Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

May 16, 2019

Free Online Proxy Servers (Review)

Filed under: Cybersecurity,Proxy Servers,Tor — Patrick Durusau @ 3:59 pm

The Best Free Online Proxy Servers You Can Use Safely by Dan Price.

From the post:

Proxy sites and proxy servers allow internet users to bypass internet restrictions and access content that would otherwise be blocked.

Lots of free proxy providers exist, but which are the best? Are there any risks of using a free online proxy? And what alternatives are available?

Price has a top 5 free proxy servers that starts with HideMyAss and goes down from there. 😉 Links to several paid proxy services are listed as well.

HideMyAss uses cookies so best to approach them using a VPN and a Tor browser. You should be using a VPN and a Tor browser by default. Even if you don’t need that level of security, it helps to generate traffic that benefits others.

November 14, 2012

Scotty [Unrestricted Access to Your Topic Map]

Filed under: Proxy Servers,Topic Map Systems — Patrick Durusau @ 5:27 am

Scotty – We transfer what you can’t

From the website/features:

Scotty is a free opensource proxy software for bypassing filter and censorship systems. A free and unrestricted web is one of the most important values our society has. This software helps people who are victims of censorship of governments or private organizations.

  • lightweight & platform independent
  • open source and free
  • secure RSA based encryption
  • uses simple http (when you have internet access, scotty works)
  • tunneling through any firewalls, webwashers, web filter
  • no privacy issues: uses your own server
  • supports Google AppEngine

Secure communications is likely to be a part of any topic map “system.”

Having topic mapped data is interesting but not terribly useful unless others can reach it. Past censors and others. Even more useful if others can communicate to add data to the topic map.

Scotty enables both of those use cases free of censorship.

There are other such systems but this one caught my eye this morning. Other suggestions welcome.

I first saw this in a tweet by Johannes Schmidt.

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