Static IP address - how to hide?

Alan_Cross

I'm sure this has been asked before but does anyone here regularly use any proxy server which is simple to use and effective?

AirCooledHeaven

Try this one:

http://www.defilter.co.uk/

You can also buy software that will hide/fake your IP address, such as:

http://www.hide-my-ip.com/

AirCooledHeaven

Gamer wrote: »

hide my ip works well! and you can trial it. Just remember you should only use these for legitimate purposes and not for anything dodgy or illegal!

I imagine the proxy server will log the real IP address and the sites visited anyway so it is not genuinely anonymous...

elvch01

I use TOR router software http://www.torproject.org/

kwikbreaks

AirCooledHeaven wrote: »

I imagine the proxy server will log the real IP address and the sites visited anyway so it is not genuinely anonymous...

The proxy certainly needs to record the IP until after the target server response is return to it. After that there is no absolute need to retain it.

It offers a degree of anonymity as there is an extra link in the chain and that link may well not retain logs for any length of time or disclose them but in the event of serious wrongdoing the ISP log showing the request going to the proxy and the end server log showing the request being received from the proxy could probably be married up.

Some sites block well known proxies. Try posting here through http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/ (probably just an IP block because of past abuse rather than because it is a proxy)

esuhl

The Linux distro Incognito is supposed to be good for anonymous browsing. I believe it uses Tor and some other privacy-related apps.

I heard about it from a report alleging that the Thought Police in China had carted someone away for using it in an Internet cafe...

tweeter

Incognito was appealing for someone to do an benign front end for it so as to fool the thought police there.


"It has been reported that a Chinese political activist was arrested using Incognito in an internet cafe in Shanghai, China, simply because one of its managers saw that something looked different on the screen (the Incognito theme, the use of Firefox or similar) and called for the Chinese thought police."