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Re: "Torpark causes the IP address seen by the website " apologies if I wasn't clear. You should really disable both. If you are using firefox you will find it in "options"/ "content"--- just uncheck both boxes.
If you want to test what I'm talking about, just go to the whois page on this website (in the tools area). Try going there through a proxy server with java on, and you will see that it may or may not immediately pick up your real ip address. If it picks up the ip of the proxy, you can then do a second test on that page where it invites you to use the "java applet" to check. If the first test showed your proxy ip, and you still have java on, the second test with the java applet should should show your real ip immediately. If you turn off java in firefox and then try that java applet again, nothing is going to happen, the whois test will be unable to catch your real ip. Simply put, without a zillion dollar tracking setup that the likes of the CIA probably has available, the only thing left to track you when you are using a proxy, is through these small java programs. If java is off, no one will know your ip through a proxy, unless the owner of the proxy server winds up handing it out to a third party.
Finally, in terms of unchecking both java and javascript, you may find that just unchecking one or the other will still protect you on the whois test on this site, however programs can be constructed through either and you should really have both off to be safe. What I do, is I keep one browser on my computer that is specifically for anonymous browsing. No add-ons with that browser, no java, just the absolute basics going through a proxy configuration that I set up and just leave alone so that there are no mistakes made.
hope that helps.
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1 edit | said by robie88:No add-ons with that browser, no java, just the absolute basics going through a proxy configuration that I set up and just leave alone so that there are no mistakes made. No flash player as well I guess... Sound advice, thanx.
EDIT: TorPak has both Java (sun) and Javascript enabled in the browser options.... weird! |
