[pchelpers] Re: ip address

Hi,

Monday, July 21, 2008, 4:50:36 PM, Re-Na wrote:

GRH>       Anonymous Proxy Servers

Often called "anonymizing proxies".

You should consider the possibility that they anonymizing proxy may
itself be a privacy issue. For example, it was announced last year
that there's no reason that a TOR (The Onion Router) proxy must be
benevolent; such a proxy, if malicious, could have access to much of
the data passing through the network. I don't know if that issue has
been resolved or not, but I suspect that it has been. Another problem
is that the proxy that you directly connect to could be malicious.

The purpose of HTTPS connections is to keep malicious sites that your
data passes through from seeing your data; anonymizing proxies
explicitly prevent this from happening, in order to prevent the site
at the other end from knowing what your personal IP is.

Thus, you probably do not want to log on to your bank through an
anonymizing proxy.

Consider: if an anonymizing proxy is free, how do they pay for their
service? I'm sure that many are free, out of the goodness of their
heart (and have money to cover expenses), or have advertising, but
others surely are not.

-- 
Scott.



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