New browser allows surfers to remain anonymous; could help people involved in illegal online activities

A group of would-be hackers has released Torpak, an Internet browser that lets people surf the web anonymously. The browser uses a series of servers to continuously change the IP address a website sees, making it impossible to track the person visiting the site.

A person in Ghana, therefore, could appear to be on a university computer in Germany, and then be on a computer in Russia a minute later. Torpak can allow political refugees to protect themselves as well as allow people evade firewalls set up in countries like China. However, it can also be used to hide child pornographers from law enforcement officials.

More at NewsFactor:
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(Thanks to Glenn S Omura at mtechie for passing this along. Russ)

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