[noCensorship] Re: Shake It Up!
- From: Vickie <redt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nocensorship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 01:30:17 -0500
Okay if it doesn't necessarly hide your id what is the purpose of using them
and how do you test them? I seem to be getting more lost than I was.
Vickie
----- Original Message -----
From: "wayne" <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <nocensorship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: [noCensorship] Re: Shake It Up!
> > From: Vickie <redt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [noCensorship] Re: Shake It Up!
> > To: nocensorship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Oh you would have to set it everyday?
>
> Actually setting it is a one-time thing - it should stay there
> until you change it.
> You'd normally wait until it fails or gets slow, then look for
> another one.
> Anonymous proxies (see below) should be tested often for your own
> safety.
>
> > Okay. And I know it is suppose to
> > hide your idenity right?
>
> Not normally.
> For that, you need a special proxy that doesn't pass
> your IP address to the web site. You should also turn off the
> active stuff in your web browser to be sure.
> To find such a proxy:
> 1) Lists of anonymous proxies are posted on the net periodically.
> 2) Or you can run through the lists posted here recently with (say)
> statProxy.
> 3) Or test each one by hand on the proxy test web sites
> that exist on the net.
>
> > It will show the ip of the proxie you went
> > through. Okay if I sent an e-mail through a proxie would my ip be hide.
>
> Err ... you mean a web-based email site like hotmail?
> If hotmail, the answer is *no*. Hotmail adds your IP address to the
> email headers it sends. I don't use hotmail, but it's entirely
> possible that the address they add is your real address. They
> didn't do that last time I looked, but you couldn't rely on it
> staying that way. If the proxy you use is an anonymous one, then
> they could only add the proxy address, of course.
> Hotmail also goes into a secure mode for one page during the login,
> so whatever proxy you used would need to be tested for anonymity
> in that mode too.
>
> I would not trust hotmail for this kind of thing.
> Most others don't do this.
>
> If you really want email anonymity, google for 'anonymous remailers'.
>
> > When I was trying to do it I emailed myself and it still had my ip in
the
> > headers or either I didn't do it right.
>
> Good! That's the way to find out.
> Try some other email services.
> Try with an anonymous proxy.
>
> > Or maybe that just goes for hiding
> > your ip on websites.
>
> You still need an anon proxy.
>
> > I think using a proxie would be great if I could learn
> > how to do it.
>
> The tricks are mainly in testing them.
> If you rely on other people's lists, then you find most don't work,
> and you will never know when an anon proxy suddenly becomes non-anon.
>
> If you tell us what kind of firewall you have there, we could give
> you a few which work now, to play with. What proxy ports have you
> been able to use? Do you need a proxy at all?
>
> > Vickie
>
> You also asked:
> > From: Vickie <redt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [noCensorship] Re: Proxy config and UAE-dialup transparent
proxy (was:
> > Re: Re: Shake It Up!)
> > To: nocensorship@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I remember I set it through outlook express. Is that what you mean?
> > Vickie
>
> Ahah!
> I don't use it, but it's possible there is a way to get to the
> Windows settings from there. The normal way would be to use IE and
> go into tools|internet settings|connections|etc. Or (IIRC) the control
> panel 'internet options'.
>
> If you set it in OE while you had an IE window open, then exited
> OE, it might be that the IE window rewrites it's idea of the proxy
> back to the registry when it is closed. That would overwrite any
> changes you made in OE. To be sure, close eveything except one IE
> window,update the proxy, close IE, open IE and check it's still
> there. It will also be used by OE after that.
>
> --
> wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://proxytools.sourceforge.net/
>
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