Over the coming weeks this site will be looking at how to be Anonymous in the Internet, if this is at all possible.
This post was published, as a test using well known anonymizing tool – Tor, available for download here. Tor is well known for being slow but secure (see discussions here).
The aim was to see how long it takes to publish an “anonymous” article using Tor.
The test was conducted by publishing this article (the times were filled in afterwords) to there Where is Your Data? site which uses the Wordpress blog.
First Attempt – to post the article using “BlogJet” – a blog posting tool: Failed. Total Time – 1 minutes
Second Attempt to Log in via the website site: Failed, Firefox 3 could not log onto Tor. Therefore needed to reboot the machine and establish Tor (about 5 minutes)
Third Attempt: Success
Connected to the webstie, http://whereisyourdata.co.uk/whereismydata. This took about 1 min to load
Logged in – about 2.8 min to load
Clicked Write - 3.2 min to load
Copied and pasted text into article window – about 0.5 min
Clicked “Save” – about 1.2 min
Clicked Publish- about 0.5 min
Total Time for the Third Attempt – 9.2 min
Summary:
Can you produce an anonymous blog article with Tor? Yes, technically its easy, but its painfully slow.