SERVICES

Anonymous SURFING

Many people use the Internet under the illusion that their actions are private and anonymous. Many think that the world wide web is an anonymous playground for visiting their favorite sites from the comfort and privacy of their homes. Unfortunately, it isn't so. Every time you visit a site, you leave a calling card that reveals private and personal information. Where you're coming from, what kind of computer you have, and other details of your on-line adventures are available to every site you enter. And most sites keep logs of all your visits.

We all know about internet marketers and their utilities to gather statistics about you for marketing purposes without your consent. Almost all of us have been targets to such attacks at least once while surfing the net.

Our Server prevents web sites from tracking you and from accessing sensitive information in your browser. We act as an agent between you and the site you want to view. You connect to us, then the we go off in the network to find the page you wish to view. We act as a security screen between you and the web site page.

 

Security Protection

Consider this attack:

Go to this page. You will be asked a user name and password. Choose any of the following combinations:

USERNAME	PASSWORD
john	letmein
jayne	hello
tester	tester
hacker	breakit

As you will notice, the username you typed in wil be effectively logged. This method is similiar to cookies but it just uses environment variables. Alternately, we might ask you to enter your own user name and password. Since most of the time users type in the same username password as their login to their ISP, we might write a perl script that will collect your user name and password and the other environment variables (most notably REMOTE_HOST), telnet in to that address of your Internet Service Provider and try to log in to your account while you are happily viewing the pages.Since it is illegal for us to try to break into your account, we cannot demonstrate it here but if you contact us and allow us to do that, we will demonstrate that for you.

By effectively removing your IP address and remote host, we eliminate the posiblity of such an attack.

 

Anonymous E-Mail

There are times when you wish to send some e-mail without letting the recipient know who you are. When you send mail from your regular ISP, the mail headers always reveal who you are.

From our web-based anonymous mail form, we allow you to send e-mail without revealing who they are. The mail headers does not contain any information about you whatsoever. Stay tuned for more mail features like encryption, chaining, latency time etc. Check out our coming soon page to get an idea of what is being expected next.

You can go to this address to send mail from our site:

http://somebody.net/mail/index.html

 

Enhanced DNS (Domain Name Service), new gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain) Support

These sites below will give "DNS Error, host not found" messages in 98% of other ISPs. This is because these domain names are New Generic Top Level Domain names and DNS (domain name service) is not provided since they are new extensions in Internet. Our servers provide ROOT DNS service for all these new domains names (like .nic, .mall, .web, .film etc) in accordance with their registry AlterNIC. Of course support for standard domain names like .com, .net, .edu, .uk etc is there as well in accordance with InterNIC. You will need to configure your browser first.

.web Internet Domain Name Registry http://nic.web

Caribbean Tourist Guide http://www.carib.tour

Virgin Islands Shopping Mall http://www.bvi.mall

(Yes you are seeing it right. Indeed these domains are ending in .web and .mall instead of the standard ones like .com or .net or .org. Click on them and see for yourself that they are just like regular domains. There are hot debates on these issues. Visit Alternic for more details)

 

Company Protection

Our service allows you to surf the web without revealing any personal information or information about your company.

Running SOMEBODY as a local proxy server, a company can protect all its web users from sites which harvest personal information and track viewer interest. This is essential to protect your customers from many invasions of privacy on the world wide web. All our clients are protected from magic cookies (used to track a viewer), from Java and Active X access to browser and hard drive information, and from usage tracking by I.P. address.

If you represent a business whose employees use the Internet for sensitive political, legal, or market research, a bulk purchase of our services effectively and cheaply masks your on-line corporate activities. No web site can track your ongoing interest or discover information about your corporate identity.

 

URN (Universal Resource Names) Support

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are the foundation of the World Wide Web, and are a vital Internet technology. However, they have proven to be brittle in practice. The basic problem is that URLs typically identify a particular path to a file on a particular host. There is no graceful way of changing the path or host once the URL has been assigned. Neither is there a graceful way of replicating the resource located by the URL to achieve better network utilization and/or fault tolerance. Uniform Resource Names (URNs) have been hypothesized as a adjunct to URLs that would overcome such problems. URNs and URLs are both instances of a broader class of identifiers known as Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).

Our Server supports URN's. You will be able to view site that contain URN's if you are viewing them through us. Note that 99.9% of the ISP are not aware of this new convention and techology. Therefore any click on the links mentioned below will definitely return an error. To view these links, configure your browser to use with us.

For a more detailed, technical information about URN's view this page.

National Laboratories of Advanced Network Resources Web Site: urn:squid.nlanr.net

National Laboratories of Advanced Network Resources Web Site Menu: urn:menu.squid.nlanr.net

National Laboratories of Advanced Network Resources FTP Site: urn:squid-ftp.nlanr.net

National Laboratories of Advanced Network Resources FTP Menu: urn:menu.squid-ftp.nlanr.net