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Old 06-21-2009, 08:28 PM
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Default Re: My IP address

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Originally Posted by Mr Bogus View Post
do yourself a favor... IF you are going to use a proxy server? DO NOT USE A FREE ONE...

you know that saying.. "you get what you pay for" well there are LOTS of FREE proxy servers and almost without fail, they are "mining" stations.. you can sit there and pull data packets off your "free" proxy server and see what everyone is up too... (user names, passwords, email, and what ever they are trying to hide their ip for in the first place)

In other words, there is NO anonymity on the net... NONE> any one that tells you otherwise is full of crap...
Disagree on a couple of points. Anonymity on the net is a big "it depends", much like anything else dealing with technology. Depending on what you're trying to do you can run willy-nilly all over the net using an IP not tied to you whatsoever. Disagree on the full of crap statement too. Sometimes you're just not the subject matter expert on everything.

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