Spoofing location - possible?

buralex at gmail.com buralex at gmail.com
Tue May 6 19:57:14 UTC 2008


  Wesley Kenzie <wkenzie at shaw.ca> said on May 06, 2008 13:32 -0400 (in 
part):
> Alec, we have setup pickaproxy.com specifically for this purpose - to
> geospoof your location and to eliminate the need to install and 
> maintain Tor
> and Vidalia. 
But then I would have missed the fun of playing around with Tor and 
Vidalia and torrc and all the other good stuff I've been doing for the 
last 5 or 6 hours :-)
> Check it out. Essentially we run (at present) a bunch of Tor
> clients on our server that have strict exit nodes for a specific 
> country, so
> you don't lose your geolocation when the exit nodes get changed every 10
> minutes. 
I configured a new us.pickaproxy.com:8125 in FoxyProxy. At first I was 
getting timeouts on everything but unticking [Socks proxy?] and then 
setting it "use Proxy for all URL's" was able to get it used. (I think)
> We keep these refreshed every couple hours to make sure they work,
> we only use fast nodes, and we make sure that strict entry nodes are also
> used from a completely different country and continent to help mitigate
> against privacy monitoring risks. You have the option of using stunnel to
> encrypt your connection to our server as well.
AFAICT - the manual solution (loading torrc with selected nicknames from 
torstatus.kgprog.com <http://torstatus.kgprog.com/>) is equivalent to 
using pickaproxy so long as I am only interested in US sites - correct? 
If for some reason I want to spoof as UK then pickaproxy would be much 
easier than getting fresh exit nodes from above, identifying the good 
ones, exiting TOR, reloading torrc .... Given enough time and need I 
think I could probably cobble together a batch script which could take 
down TOR (is that  necessary(?) or can a reload be triggered on the 
fly), search the torstatus csv file for desired country 
code/speed/upload days and rebuild torrc "ExitNodes" line. Better would 
be (I guess) to have a batch job that would build (say) torrc-us, 
torrc-uk, torrc-fr once a day so they can be easily copied to torrc (the 
live one) as desired.

Question: Your right sidebar says "We ask that you limit your use to 1 
hour per day. We take down and restart all of these proxy services every 
few hours". So turning on Pandora and letting it play all day in the 
background is something you would prefer I avoid?

As one Canuck to another - any suggestions for "neat" sites requiring 
geospoofing outside the US and not open to Canadians?

Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail
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