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Re: Can I hide my IP (w/o using a proxy)?
said by EGeezer  :If you set your IP address to 127.0.0.0 you can get rid of that pesky identification... Shame on you for suggesting that! Don't you know that there are hackers lurking on the interweb who routinely attack that IP address? 
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lovewomen
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Use a software firewall like ZoneAlarm. There is a setting in Zone Alarm which you can hide your IP address.
said by pvsurfer :Hopefully, this is an appropriate forum for this concern (if not, please advise)... I am behind a Westell 327W wireless router and Verizon is my ISP. I have the router's firewall configured to its 'High' setting, yet it is not hiding my IP address! Consequently, some private information (City, State, Domain, etc.) is out there for all to see. I realize I could hide my IP by using a proxy service, but is there no 'direct' way to hide my IP? Thanks. |
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| said by lovewomen :Use a software firewall like ZoneAlarm. There is a setting in Zone Alarm which you can hide your IP address.
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Mats
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said by lovewomen :Use a software firewall like ZoneAlarm. There is a setting in Zone Alarm which you can hide your IP address. That is not true. |
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I hope I'm not diverting this thread, but I, too, worry *a little bit* about privacy. I haven't wanted to change my IP address, but it seems that advertisers know where I've been and are constantly targeting advertising at the sites I visit based on my IP address.
For example, if I visit a mortgage site, every big ad I see on well-managed sites after that seems to want to sell me a mortgage. I once had a Bose credit card, and it was sponsored by a bank that was also known for it's sub-prime loans. After that, all my other bank sites seemed to offer me only pictures of their happy customers who where from minorities. No majority faces anywhere. (This is neither good nor bad, but it does suggest some sort of profiling, if you will.)
I regularly clean out my cookies, but I feel that there is some tracking of IP addresses and my browsing habits that influences what I see on the web, and that's just a little disconcerting. I'd like to think I'm not paranoid, and I'm not ashamed of where I go on the web, but it just bugs me that there might be a marketing file assembled around my IP address. If that's true, then an anonymous IP address would be nice; kind of like a junk email address.
...or am I all wet about the technology? |
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EGeezer
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Re: Can I hide my IP (w/o using a proxy)?
said by THX 1138 :... I regularly clean out my cookies, but I feel that there is some tracking of IP addresses and my browsing habits that influences what I see on the web, and that's just a little disconcerting ... I also toss my cookies occasionally - 
... an anonymous IP address would be nice; kind of like a junk email address.
Unless you have purchased internet service with fixed IP(s),you have a dynamic IP that will periodically change. Sometimes you can force the change by powering down your modem, or calling your ISP to request they flush the connection and assign another IP from their pool.
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said by lovewomen :Use a software firewall like ZoneAlarm. There is a setting in Zone Alarm which you can hide your IP address. That hides your IP only from ZA Labs ("when applicable").
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said by freedom_rings :
said by BlitzenZeus:
"Unless your trying to do something malicious there is no reason to hide your ip address."
Lol, why don't you just let the police put a camera in your living room then? Your not doing anything wrong, right?
Hey, how 'bout letting your car insurance company put a gps tracking unit in your vehicle too? You never speed or break any traffic rules, right?
Maybe you could be the first candidate for a rf transmitting corneal inplant, so everything you do can be monitored right through your own eyes. After all your completely innocent of any possible wrong doing, right?
I value my privacy and won't be giving it up anytime soon. Just because someone values privacy doesn't mean they have anything to hide. Not everybody wants to sell their soul to the devil, clearly some people just don't give a sh!t though.
That's wonderful.....it's also irrelevant to this thread and the question that was asked.
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Re: Can I hide my IP (w/o using a proxy)?
said by EGeezer :Unless you have purchased internet service with fixed IP(s),you have a dynamic IP that will periodically change. Sometimes you can force the change by powering down your modem, or calling your ISP to request they flush the connection and assign another IP from their pool.
Yes, thanks; that's what I suspected. My home DSL service has dynamic IP addressing, but my computer at work has a static IP address. I sometimes do banking and other online financial chores at work, and that's where I observe this IP address tracking. Sometimes I feel like the banks, credit card companies, utilities, etc. are trying to figure out exactly who I am (marketing-wise), and are assuming that they can tell who I am by the sites I visit. Trouble is...they've got it wrong, as far as I can see. It's made me conscious of the privacy thing, even though I don't think there's anything I can do about it. |
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This comes up so often that I've done a short little writeup on it:
»dmiessler.com/study/hide_ip
Mods: feel free to add it to the FAQ if you find it worthy.
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EGeezer
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| Your pizza analogy is excellent!
But what's pizza without beer? Well, I am reminded of this explanation of DNS cache poisoning.
credit Daniel F. Boyd for his fraud analogy in the above link
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totamak
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Especially when it relies on header information the user can manipulate. Right now it thinks I'm using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows 3.1. |
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said by Daniel :Hiding your IP address on the Internet is much like giving a fake address when you place a pizza delivery order. Sure, you'll trick the other side, but you won't ever get a pizza. What about ordering 65,536 pizzas and having them sent to different addresses, only one of which is yours?  |
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i may not be the sharpest spoon in the knife drawer but i don't see how spam has any thing to with your ip addy only spam i get is in my email which is yahoo msn gmail or snail mail my primary email may get 1 or 2 that gets deleted as soon as they are in my inbox and with firefox i rarely get pop-ups but then again i don't sign up with every porn site that comes my way  |
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M A R K
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I like to hide my IP when trying to visit sites that cant be seen from america.
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There is only one real way of "hiding" your IP address:
Cancel your Internet subscription.
You are going to have to accept the fact that if you wish to communicate in any way on the internet, that your IP address will be communicated with pretty much anything you communicate with.
There are ways to "spoof" your IP address on IRC chats if you have 1) another server or shell somewhere else, 2) know linux and 3) know how to bounce. But even that doesn't really protect you, it just looks nice in some cases.
Deal with it. Or go to the library from now on, reading a book and mailing an actual letter will not leave an IP address anywhere
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torpark browser |
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M A R K
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Why cant he do what i do, i just put a proxy in fire-fox and im all good.
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