Comments on: Anonymous Connections Over the Internet – Using Socks Chains Proxy Proxies

By: scanner

scanner — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:46:40 +0000

Nice article Darknet

The way I used to remain relatively anonymous is to log into undernet or efnet and issue a

/who *dsl*

Select an ip from the returned addresses and scan the class c for port 80 and 8080.

Set up a for loop and use hydra or manually try log into (via tor) the routers you find with the default login:pwd. There are an amazing ammount of dsl routers with default login and passwords.

Some common routers (newer DLink, Dynalink, BT Voyager, Billion, Nokia M11, etc.) let you port forward/NAT externally (ie bounce from the external ip to another ip on the Internet rather that only performing NAT to the local network.)

Set up port forwarding/NAT and chain the routers together:

you > tor > router > router > router > target.

I’ve been doing this for quite a few years and the amount of default logins for dsl routers seems to be increasing.

There is also fun to be had cracking the machines behind the routers

I don’t agree with using *only* tor for anonymous hacking. It gives it a bad name and I’m sure hacking/cracking isn’t the use the tor developers have in mind. Much better that an anonymous dsl ip shows up in the logs than a tor gateway.

Cheers then!

By: Darknet

Darknet — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:46:17 +0000

Hey guys, I do agree Tor is better, I did cover it in a fair amount of detail in this article – Anonymity – Hiding your identity in 2006

I just felt like doing something a bit old-skool

Cheers!

By: CS Shyam Sundar

CS Shyam Sundar — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:19:43 +0000

‘tor’ is a lot better !!!

By: grok

grok — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:08:12 +0000

first off, thanks for the great tutorial. i just thought i’d help carry on your advice for windows users a little further for those that do not want to do the “manual labor” of discovery and maintenance of their proxy list.

since you’re providing this solution for windows based users i’d recommend an even easier (in the terms of fire and forgetfulness) of using “The Onion Router” (tor.eff.org). this is a solution which will provide you with the same functionality (multi-hop anonymous proxy connections that works almost like a p2p network) which are implemented with no logging enabled.

There are simple installation instructions to follow to get this setup. There’s even a firefox plugin that allows you to switch between a “proxied-out” connection and a non-proxy connection.

Using google as a simple test as to whether it was working or not, I’d see the languange they’d present their page to me in a non-english language nearly every time. (Sometimes chinese, german, etc.) on those very few occaisions when it wasn’t presented i’d use another page to show me the connection info. although i do like your first link alot better than my old method and have updated my notes to use it now. (btw the second link was down due to ddos attack)

again i’d like to thank you for the time and effort you put into your tutorial and offer this up only as another way to skin the same cat.

grok