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Re: [LUG] spoofing an IP address

 

TOR is The Onion Router

Your traffic goes through a randomly selected group of web proxies to 
hide your original IP

There is no guarantee your exit node will be in USA tho


Simon Robert wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:16 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Simon Robert wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I want to fake an IP address to make it look like I'm located in North
>>> America. This is because I have a sony ebook reader and the sony ebook
>>> shop is for America only, us Brits have to use Waterstones which has a
>>> lot less titles and a pretty crap site (easy to end up ordering a real
>>> book by mistake).
>>>
>>> Of course this involves windows only software, adobe for waterstones and
>>> a custom thing for sony. So I have windows 7 running on virtual box for
>>> this. Is it possible to have the virtual machine spoof an IP address?
>>> Then I'd be able to buy titles from the Sony shop.
>>>       
>> Spoofing your outgoing IP address is relatively easy.
>>
>> However, getting data back to your real IP address, after spoofing the 
>> source IP address is impossible.
>>
>> What you need is some sort of proxy server based in the US, or use 
>> something like Tor if you can use an exit node located in the US.
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>>     
> Thanks for the info. I did a of bit googling, but there was so much
> extraneous stuff I gave up. What is "Tor" (I could google, but think I'd
> mostly find stuff about a (rather good) sf publisher...)
>
> S
>
>
>   


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