Chatting anonymously with Miranda(Tutorial Proxy+Tor)
Published Oktober 11th, 2007 in english content, Anleitungen Tags: anonymous, miranda, proxy, Tor.Chatting anonymously with Miranda (Tutorial Proxy+Tor)
This tutorial is a translation. If you are a native speaker, please help be fixing grammar mistakes by leaving a comment.
You can download the newest miranda-version here:
http://www.miranda-im.org/download/ .
After installing just move the cursor to the flower and click “options“.
Now you are in the big menu. You choose “Network“.
Now you can choose if all connections should go through proxy. You can choose if you route the update notification, the client-to-client connections or all connections through the proxy. The anonymizing is just a side effect of many proxys.Therefore we cannot say “anonymizing” from the beginning. We choose “All connections”
Now we can choose the type of the proxy. This depends of the “type” of the proxy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS
If you want to use the anonymizing network Tor choose Socks 4 or 5. You can find a list of current public proxy servers here:
http://www.atomintersoft.com
In addition you fill in the port and ip adress.
Now you should choose “resolve hostnames thorugh proxy“. Tjis gives you a stronger anonymity, because hostnames (e.g. 2323.dip.t-dialin.net) will not be resolved through the DNS server of your own provider. The proxy will do this.Unfortunately this doesn’t work with all proxys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeepaliveParticularly when using “Tor” in connection with Miranda that is very recommendable, since Tor creates a connection by 3 servers. Accordingly stably the connection will be.
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This tutorial is making a few false assumptions; Only ICQ and AIM, to my knowledge, show your real IP. Y!M and MSN connect *only* through the server, so there is (by default) no way for anyone to know what your IP is; This is why Y!M and MSN got so popular.
Also, someone finding out your IP address isn’t really that bad (If it is, then perhaps you need to invest in better security software?); And either way, regardless of what protection and encryption you use, you’re still using the same username.
Finally, Tor isn’t entirely secure: Remember that the last Tor server can eavesdrop (sniff) EVERYTHING.
If what you want is an encrypted conversation, however, I suggest using OTR; Miranda has a plug-in for it.
Oh, and as far as I know, the Miranda logo isn’t a flower
Either way, here’s a corrected (and embellished - hope you don’t mind) version of your post. I had to leave some of it was it was since I wasn’t entirely certain what you meant.
This tutorial is a translation. If you are a native speaker, please help me fix grammar mistakes by leaving a comment.
Today I want to explain how you can chat anonymously with the instant messaging software “Miranda”. First I will talk about some general things. In this case, anonymity refers to masking your own IP address; Your messages will not be encrypted and can be sniffed anyway. The same problem exists on all other unencrypted protocols. Anonymity means “the attacker can see what is written, but not who the person (IP address) who is writing”. You should know that the non-anonymous connections from the past have been logged, and if someone really wants to obtain your real identity and has access to your buddy list (e.g. A.I.M.), he can talk to your buddies. The condition is that somebody from your buddylist knows your real identity.
First, download the newest version of Miranda.
After installing and starting Miranda, just move the pointer (mouse cursor) to the Miranda logo, click it, then click “options”.
In the options, choose “Network” on the list at the left.
Now you can choose if all connections should go through proxy; You can choose if you route the update notifications, the client-to-client connections or all connections through the proxy. The anonymizing is just a side effect of many proxys (how Tor works); Therefore, we cannot say “anonymizing” from the beginning. Choose “All connections”.
Now you can choose the type of the proxy. This depends of the “type” of the proxy. One such type of proxy is a SOCKS proxy.
If you want to use the anonymizing network Tor choose SOCKS 4 or 5. Here is a list of current public proxy servers.
Additionally, you fill in the port and IP address.
You should check “Resolve hostnames thorugh proxy”. This gives you a stronger anonymity, because hostnames (e.g. 2323.dip.t-dialin.net) will not be resolved through the DNS server of your own provider. The proxy will do this. Unfortunately this doesn’t work with all proxies.
You should also check “Send Keep-alives“; This keeps the network connection alive should nothing happen for a while (some proxies and providers close silent connections after a while).
This is particularly recommended for Tor and Miranda, since Tor creates a connection through three (or more) servers.
This tutorial is a small introduction to configuring programs with proxy servers. With other programs such as Azureus, ICQ, mIRC, etc., the options are very similar.
Thanks. I will fix the grammar stuff