TOR, Vidalia, AdvOR for accessing geographically restricted content

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All geographically restricted web-sites and country-based restriction relies on an IP address. Blocks of IP addresses are issued and assigned to a specific country in bulk. When an IP address is translated to be located in an unsupported country, the web-site blocks access of a user. Thus in order to overcome regional restriction you need to have an IP address belonging to a supported country (primarily the United States or the U.K.).

Onion Routing (OR) is a system which claims to enable its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet (claims because TOR does not, and by design cannot, encrypt the traffic between an exit node and the target server, any exit node is in a position to capture any traffic passing through it which does not use end-to-end encryption, e.g. SSL. So don't mistake TOR's anonymity for security!) Please also note that someone can use you an exit node to attack computers, distribute children's porn, send spam and many illegal activities, and so police can come to your door to ask about it!


TOR, Vidalia, AdvOR for accessing geographically restricted content

• The Onion Router (TOR) Anonymity Network
  
  TOR (The Onion Router) is a free software implementation of second-generation onion routing – a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet by bouncing network communication around a distributed network of of relays run by volunteers all around the world. These relays are called onion routers. TOR works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.
  
  It means that if the onion server is located in US, then it can be used as a trick to access US-only web contents.
  
  To use TOR, user need to force the last node to be in the desired country (the U.S., the U.K.,...). To use TOR you may try applications like OperaTor or OpenPandora.
  
  Follow these steps to use TOR to bypass U.S. regional restriction:
  
  Click Start -> All Programs -> TOR to open torrc file.
  Append the following two lines to the the bottom of the file:
  

  StrictExitNodes 1
  ExitNodes {us}

  This will allow dynamically configure a US-based IP as exit node. TOR will automatically choose a suitable exit node from the
  chosen country.
  
  Instead of the country you may also show the node names explicitly. The problem is that nodes become removed or inactive. Furthermore other nodes can still be alive but other nodes have a better bandwidth and throughput.
  
• Advanced Onion Router (AdVor) is a client for OR network and is intended to be an improved alternative for Tor+Vidalia+Privoxy bundle for Windows users. It is able to "force" a program and its plugins to use the Tor proxy regardless of its configured proxy