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Rotating IP Addresses vs Static IP Addresses

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:52:44 +0000

Recently we added static IP addresses to our Anonymous Proxy software. This is in addition to the randomly changing IP addresses that our anonymous proxy already offered.

So why would we insert static IP addresses? It would appear that randomly rotating IP addresses would include an extra layer of obscurity. So why make use of static IP addresses? The solution is relatively simple, although I will acknowledge was not obvious to us when we first designed the application. The key reason to employ static IP addresses instead of randomly changing ones is to include some level of consistency when visiting the same site over and over again. While typically you would suppose that you would not need to be identified through your IP address, now and then you do.

Think about your Internet banking. If you attempt to access your online bank account from randomly changing IP addresses, it might seem to the bank that someone is trying to hack into your savings account. Hence the need for static and constant IP addresses.

But this is not only about web banking. It is also about consistency for any site where you intend to keep a profile. Even if you are trying to keep an anonymous profile, it still helps to be consistent.

None of this means that randomly rotating IP addresses are a bad suggestion. They still offer that extra layer of ambiguity. And you should still use the rotating IP addresses when you are trying to stay anonymous when you are surfing the web.

Government Using Cloud Computing

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:40:14 +0000

Cloud computing is a recent online phenomenon, now utilized by pretty much every agency and business in the United States. While the premises of the plan and system sound promising, it actually holds a lot of security issues and other problems.

We’ll start off with the positives though. Cloud computing is the practice of storing the information in a “cloud” rather than on a hard drive or computer. These clouds usually refer to some place on the Internet. For example, rather than storing all of its clients profiles, passwords, user names, etc. on their personal servers, social networking sites like MySpace or FaceBook could simply save all of the information on the Internet. This eliminates much of the cost of securing and encrypting the information themselves, which allows the site to keep more of its revenue, and possibly add more features as it sees fit. Another thing to consider is the ergonomics of such a system; rather than storing the required information on a huge expanse of many computers, the information and data could be stored on maybe one computer, using about half of the space, as half is directly put to the Internet.

Now we’ll examine the downsides, and the detriments are much more prevalent than the positives. Instead of the information being stored on their own computers, these sites and companies now store them on the Internet in cloud computing. Think about the security risks of this; if you keep your car in a random parking lot to conserve space in your garage, how safe do you think your car will be? Likely, you could come back to visit your car to find that everything has been stolen out of it; or if you are quite unlucky, perhaps the car isn’t there at all anymore. The principles are the same, these companies’ are leaving the information much more unprotected when they don’t secure them themselves. Who knows who is actually securing, let alone encrypting these servers? These massive conduits could be being hacked by just about anyone, and this is what has seemed to happen.

Now even our government is storing their information of national security on these clouds. While it is an economical practice, we need to be careful about what kind of information is stored there. Any mundane boring stuff can be filed away unchecked in the cloud computing system, but anything of value or a threat to one’s security should be kept safe and secure.

Since the average person has no say in where their data goes and how well it is encrypted, or who tries to hack it, you have to be proactive and seek the power to do so from outside sources. Using a change IP proxy server can keep you safe and anonymous on the Internet. This anonymous browsing can actually encrypt your data, so at least you can make sure your information is safe. Using an IP Changer can preemptively eliminate many privacy issues you can face online.

Can we be too safe online?

Martin Greif — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:31:02 +0000

Being too safe, it seems like a contradictory concept in today’s civilization. How can one be too safe in these days of economic hardship, impending threats of terrorism, and more nuclear firepower than we know what to do with; we could probably blow up the entire galaxy with our combined stockpiles. It has even permeated to the social aspects of our lives: at one point in the idyllic fifties perhaps young kids were allowed to roam free and play parking lot baseball until dinner time, a period of about fifteen minutes where all kids would be scurrying home to avoid missing curfew. This curfew was only imposed because the rest of the family didn’t want to wait on the rambunctious youth while they succulent food got cold; it did not cross their minds that perhaps a child predator would be sweeping the streets once the streetlights illuminated, looking to abduct their kid. These kids did not have cell phones either, the radio and the television were opulent luxuries that not everyone enjoyed, and featured no communication abilities either. These parents relied on and trusted their kids, and the neighborhood or social establishment to run them home before dark. No one knew anything about cell phones, and certainly if anyone did have such a thing, it would not be in the interest of a child to lug the old “brick” around while engaging in the suburban ball games.

These days every child carries a cell phone, and is on call everywhere they go. For what purpose? Society seems to have tried to obfuscate the matter by making a cell phone something important in the cultural zeitgeist; even the old calling features have become obsolete with the new text messaging capabilities of these micro-computers. These devices have cameras installed, music players, you name it, some cell phone has it. This takes away the fear and anxiety that every parent feels, and instead of making the phone seem like a security tool to the naive child, it is now just a hip fashion accessory.

This is necessary in today’s society though, as child predators and other menaces run rampant. Each day sensationalistic reports come on of another child abducted over MySpace. So are we being too protective? One would argue no, but perhaps we are being a bit too invasive. At what point do we stop: trusting the child is being safe online, or voyeuristic-ally checking their social networking page.

While that answer is a bit ambiguous, you can never be too safe with your own documents. The Internet is where these predators are now, and you need to find a way to hide from them. Enter the change IP proxy; this protective tool will change your IP address, making you untraceable online, and making sure no one is following you. A change IP proxy is easy to run and the ultimate repellent for these vermin crawling the web looking for prey. Rest assured, with your IP address masked, you will never be their victim.

Change IP and be anonymous on the Internet

Martin Greif — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:11:24 +0000

Most everyone person who has a computer these days (and who doesn’t?) probably is on some type of social networking site. What was once deemed a silly fad that narcissistic children engaged in is now a world wide phenomenon. People use these services to communicate, post pictures, post information, and most importantly, create their own personalized profile. There are a multitude of sites to use also. Most people only commit to one, (MySpace, FaceBook, Xanga, etc.) but some people will have multiple sites to upkeep with multiple sets of friends. While these sites have good intentions of bringing people together and giving them a place to congregate, there are people who spoil it for everyone.

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First of all, these people wouldn’t be able to spoil it if everyone simply checked their privacy options when they loaded up the site. Just as people click “I accept” blindly on the terms of service agreements, they also overlook their privacy settings. These extra features could allow random people not to send virus filled messages to them, or people who aren’t their friends to access their profile. Oftentimes, even to send a friend request, you must know some personal detail about the person that only a real friend would know. This stops impersonators from pretending to be someone else and making the victim think they are friends. This is all great but useless, no one uses it or even knows it exists.

Also, people need to start reading their terms of service agreements. These are often pretty basic, and just say stuff about no copyright infringement, and other legal stuff, but sometimes they hide insidious information in their banal text. For example, when one logs onto the “Cash For Clunkers” website to try and get some extra money for their old beater cars, in the terms of service agreement neatly packed in where no one can read, is that once logged in, your computer is property of the United States government and can be accessed anytime even after logging off of the site for any information they want. That was something you didn’t want to miss before hitting accept!

While that is a pretty extreme example, there are things like this in every terms of service agreement. If it isn’t total computer control, then it is the unbreakable and inescapable ability to sell your private information that was acquired directly from your hard drive to third party advertisers for a profit that you don’t join in on. Instead, all you get is a bunch of incessant ads that are supposed to be tailor made to your needs, and you will probably spend a lot more money.

Change your IP address to get rid of these risks. A change IP proxy can make you anonymous and safe on the Internet. While it can’t stop you from posting your social security number on your FaceBook page, it can make it harder for people to track you online. By changing your IP, you are completely anonymous and invisible while online.

Change IP and Protect your Online Identity

Martin Greif — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:13:23 +0000

Everyone knows how difficult it can be to find a job. There is so much competition, and so much criteria you have to meet. It is common knowledge and a sad truth that if you don’t have a college degree, you will have trouble finding any job that will make you decent money. In a little while, your Bachelor’s degree might become obsolete! Think of all of the people you have to run up against too; there will always be that one over qualified person who sets the bar so high no other prospective employee can even try and compete. Maybe you are that employee, but somebody below you has connections with the boss and hiring staff, and you get pushed out of a position you really deserved. These problems are especially lucid in today’s society and our rapidly diminishing economy. Jobs are few and far between, and the people who aren’t getting laid off are holding onto their jobs for dear life; there won’t be many places hiring or looking for newcomers to start there.

Those of you who have tried to get a job know the process is quite long and extensive. First, and probably the most difficult aspect of all in today’s job market, you have to find something that you are not only skilled in, but have a solid interest in. After all, if all goes well, you will have this job until the day you retire, and if you don’t like it and it is just a paycheck, you will not be a happy person. The best feeling is when you absolutely love your job and are getting paid for doing it. It is like getting paid for pursuing a hobby! After you find this job, then you have to begin the process of applying, and that is if they are even hiring. Many places have met their employee quotas and are more comfortable staying with old and faithful workers than new ones, even if their credentials are better. After you apply, you have to sit for a highly austere interview. These can be intimidating, and might actually turn some of from the company in general. The interview might seem nerve wracking, but if you just be yourself and monitor what you say (put yourself in the best light) you will have an excellent shot at getting the job you want. After you pass this step, or maybe in the middle of it, you have to undergo the worst thing about getting a job: the background check.

This background check is a major invasion of privacy and can be very harmful for your application if even the slightest thing is found. There are some pieces of information you just don’t want to share or for people to know. While you can’t hide from your boss, you certainly can secure the base of information, your computer, from outsiders and interlopers. Don’t allow someone to do an unauthorized and rogue background check on you; use a change IP proxy and change your IP so you can stay hidden. With an IP changer, you cannot be tracked and no one can uncover any details of your life from your computer.

Why a Change IP Proxy Makes Sense

Martin Greif — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:45:09 +0000

When you buy a computer, you get a bunch of stuff thrown in to increase the chances of a sale. The salesman will usually say that you get a free desktop download, free Internet for a year, free virus protection software, and if they are feeling really ambitious and looking for a sale, they will throw in a free printer. It’s no secret that the stuff they throw in isn’t going to be the nicest or the most expensive in any way, but at least you got something free. This stuff, while usually just being a sales incentive, is actually a good way to get yourself started on Internet protection and privacy, but this is where most people make their fatal mistake.

They get home, excitedly unwrap their new computer, install all of the extra stuff the salesman gave them, and boot it up. Laying off to the side of the mess is the virus program, totally uninstalled and neglected. After being online for months and months, checking spam emails, going on MySpace and FaceBook, they notice their new computer starting to slow down. Well, its not quite new anymore they think; perhaps this just happens when you use computers. After drudging around on their slow computer for a while, they finally reach the catharsis; computer crash. After getting a new computer, the salesman urges the user to install the virus software. Finally, giving in, the downtrodden Internet surfer decides to upload the basis virus protection. They surf for many more months, and the computer is fine. One day though, while checking their online banking statements, the user notices his balance has diminished to an infinitesimal amount overnight. After calling his bank, he asserts he wasn’t the one that made this in exorbitant withdrawal. They deactivate his account and set up a sting to catch the crook. After getting him trying to bring out more money from the user’s account, they ask him how he broke in. Simple he answers, this guy had no protection.

This is about nobody in specific, but nearly everyone can relate to an incident such as this one. The point is, a stock computer and virus system just won’t cut it in today’s world of almost N.S.A. skilled hackers. While the system might be able to thwart small time viruses sent to you in malicious emails, it stands no chance and provides no protection against a skilled human hacker.

To protect yourself, you are going to need something more powerful. For just a couple of dollars a month, you can invest in an anonymous proxy or a change IP proxy that will ensure that no one will get into your computer ever again. Both types of proxies offer high bit encryption services, which encodes the data that hacker use to get into your sensitive documents to the point where it looks like hieroglyphics. Using a proxy server will ensure that you are browsing anonymously through a secure tunnel of access.

Change IP and Protect your Internet Privacy

Martin Greif — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:10:48 +0000

Internet privacy is one of the most important things you can consider. Think about it; people worry about their house being broken into all of the time. Consider a robber, they don’t just stroll up and down a street late at night and pick a house at random from the many on the block; they do their homework. These robbers will plan and scheme for hours, gathering the right people, finding a good target, and doing some reconnaissance on the target in order to find accessible points of entry. We’ve all seen it in heist-movies: the criminals are not haphazard in the way they plan and execute. They will use a variety of ways to find a good point of entry into the house, and there are a variety of ways.

In today’s technological age, everything is done completely on computers. While school, work, and entertainment first come to mind, crime is on that list as well. As was said before, criminals don’t operate like they used to. Think about terrorism for example. While car bombs and other barbaric means of violence are still prevalent, so is the practice of trying to hack into the United States’ computers, to find weak points in our border.

This is also how criminals work. Everyone has an IP address which is tied to their computer. Each one is unique, and can be used to find useful information. This “useful information” is not useful to any normal person though, but a criminal would love it.

Worse yet, if you are traveling and using your laptop on free wireless network, you can be hacked. They can get into your hard drive. All of these criminals can now just hack into someone’s open IP address, and after accessing the portal to their life, they could possibly hijack the computer. After getting into the computer, they could review web histories, check a daily planner, and read online messages.

Don’t let this happen to you; protect your privacy online. There are many ways to do so, but using a change IP proxy is the most effective. The change IP proxy can protect your IP, so that no hacker can break in and learn anything about you. It can keep you from being tracked online as well. This is the best way to keep yourself safe and anonymous while online.

Government Surveillance

Martin Greif — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:21:20 +0000

The government, and how good it is, has always been a point of contention among debaters and politically minded. The government is an instrument of protection, a diplomatic way of associating with other nations, and a way keeping the peace.

There is another side though described by the anti-government group. They would argue that the reason the Puritans broke away from their mother nation of England is because the king was ruling them with an iron fist, and this stifled their happiness. So after escaping, they wrote up the Constitution, which included strict rights the American people are granted upon citizenship or birth. They say that the government tries to take some of these away, in a corrupt greed for power and control over its citizens, just like England did to us many years ago.

While both sides are simply have opinions, they both hold valid points. First of all, it is easy to see that the government’s primary goal is to ensure and protect the safety of its nation’s people. This is evident on the 911 attacks. Even though the nation did everything they could to keep terrorism to a minimum, it turns out that some crucial figures broke through our defenses and hit us where it hurt. Many people lost their lives in the twin tower massacre, and the ripple effect could be felt in every household. Although we were tough on security before, things got even more intense after 911.

There were many new acts to come into effect after the attacks, but one was by far the most important and notorious: the Patriot Act. This act pretty much said that the government can snoop on anything you do provided they are doing so in the name of national security.

While you can’t hide from the government, you can hide from hackers. A change IP proxy will enable you to remain anonymous and safe while online. While the government can’t read your data stream when you use a change IP proxy that has encryption, they can still subpoena the proxy company to get your data.

Security Online For All

Martin Greif — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:57 +0000

In today’s world of computers, information, and high speed connections, the Internet can be quite an overwhelming place sometimes. Imagine the possibilities; millions of sites, millions of users, millions of opportunities. The Internet is a place of opportunity for business people, relaxation for ordinary citizens, and expression for a social network surfing teenager. Most of the sites that you visit have good intentions and are safe. You can be assured that you will never get a virus from logging onto Google and doing a quick search. There are many other websites that are not so safe though; some are actually dedicated to luring you in with lucrative content, and then stealing your data or simply crashing your computer. With this data, they could steal your identity, find your location in real life, and a host of other bad things. Just from your Internet files, they could find your password to your online banking and go in and make huge withdrawals, and you wouldn’t notice until the huge bill for your tiny bank account at the end of the month. Unfortunately, you may not know they have found your real life location until it is too late. There are ways to avoid these problems though, and you certainly don’t have to succumb to a hacker’s evil methods and tactics.

First of all, notice the lock icon in the bottom right corner of your screen when you visit some sites. When this icon is not present, your information is completely open and unsecured and will float through the Internet air like gossamer, just waiting and asking a computer criminal to take hold and use it for malicious intention. This lock means the site is encrypted, and this means all of your data is scrambled so that if intercepted, it would look like a big pile of useless mush to the interloper.

Next, don’t believe the widespread fallacy that deleting an object from your computer deletes it. This simply puts it in to your recycle bin, and from here it can be totally deleted. Until then, it is fully restorable and is often done so, as this is much overlooked by most computer users.

One more important thing to consider is the elusive privacy policy. You know, the thing you click accept to without even reading it? Some of these are mundane and pretty basic, but some hold some more insidious notes.

The best thing to do for Internet safety though is to use a change IP proxy. This will change your IP address, thus hiding you from the rest of the Internet; no one can harm you if they don’t know you are there! An IP changer will also bolster your encryption “lock” services to a much higher bit, which will make it even harder to crack.

Incognito On The Internet

Martin Greif — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:22:15 +0000

The Internet is a place where anonymity is completely necessary. A place where you interact with so many different people from all over world has to be, due to its nature. What makes it even worse is the fact that so much information is flowing from your computer and the rest of the Internet at all times, and much of it is completely unsecured. If you ever see a little yellow lock in the bottom right of your screen, you will see that that site is encrypted. You don’t see that on any site except banking, so you are pretty much unprotected all of the time.

There has always been a negative stigma attached to staying anonymous. Staying anonymous doesn’t mean you have something to hide though, it simply means you care about your safety in the treacherous Internet landscape. Hackers prey on those who are unprotected, and it is easy for them to discern who is and who isn’t. For one, they first check the IP address. If the IP address is showing and not hidden, they will strike. Your IP address is a portal to all aspects of your Internet life, your browsing history, your sensitive information, and even your hard drive. Hackers don’t even need any special technology to see your IP address, it is completely public.

This IP address being public has baffled many for quite some time. It is such a hazard to have public, yet anyone can see it. Thus, the change IP proxy was born. The proxy does as it name suggests; changes your IP. This defeats the privacy problem, it allows you to surf the Internet completely anonymous too.

The Change IP proxy actually allows you to change the IP address and use the one of the proxy. The best proxy servers can actually make it appear you are in a different country! These also often offer encryption services too, which encodes all of your data so that you cannot possibly be hacked, even by the N.S.A.

There is a legal battle going on right now about the legality of being anonymous in petitions and surveys. Petitions, they say, should be made public so that the people who signed are known to be true and not just made up by the protesters to seek change. Surveys do so because then they can’t just make up positive results they want by making up random fake alibis. This battle could extend to the Internet, but as of now, being anonymous is free and a great thing to do. Change your IP and be safe on the Internet today.