iGuest 3 Report post Posted October 6, 2004 'Proxies' are not a good way to try and surf 'anonymously'. Obviously, your ISP is going to be aware of everything you do, whether you route through a proxy server or not - afterall, all the data that comes to you has to travel through them first.prolifik, what do you mean that the sys admin can't see what you are browsing? Of course they can. The data has to come from somewhere, and on a local-area network, it is usually from a computer (or a series of computers) that act as the server. Seeing as how a network admininstrator [should] have control of this server, they can therefore track what you are doing, regardless of how many proxies you tunnel through.The only thing that a proxy can really achieve is masking your IP address from servers that you access through that proxy server. For those who don't know, your IP address logged and attached to every post you make on this forum, but is only visible to moderators and admins. Using a proxy would mask this. It more or less works by relaying commands you send it to the destination host (hence the name proxy), so on the server side of things, it appears that the proxy server is accessing the network and not you directly. Still, a lot of proxy servers keep connection and activity logs (only the high-anonymity ones don't - or that's what they say), so you can be traced easily if you try and do anything illegal. Your ISP would probobly sniff you out first anyway if you try and download illegal pornography or whatever it was you people were talking about. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marijnnn 0 Report post Posted October 6, 2004 well, not if u use ssl connection to your proxy. on the site i gave, there are some ssl proxies. the connection with that proxy is ssl, so the info that is sent between them cannot be read.still those proxies have logs so if you'd do something very illegal, they'll have to show those logs to the fbi or whatever so they'll find you for sure.also, a simple traceroute could find you in 1 second :)but if it's just to surf at work to hotmail and other sites, ssl webproxies should do the trick. or you could use the ssh trick explained above. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prolifik 0 Report post Posted October 6, 2004 What i meant was, you don't want them to know what your internet activities are, that's why you want to be anonymous. Yeah they can see what you're browsing but if you use a proxy and your IP address is masked then they can't pinpoint which machine/computer it is, right? Or am i wrong again? Hehehe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hercco 0 Report post Posted October 6, 2004 What i meant was, you don't want them to know what your internet activities are, that's why you want to be anonymous. Yeah they can see what you're browsing but if you use a proxy and your IP address is masked then they can't pinpoint which machine/computer it is, right? Or am i wrong again? Hehehe. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You cannot mask your IP address to the proxy. Proxy has to know your address to work. Anonymizing proxy does what any proxy does, acts as a "middle man" for your traffic to the web, but does not keep logs on its usage making it impossible to trace who was the sender and receiver of the traffic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lxcid 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2004 wad if u connect to a proxy thru a proxy? would it make u more anonymous? or harder to detect? just wondering... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
musichere 0 Report post Posted November 2, 2004 ^Lol never thought about that. The main problem with the free (and paid) proxies from varous website is mostly that they all go down very often, the uptime is rarely above 70% which is feeble. The other problem is that there is about a 5+ seconds delay before the page actually starts loading which is needed to connect to the proxy server. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lhunath 0 Report post Posted November 2, 2004 wad if u connect to a proxy thru a proxy? would it make u more anonymous? or harder to detect? just wondering... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't think that's possible. If you connect to a proxy, you do a HTTP/... request, and the proxy resolves it, and replies to you with the result. The proxy decides what path it follows to obtain the information, not you. Therefore, you only say what -for example- webpage you want to fetch, and the proxy fetches it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted November 2, 2004 I don't think that's possible. If you connect to a proxy, you do a HTTP/... request, and the proxy resolves it, and replies to you with the result. The proxy decides what path it follows to obtain the information, not you. Therefore, you only say what -for example- webpage you want to fetch, and the proxy fetches it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> true... HOWEVER.... wait a minute... why is it that wherever i post... you get here and post just before me ? am i stalking you, or are you stalking a future echo of myself ? anyways, back on topic.... there is this delighfull thing called ssh tunneling ! but to bounce the connection off more than one remote machine, you need command line access to it, preferably ssh.... here's how it works.... create an encrypted tunnel from your local mox to a remote machine with the command..... ssh -L 8080:RemoteHost:RemotePort username@RemoteHost this creates a tunnel, so whenever you connect to your OWN machine (127.0.0.1) on port 8080, it travels though a tunnel to the remote host on the remote poer.... you could then setup anouther tunnel on the remote machine to a second remote machine, and again and again and again. the traffic you send could be made to travel down a series of different tunnels, bouncing all over the place before it reaches its final destination. but you MUST have a valid login account for each machine, and each machine must have (Open)SSH installed, or PuTTY if its a windows box.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lhunath 0 Report post Posted November 2, 2004 Does the windows network module support ssh tunneling, you think? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 Does the windows network module support ssh tunneling, you think? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's a funky little program called PuTTY that allows you to setup ssh tunnels in windows, thats all i know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lhunath 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 PuTTy is an SSH client for windows, it comes with SFTP, SCP, Telnet clients as well, but I don't think it allows for things like these :/ sadly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 PuTTy is an SSH client for windows, it comes with SFTP, SCP, Telnet clients as well, but I don't think it allows for things like these :/ sadly. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png https://g' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_img' /> http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ https://p''>https://p'>http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ https://p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lhunath 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 :)Yeay. Unfortunatelly, since my pc is a mysterious assemblage of unexplicable errors, Linux won't run on it properly, so I'm under Windows Server 2003 Enterprise. Using VMWare to get into Gentoo, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
almoo7 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2005 Hmmmm, you can use a software like Steganos Internet Anonymous(uses a set of proxies too so it might slow down your connection). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted September 24, 2005 You can find free proxies from h++ www.proxy4free.com/ I tried using these proxies, and I was rather unsuccessful. They masked my proxy address but they showed my IP addrress! I did not have this problem when working with tor. Tor is described in another post on this forum : tor worked fine, it started an anonymizer program on my own pc, and I could surf anonymously as seen from https://www.whatismyip.com/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
