Secure IP Changer for Overseas Deployment
More and more US Military Personnel based overseas have found anonymous surfing to be the solution for complete anonymity. However, there are dangers that anonymous surfers should realize and should be very careful with.
Many IP changers that are used for anonymous surfing do not encrypt data. This means that important information such as logins, passwords, and credit card numbers could be recorded and could be leaked by a proxy server.
This is where the concept of encryption becomes very important. By definition, “encryption refers to algorithmic schemes that encode plain text into non-readable or cyphertext, providing privacy.”
Encryption used to be largely used by the military alone, but today, it has become indispensable because of the rapid growth and development of the Internet. It is now used as one of the most reliable tools to achieve some level of security on the Internet.
For encryption to be reliable, according to the present standards, it has to be 128-bit, or greater. It used to be that the 64-bit encryption was acceptable. For sure, there will be stiffer standards for stronger encryption in the future. This is because the sophistication level of decrypting information also “improves”. When text is encrypted, it would be impossible to intercept useful information while it travels between computers. Anyone who would “listen” to this traveling information will only “hear” unreadable gibberish.
This is why US Military Personnel should always surf anonymously. To maintain security, they should know the advantages of using encryption whenever they are overseas, especially with their personal emails. Since emails could contain valuable and classified information, they should be as secure as possible.
There are encryption programs that feature plug-ins or interfaces specifically provided for email clients, one of those is called PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). This is a very strong military-grade encryption program. Anyone who uses PGP could have the security not only in encrypting email messages, but for their personal files and folders.
Security through email encryption is fast becoming very popular. However, it must be realized that although encryption makes data private, it does not necessarily make it secure. Security is achieved through the use of digital signatures of certificates which the user should approve. Because of this, the sender should carefully choose the recipient of the data – one that they trust.
Encryption eliminates the possibility for anyone to randomly intercept and read information that is passed on the Internet. This should be supported with the careful choice of web sites where important personal information that they provide cannot be stolen. So, no matter in which part of the world US Military Personnel is deployed, with encryption, they can enjoy anonymous surfing, send and receive emails, and feel safer accessing the Internet.
