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How to hide ip: e-Capsule – The Private Browser

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 04:00 AM PST

After publishing the post about 4 portable browsers that can be used to be navigate anonymously, willdo and kingpin, two constant readers of my blog, let me know about e-Capsule – The Private Browser. Thank you guys! Let’s take a look at it and see how it works.

The e-Capsule Private Browser is a browser characterized by it’s “zero-footprint”. This means that no traces are left by the web browser on the PC, either as temporary files or OS registry values. After you have finished browsing using e-Capsule no one will be able to recover any useful information or data on the session itself.

e-Capsule stores all your temporary Internet data inside of an encrypted file using strong AES256 encryption at the block level (i.e. at the level of the smallest contiguous set of bits or bytes that forms an identifiable unit of data). This implies that information on your web browser session is always protected since it is constantly kept inside of the encrypted profile.

The best feature of the special browser is that it’s able to hide your IP address. e-Capsule can handle all your web traffic using Onion routing (a.k.a. TOR). This will protect you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as “traffic analysis”.

The bad news is related to that fact that the browsing speed in anonymous mode depends on the TOR network. As this not very performant lately, you may expect some slow browsing.

How To Use e-Capsule

After the download the installation is very simple. Then you can start using e-Capsule like you regular browser. The only important difference is that you can anytime switch to anonymous browsing (hide you IP address), as you can see below.