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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 > > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html