I just read this whole thread, because it sounded like a wet teenage dream.
Man, was I disappointed... ;)
Seriously, NONE of the suggested sites nor features will help anyone in
anonymizing data.
For instance, let's take covertsurfer.com: It would not be my personal first
choice regarding anonymity, to put it mildly.
They ask you to install a programme on your computer that you don't know what
is.
Secondly, noone seems to have done a simple 'netstat -an' (same command on *nix
and win32) while running this unknown programme.
And what about the DNS? Where is it going? To covertsurfer.com...?
They are sucking you for every bit of personal and demographic information,
just to make a few bucks selling it to third-parties.
And you get double taken by paying for it!
Please, guys, please...
To try to answer the original question: yes you can, by choosing an ISP that delivers a DHCP service. In that manner you'll have a new IP every time you start your
computer. Otherwise, forget it.
If you want to mask your local IP, you should look into a proxy server or something similar. As a proxy server usually runs on a separate system on your local network,
this will take another computer to establish, but it will also add security to your personal system, whatever operating system you might use.
Best regards
Ben Dover ;)
Winterlight wrote:
I know there are a few IT gurus in HWG so if there is a way to do this,
you guys will know it.
Is there a way to repeatedly mask your real IP address with another
random one, that changes every time you log into the same site. To
clarify... a site tracks visitors by IP addresses. You log on but mask
your real IP address and display another one that is randomly chosen
,every time you log into a web site. So you could log into the same site
numerous times in a day, each time with a new IP address. It can be a
free way or a paid way to do it.
thanks
