JonDo/Tor-Secure-Live-DVD offers a secure, pre-configured environment for anonymous surfing and more. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux.
The live system contains proxy clients for JonDonym, Tor Onion Router and Mixmaster remailer. JonDoFox is a pre-configured browser for anonymous web surfing and TorBrowser is installed too.
Thunderbird for e-mails, Pidgin for anonymous instant messaging and chats, Parole media player, MAT for cleaning documents and more application, TorChat, LibreOffice.org, GIMP, Calibre for eBooks and some other tools.
Why using JonDonym
Any communication on the Internet leaves all kinds of digital traces which can be automatically acquired, saved and analyzed. Some companies have thus specialized in creating individual user profiles from surfing related data. These databases are of high economic value since they allow an enterprise to comprehensively profile their costumers. This process is called data accumulation or data enhancement in data mining lingo.
There are many reasons why one should avoid leaving digital traces when surfing: part of the data collected advects into scoring systems which are used to evaluate loan requests, to create individually priced offers or to decide on eligibility for C.O.D. service. Employers may be generated a character profile of their job applicants from traces on the Net prior to hiring them. Freedom of opinion is limited by governments or institutions where they trace individual surfers that use or edit certain web services or deny them any usage at all. Companies may recognize employees of other businesses or even those of their competition and subsequently annoy them with promotional calls or email spam. Browser related data exposes vulnerabilities in the surfing machine. An hacker may subsequently contact the computer directly and attack it.
Further problematic is that these traces are collected, saved, sent and processed without your consent and most widely unnoticed. Decisions not being understandable by you may be based on this information.
Benefits of JonDonym
Trust gained through indepence, responsibility and knowledge
JonDonym servers are operated by independent entities commited to protecting your data. Because these operators are independent from each other, no single organization has complete information about you. Your anonymity is fully protected, unlike alternatives like (Web-)Proxies and VPNs, which are controlled by a single party and can be easily exploited thereby. In many cases their background and their intent are unknown.
Global distribution across countries and oceans
When you surf the web your requests travel across different relay points before serving the web page. Like an Internet provider, each of these relay points can monitor your entire data traffic on its way towards its destination, e.g. a website or an e-mail service. By analyzing this data, the relay points may completely deanonymize VPN services and (web-) proxies which only have only one single server location. But with JonDonym, you are protected! Each of JonDonym's premium services consists of several servers in several different countries as well as their operators. It would require international cooperation between countries or operator organizations for your information to be revealed.
High speed surfing
JonDonym's premium services are as fast as VPN services and as the fastest (Web-) proxies, and up to 100x faster than comparable services like Tor. JonDonym - Surf, no lag, guaranteed!
Secure browsing
Your browser can become a gateway for malicious software, spyware, and viruses designed to harm your PC and your privacy. (Web-) proxies and VPN- services offer no protection against bad software and can be easily exploited. The JonDoFox browser profile is JonDonym's solution to protect your anonymity and your PC.
Browse, Chat, E-Mail... Anonymously
Other anonymization services like web proxies often restrict your Internet access to web surfing. JonDonym introduces new possibilities making you invisible on the internet like anonymous chats or e-mail.
Protect against web profiling
JonDonym strengthens your anonymity by applying a special technique. Every request is anonymized separately so tracking your web habits is impossible. JonDonym does not create a constant link between you and the JonDonym network exit point. This technique proves JonDonym is in a league of its own.
Anonymity, the vision..
Most other anonymity services deploy standard technologies. These technologies were not designed to defend your anonymity and fail to fully protect you. For this reason, an experienced research team stands behind JonDonym technologies which cooperates with universities and searches tirelessly for new solutions to provide you the best in anonymity.
JonDonym is evading Internet blockings
In order to block the access to specific Internet contents it seems that in many countries it comes into fashion to install suspensions of service. As a result this kind of censorship does not solve any problems at all, but keeps them only secret. Since normally black lists containing web sites are not subject to parliamentary or judicial control,their potential of abuse even in democratic states is very high. It is telling that even some victims, on behalf of their name censorship of the Internet is advertised, speak against such a pretence. Because nobody is really helped with blocking web sites, but harmed at best. On the other hand it is possible, in most cases, to shut down a web server quickly which is hosting illegal contents using international legal aid or dropping the web host a line.
Therefore, JonDonym is being developed as well to the end that it is up to the users which of the information available in the Internet they want to access. We are using different methods to achieve this goal:
No Internet censorship via JonDonym
Web sites which are accessed via JonDonym are not blocked unless someone wants it for her own web site. As soon as you are connected to a mix cascade using JonDo you are able to surf the Web without being blocked and observed.
Get yourself involved against Internet blockings!
In some heavily censored states even the connection to JonDonym-mixes is being blocked. You can help people in these states by activating the anti censorship service within your JonDo ->. A part of the earnings we get selling JonDonym-accounts go to the further development of this very laborious technology.
Abuse resistence
Copyright infringements and illegal downloads
Copyright infringements via JonDonym-mixes are not efficient and therefore rather unlikely. That is because the user has either to pay for the data traffic (uploads/downloads using premium-mixes) or alternatively the connection is very slow (mixes free of charge). Since, in addition to that, a JonDo-user is not able to act as a server of data, a distribution of copyrighted or illegal material (movies, child pornography et al.) using file sharing services is not possible.
However, for the rare cases in which a copyright infringement could happen, considering the following is important: Due to technical reasons, it is neither possible for the mix operators nor for JonDos to deanonymize past connections.
Web-site-hacking, cheating and spam in forums
Individual users may misuse JonDonym in order to protect themselves against prosecution while hacking web sites, posting insults in forums or cheating in online-games. (Figures in the low two-digit range are reported, yearly, while thousands of users are deploying JonDonym for legitimate purposes daily.) Providers of web sites can send a blacklist containing their DNS-names / IP-addresses / URLs to JonDos, if they do not defend themselves against such attacks otherwise.
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