on 12-5-04 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you really really really want to obfuscate your public IP, thenroute yourself thru several open-proxy servers. That way the IP the destination (eg: Yahoo) sees has nothing to do with you. Of course, you pay a serious performance penalty for doing this, but...
I'm curious: isn't using *one* anonymous server enough?
Sometimes it is, for you folks that just really want to obfuscate. But that doesn't get you to that really really really level. That one goes to Eleven.
By that I mean: if you use just one anonymous server, and "someone" requests their logs, you can be fairly easily traced.
You've got the right idea. To prevent the person running the proxy server from tracking you, you need to use multiple proxies. And you really need to know (trust) who controls the first one in the chain.
Are there technical reasons for using more than one anonymous server?
Really more political than technical, I guess.
Proxies come in three basic flavours:
1) The big fast proxy/cache engine your ISP runs. Creates some anonymity to the destination, but none at all at the origination. The caches are great late-night reading for Admins!
2) Random end-user PCs. Slow upstreams. Most are proxies because they're virally hijacked - so they're controlled by an unknown remote hax0r and/or anyone else smart enough to read viri code.
3) The "off shore" machines. Fast and easy to use. But by all accounts, run by various intelligence agencies. hummmmmmm.
Who do you trust? That depends on the level of paranoia, er a security "required"...
- Dan.
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