Register Log in   The Anonym.OS LiveCD  Wired's coverage of the
DC area Schmoo Con security/hacker convention includes …
Wired's coverage of the DC area Schmoo Con security/hacker
convention includes an article on a project that attempts to use
a LiveCD to provide convenient and secure anonymous Internet
access for everyday users. The Anonym.OS v1.0 release, put
together by kaos.theory security research, is a bootable CD-ROM
(a LiveCD) that runs OpenBSD 3.8 and contains a number of tools
and configuration options that are aimed at preventing anyone on
the other end of a network connection from identifying the
anonymized user and/or tracking his or her activities.  The idea
behind Anonym.OS is that the stereotypical "grandma" can pop in
the Anonym.OS LiveCD, find an open access point, and do whatever
she likes with her Internet connection—visit online shrines to
St. Juarez, download pirated knitting patterns and free recipes,
meet single grandpas, etc.—in the comfort of complete and
untraceable anonymity. In