Anonymizer
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Anonymizer, Inc. is an Internet privacy company, founded in 1995 by Lance Cottrell, author of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer. Anonymizer is the oldest and best known Internet privacy company.
Anonymizer offers secure and anonymous services including:
- web proxying
- encrypted email services
- anti-spyware
- anti-phishing / anti-pharming
- enterprise class competitive intelligence tools
Anonymizer was originally named Infonex Internet. The name was changed to Anonymizer in 1997 when the company acquired a web based privacy proxy of the same name developed by Justin Boyan at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. Boyan licensed the software to C2Net for public beta testing before selling it to Infonex.
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See also
- Wikipedia's policy toward anonymous proxies
- Tor (anonymity network)
- The article on on Proxy Servers as a general class of privacy services.
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