Why do I need to surf with anonymous proxy?
<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040d4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Why do I need to surf with anonymous proxy?</B></FONT> | <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why do I need to surf with anonymous pro"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Whats my IP?"><U>What's my IP#?</U></A> | <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Anon4Proxy setup and configuration"><U>Anon4Proxy setup and configuration</U></A> | <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Adding proxys"><U>Adding proxy's</U></A> | <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Checking you proxies."><U>Checking you proxies.</U></A> | <B>Why do I need to surf with anonymous proxy?</B> | <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Basics of Browsing "><U>The Basics of Browsing </U></A> | <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Using Windows washer to get rid of histo"><U>Using Windows washer to get rid of history files</U></A> | <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mailbag"><U>Mailbag</U></A> | <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related Links</U></A> | <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A></div> <div> Why do I need to surf with anonymous proxy?</div> <div> Surfing with an anonymous proxy server has advantages. </div> <div> First of all, if your IP can be read and traced back to your PC easily, you are a <I><B>target</B></I>. Every web site you visit has the capability of logging your 'true' IP. Not everyone feels comfortable about this, <I>I know I don't</I>. Secondly, if your IP is easily traced back to your computer, you are presenting a target for every two bit kiddy-scripting wannabe hacker out ther, not to mention the dedicated hacker and any three letter alphabet soup agency that for whatever reason wants to keep track of you. Just how much of a target do you want to be? Ultimately, that is the question.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Okay, now I'm surfing anonymously. Now I'm bullet proof right?</B></div> <div> Wrong! I hate to put it to you like this, but you are not now, nor will you ever be '<I>bullet proo</I>f'. By surfing via anonymous proxy, you are making things more difficult to be tracked on the web.</div> <div> When you log onto a proxy server, your movements are logged. They know your true IP, they know what <U>sites</U> were visited and they know when you logged off from their server.</div> <bR> <div> <B>So what is the sense of surfing with anon proxy if every site I visit is logged whether I am surfing direct or with a proxy???</B></div> <div> That goes back to the prior question.<I> Just how much of a target do want to be?</I> Surfing via anon proxy gives you some advantages if you will learn to take the proper steps and develop preventative safe surfing techniques. Let me explain.</div> <div> 1. All internet servers keep activity logs, whether they are your direct server or a proxy.</div> <div> 2.These logs are <B>not</B> kept indefinitely. The legnth of times these logs are kept vary from server to server but the average is about two weeks.</div> <div> 3. If you choose a proxy server that crosses as many socio/political borders as it does geographical, it works in your favor. Let's say, for instance, you live in the United States. If you were to find and use a proxy server in China (A country that has poor politacal ties to the U.S. and will offer little or no cooperation to governmental agencies from the U.S.) you have by best accounts chosen a proxy server that will not in anyway cooperate with any investigation in a timely enough manner to be of use befor those logs are overwritten. In other words, no evidence could be gathered.</div> <div> 4. You can be sure that you will not be the only person surfing via <B>that</B> proxy. It will take time to go through the logs and match your surfing habits definitively. It will be hard, it will not be impossible. The idea, again, is to make things as difficult as possible to be traced. The harder you make it, the more likely it will be that another easier target will be found, one that requires little effort.</div> <div> 5.Possibly the best piece of advice that can be given is to refrain from drawing attention to yourself. Stay away from sites that are heavily advertised as something too good to be true and trust your instincts.</div> <div> 6.Don't go to sites you do not know and trust implicity that will require you to let down any part of your security perimeter. Some sites require java to load. If you know and trust the site without hesitation, fine! Go ahead. Accept java, java-scripting active-x and cookies. If you do not know for a <I>fact</I> that the site is safe, don't do it. Keep your security perimeter intact, it is the only thing that stands between your PC and a hacker (<B>or worse</B>).</div> </td> </tr></table></body>