xB Browser for anonymous browsing
posted Jun 16th 2008 10:15pm by Eliot Phillipsfiled under: security hacks
Download Squad highlighted the xB Browser today. It’s a product offered by XeroBank and is the successor to the TorPark project. The browser anonymizes your browsing using the Tor network and doesn’t remember passwords, sites visited, or any other personal information. Scripts and plugins are disallowed by default, since they could be used to identify you. Remember that Tor just anonymizes; you’re still at the mercy of the exit nodes when it comes to security.
That’s just the free version though. Subscribers to XeroBank have access to an anonymous mail server and VPN service. If you’re a subscriber your bowser session is tunneled through XeroBank’s pool of servers and not the Tor network. We think they should have maintained a separate product name since this distinction isn’t clear outside of the FAQ.
I dunno… seems like subscribing to a commercial service might defeat the purpose.
I don’t see what’s so bad about using a rexx script to download the html and then open it in arachne, with the computer offline. seems like plugins and whatnot would have no danger if the computer is offline.
In my opinion, it’s overkill. But us nerds like overkill, don’t we?
Posted at 11:16 pm on Jun 16th, 2008 by RT (Panzer Time!)