老黃賣瓜::自打嘴巴

We always said that Google is your friend when you search information on the Internet. However when it comes to privacy, Google is not always your friend. It is because Google stores a cookie on your PC expiring in 2038. If you are a paranoid person like me. Then you should considered using the following method to protect your privacy.

Using anonymous proxy is one of the solution to solved the above problem and surf the web anonymously, but this solutions has it’s own drawback, it will slow down your connection to the outside world(internet). Then I come across this small how-to page in the internet. If you are using a decent and resonable morden web browser (read mozilla firefox), then you can redirect all your google search request to anonymous proxy, while still surfing the web at full speed.

The following steps demostrate on a ubuntu 6.06 Dapper LTS computer:

1. Install tor
   • Do not use the packages in ubuntu’s universe. They are not maintained and most likely old and therefore miss out on stability and possibly security fixes. Add the following two line in /etc/apt/source.list
     

     deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor dapper main
     deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor dapper main

   • Verifying signatures with apt 0.6.x
     

     # gpg –keyserver subkeys.pgp.net –recv 94C09C7F
     # gpg –fingerprint 94C09C7F
     # gpg –export 94C09C7F | sudo apt-key add -

   • Inatall tor
     

     # apt-get update
     # apt-get install tor

2. Install foxyproxy extension for your firefox, restart firefox.
3. Configure FoxyProxy
4. Delete cookie from Firefox
5. Set Firefox so that it only keeps cookies till you close Firefox (Edit/Preferences/Privacy/Cookies)
6. Surf the Internet