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n. (context Internet English) A software tool that attempts to make a user's Internet activity untraceable by acting as a proxy.
Wikipedia
Anonymizer, Inc. is an Internet privacy company, founded in 1995 by Lance Cottrell, author of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer. Anonymizer was originally named Infonex Internet. The name was changed to Anonymizer in 1997 when the company acquired a web based privacy proxy of the same name developed by Justin Boyan at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. Boyan licensed the software to C2Net for public beta testing before selling it to Infonex. One of the first web privacy companies founded, Anonymizer creates a VPN link between its servers and its users computer, creating a random IP address, rather than the one actually being used. This can be used to anonymously report a crime, avoid spam, avoid Internet censorship, keep the users identity safe and track competitors, among other uses. No humans are involved in processing requests for the Anonymizer, and logs are not kept, which keeps usage anonymous.
An anonymizer or an anonymous proxy is a tool that attempts to make activity on the Internet untraceable. It is a proxy server computer that acts as an intermediary and privacy shield between a client computer and the rest of the Internet. It accesses the Internet on the user's behalf, protecting personal information by hiding the client computer's identifying information.
Usage examples of "anonymizer".
His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the "hackability" of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else's computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would "sniff out" - find - user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone's computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect "launder" e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn't trace Gillette).
An anonymizer, or cloak, is a software program that blocks any attempts to trace you when you're online by making it appear that you're someone else and are in a different location from where you really are.
Gillette returned to the keyboard, examined Miller's program briefly and then keyed his new fake user-name, Renegade334, into the anonymizer.
He typed some commands and examined the anonymizer that Miller had hacked together.
The anonymizer did tell Triple-X that Renegade was in Austin, but, when he'd typed BRB, the hacker must've run a further test, which showed that the length of time it took the pings to get to and from Renegade's computer was far too short for the electrons to make the round-trip all the way to Texas and back.
This was a serious mistake - it would have been simple to build a short delay into the anonymizer to add few milliseconds and make it appear that Renegade was a thousand miles farther away.
Stephen Miller sat sullenly by himself, looking over notes, perhaps still troubled by the mistake he'd made with the anonymizer, which had let Triple-X get away.
His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the “hackability” of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else’s computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would “sniff out” – find – user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone’s computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect “launder” e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn’t trace Gillette).
The anonymizer did tell Triple-X that Renegade was in Austin, but, when he’d typed BRB, the hacker must’ve run a further test, which showed that the length of time it took the pings to get to and from Renegade’s computer was far too short for the electrons to make the round-trip all the way to Texas and back.
Stephen Miller sat sullenly by himself, looking over notes, perhaps still troubled by the mistake he’d made with the anonymizer, which had let Triple-X get away.
Steht kein solcher Zugang zur Verfügung, sollte ein "Anonymizer" benutzt werden.
Surfman über den Anonymizer, ist die IP-Adresse nicht zurückverfolgbar.
She logged on to the Internet via an anonymizer browser account rather than her regular ISP account.
When he got lonely for the sound of human voices, he could pull in a zonecast from the Netcom 9 platform or Canada's CBC-West satellite, or use his anonymizer and find a chat online.
KEEPING MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER If you insist on using Microsoft Internet Explorer then I strongly recommend that you check out at least one of these programs: PurgeIE Anonymizer Window Washer Cache and Cookie Washer for IE I have already tried and tested some other programs and you'd be surprised on how many of them DON'T pass the tests.