TOR is a free and open network which provides anonymity to users on internet protecting their privacy against network surveillance and traffic analysis. In an earlier blog post we shared how to configure IP country of your choice when using TOR, this is just a inforgraphic showing what exactly TOR is and how it works.

Proxies, VPN and Tor Network have been the most popular tools in hands of users wanting to bypass internet censorship in countries like China, Iran, Syria and North Korea. Lantern a free utility for Windows, Mac and Linux which allows users to bypass internet censorship by routing internet connections via "trusted" friends located in non-restrictive countries. Unlike Tor, Lantern is a tool having the priority to provide access via trusted computers and is not designed to prevent monitoring or anonymize a user's connection. Lantern also makes use of it's cloud-servers acting as proxy to provide access if no trusted peer-to-peer connection via a friend is available, these connections are also faster then other similar tools like GoAgent, Freegate, Ultrasurf, Psiphon and Autoproxy as it focuses to utilize it's proxy-resources in providing access to only "a list of known blocked sites" instead of all websites wasting resources.

Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency being anonymous and untraceable has been the preferred choice for doing illegal business online. After, being widely used for all kinds on illegal online trading like drugs, exploits and numerous other black-market services the currency has another taker which will definitely raise many eyebrows and can result in strict governmental actions. A new online service hosted on underground, anonymous Tor network is now being used to offer an crowdfunded bounty killer service. Named "The Assassination Market" the service lets anyone anonymously contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of any government official just like Kickstarter but for political assassinations.

The Kickstarter for political murders is already receiving huge funds and have 7 nominations (nominating someone needs someone to propose a name and pay the 1 Bitcoin fee worth US$766.99) so far. "Ben Shalom Bernanke" the current chairman of Federal Reserve USA tops the chart and has collected maximum bounty worth ฿124.14 or US$95106.76 at today's exchange rate.

Famous hacker group 'anonymous' recently engaged Operation India asking citizens to "trash the current corrupt government and install a new one.", they defaced several Indian government and leading political parties websites spreading there message. Now, on the lines of "Occupy Wallstreet" protests the group is asking citizens to stage peaceful protests all across the country.

Official infographic and other details below.

Country specific internet censorship is very common to block users of other countries from accessing online content - popular examples of such censorship would be Youtube, Hulu, Pandora and BBC Player, We have shared many anonymous surfing tricks to bypass these limitations but they were mostly limited to act as a USA or UK proxy.

Today's trick allows you to use popular anonymity network TOR providing you an IP address from country of your choice, we will be configuring TOR to have an exit node of our choice so that we can control our IP's country as required.

Your IP address can reveal a lot about you, and if you are concerned about privacy while downloading torrent files and surfing the web or are getting blocked because of internet censorship, using proxy servers and VPN services is an solution to the problem but both require paid services for fast access and bandwidth intensive usage, but not anymore as all new free internet anonymity service BitBlinder promises to protect your identity by hiding your IP address and allowing private web-browsing and torrent downloading at fast speeds.

The multi-platform, open-source application BitBlinder is currently in Beta and makes use of TOR network for creating encrypted anonymous connections between peers, every user is required to contribute by relaying data for others making the network fast and efficient.