greenman3
join:2007-02-27
Kenner, LA
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Re: Can I hide my IP (w/o using a proxy)?
Yes, well . . . and then there was the rather well-known Federal Government organization that I once worked for. I was rather astonished to find that my workstation IP was a public IP address and (based on a bit of subsequent investigation) not only visible from the 'net, but fully accessible! What makes it even worse was that this was supposed to be a high-tech Fed organization -- well, that and the fact that my workstation was in their Software Development Center. I decided then and there that, like my hometown, this was a good place to be from -- and immediately. oops, sorry, i didnt realize that was you that i hacked  |
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greenman3
join:2007-02-27
Kenner, LA
| actually this is a somewhat interesting thread.
while i agree that its impossible to be totally invisable, i also see no reason NOT to take basic precautions.
there are people out there that can and will try to get into you machine for one or another reason.
AND, if its hard to get to your machine, and easier to get into someone elses, then the crooks will go looking elsewhere.
And if they want into YOUR particualr machine, then its a matter of how tight your security is VS how bad they want to hack you, and how good a hacker they are.
RElated...
Didnt AOL used to work as a proxy ? i havent used them in like 10 years, but i could swear i remember that |
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jvmorris
I Am The Man Who Was Not There.
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA
| reply to greenman3
said by greenman3  :. . . oops, sorry, i didnt realize that was you that i hacked Gotcha!!! 
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anti_mary555
join:2007-02-12 | reply to pvsurfer
You can use this
»www.privacyconnector.com
It uses VPN server instead of Proxy.
Can hide your IP in all softwares, not just web browsing |
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
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said by THX 1138 :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. You don't get cookies from websites ad servers if you proactively block them. You only get cookies from the sites you want to visit if you are proactive.  You need ad blocking software.
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novaflare
The Dragon Was Here
Premium
join:2002-01-24
Barberton, OH
| reply to THX 1138
said by THX 1138 :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? Profiling happens more on the internet than you think. Many major sites esp banks loan sites etc all do it (for the most part).No matter what any one says other wise profiling is a crazy useful tool. As for the legitimacy of it well you do i do we all do it to a point when we meet some one for the first time. When you walk by some one on the street and they are acxting suspicious dont you at least consider that they might be dangerous? Thats all profiling. This is somethign in our nature thats always been there and it wont be going any where any time soon. Call it a through back to when we lived in caves as cave men or do to learned back in the days when opresion was common place like late bc periods or early ad periods.
Its now in our nature and it will stay we are just adopting for other purposes.
As for the whole hiding your ip address its a waste of time even if you could. The only time i ever used a proxy is when i posted on some old timey hacker news groups. Learned really fast posting with your ip visable was not the best idea. Simply put posted on the old ahm news group and with in hours had a nice little text file on my desk top instructing me to turn off PWS personal web server heres how to do it. I think that was like 3 months after i was online full time. Before the days when a firewall was a absolute must.
Im a irc freak on irc all the time day and night ive seen some really whacked things isps do and i can see why some might want to hide their ips. I mean ffs when your host mask in irc is somenumbers-hametownxxxyx-brtn-jhns.ipaddy.neo.rr.com um yeh i kind of wanted to hide my ip to lol.
Some numbers turned out to be a baddly obscured street address on hametown road brtn barberton jhns jhonson road meanign the router for my connection was on hame town and jhonson road (the corner of to be specific. I live less than a mile from there on rock cut. It would not take much work to find exactly where i live by simply following the live connection. Hell i bet some oen could have used soem minor electronics to pick the damn signal up and trace it strait to me. Ever see a telphone repairman tracking a break in the line? They use this little metal detector looking thing name escapes me at moment. But it reads the tones on the line and they simply move the thing down the line till they find the spot with no tones or missing tones.
I called time warner over this and told them this was not a good thing to be displaying to the net at large. Infact it was not suppose to be showning up like that.
To the op if you have some simmilar thing showing on your ip yeh id be pissed to and i would call your isp and give them the what for.
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foxsteve
Premium
join:2001-12-28
Campbell, CA | reply to pvsurfer
If you are qualified hacker, you can hack a few computers and servers and hide your IP at sending your emails. This kind of proxy may not keep log file - if your qualified... |
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novaflare
The Dragon Was Here
Premium
join:2002-01-24
Barberton, OH
| said by foxsteve :If you are qualified hacker, you can hack a few computers and servers and hide your IP at sending your emails. This kind of proxy may not keep log file - if your qualified... Unless of corse that computer was already infected with nasties that log every thing heh
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