physical location (country) and anonymity level is stored in the database. Maintaining a proxy list is a hard task because proxy average life is usually very short. With Anonym you can manage your proxy list by hand or you can let Anonym do it for you with automated operations. Anonym can automatically download new proxy lists from the web, add new working proxies to your "favourite list" and remove dead proxy servers. With Anonym you can hide your IP address when browsing with Safari, using FTP or mail servers, using SSH, Telnet, IRC or other network tools. Anonym supports http, https, ftp, stream, gopher, socks4 and socks5 proxy protocols. Anonym features also a dedicated socks bouncer and a terminal session manager. This tool allows you to connect to remote ssh/telnet/rsh/ servers using open socks. Anonym is an Cocoa/Applescript frontend for /usr/sbin/networksetup, it does not install any kernel extension or background daemon. Anonym is free and open source.
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Macs007 reviewed on 06 May 2012
With Anonym it's easy to build a list of proxy servers based on physical location.
I use both of them for different purposes.
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Neat2run reviewed on 29 Mar 2012
Asff reviewed on 13 Sep 2011
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piccobello reviewed on 25 Feb 2011
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Thanks.
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"Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari leak the user's IP address as a FTP test, recently implemented into our anonymity test suite, shows. Browsers based on WebKit seem to disregard their FTP proxy settings and fetch respective content directly. This is entirely independent of the particular anonymization service used. For instance, Tor users having Chrome or Safari as their browser are affected as well. Therefore, we strongly recommend to use a browser not based on WebKit, e.g. Firefox (with our privacy enhancing profile JonDoFox), in order to use the Internet anonymously."
Again, I strongly suggest you try this:
http://what-is-my-ip-address.anonymous-proxy-servers.net/
And clicking: START TEST: PLEASE CLICK HERE TO START THE ANONYMITY TEST
It is only after starting the test that you will see if your IP address is being revealed. Mine is, with Safari, every time! This is NOT the fault of Anonym. You MUST block Java as well!
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If you insist on using Safari or Chrome with Anonym, also use Little Snitch to block Safari's "end run" on ftp:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10426/little-snitch
Try it, and whenever you run the anonymity test in my previous post, use Little Snitch to block Safari's attempt to access the test via FTP. This should work on any Web-site that does the same.
Also, use ClicktoPlugin extension in Safari to block Java and Flash:
http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
None of this will help, of course, if you plan to take over the world and the authorities subpoena the log files of the proxy server you are using!
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Maybe I should put an option in Anonym to deny all FTP connections with a static ipfw rule... I'll think about it.
Anonymity is a funny challenge. :-)
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Raven. reviewed on 14 Nov 2010
Gets better and better...
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Donhugo reviewed on 06 Nov 2010
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Please review this app so laypeople like me can benefit from your expertise. Does Anonym work? What are its limitations? Anything else you can add to help us better utilize it?
Thanks!
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As to the larger question: does Anonym make you anonymous on the Internet? No, I'm afraid it doesn't. The big problem is that Java will reveal your IP address for any website that is specifically looking to find out who you are. There are other issues that a proxy server can't help you with such as tracking cookies, referer, user agent, and the operating system you're using (things that can single your out as unique and remove plausible deniability).
So, I wouldn't install Anonym and proceed with your plans to take over the world, in the hope that you won't get caught, because you will. However, for normal web-surfing, it does an adequate job keeping innocuous sites from knowing who you are.
If you want to remain truly anonymous -- I mean really, really anonymous -- stick to Tor or Jondo. I prefer Jondo for various reasons.
Test your anonymity here after installing Anonym:
http://what-is-my-ip-address.anonymous-proxy-servers.net/
Then click on "Start Test." Do you see your true IP? Whoops!
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Anyway... installed Anonym, used the 1st proxy in default list, and this site (http://what-is-my-ip-address.anonymous-proxy-servers.net) reported the proxy IP address and not mine. You can do the same test within the application or with any webkit based browser. This test is actually a webkit browser built-in into Anonym, with a hardcoded URL.
Please note that you can also use Anonym for other protocols like FTP, where there's no java/javascript/flash/cookies.
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Abadyat rated on 02 Sep 2011