Protecting your Privacy with an IP Changer
Keeping everyone’s information safe, secure, and confidential is a tough task to do. Think about it; securing every little piece of data that goes through a public network, and then having to share it with only certain privileged individuals while still barring others. Then this must be done for each user. This is a lot of work, but this is why ISPs are paid major bucks and many people use privacy software on top of that. While adults seem to be pretty safe, it seems as though hackers prey on children’s information. The information is usually public, published by schools, parents, etc. and easy to access.
A school in Illinois was having a big problem with kids skipping class and being truant, and the teachers weren’t cracking down on it. The only punishment these kids would receive is a possible phone call to parents, but if the parents didn’t answer, the teachers didn’t even bother to leave a voicemail. Since the school gets a little bonus money if they have kids coming to school on a consistent basis, and since public schools are always tight on money, they decided to do something about this blatant insubordination. The school board and teacher’s assistants decided to post daily sections in the newspapers about kids who skipped class. This would embarrass them and make the public keep an eye on them and get them to go back to school.
While this sounds like a noble idea and the parents of the town totally supported it, it represented a huge privacy risk to the students. Even though they were doing something illegal and hurting their futures, they still do not deserve to have their picture, phone number and other pieces of personal information printed out and propagated to the townspeople via a widely read newspaper. With this information a stalker could come to their house, call them incessantly or just take their picture and meddle with it to create something embarrassing. Sounds like a harsh punishment for playing a little game of hooky if you ask me. Turns out, the school wasn’t able to do this due to harsh bites from privacy advocates about the children’s safety; they said teachers just need to step up and do their job.
Although it would be someone’s worst nightmare to have all of this stuff leaked to something as public as the town newspaper, it can happen to millions of people right over the Internet. The problem is, most people have a false sense of security through their stock virus scanner and mal ware programs that come installed (sometimes improperly) on their computers. Hackers can easily get through this though, and these people need to actually invest in something. An IP changer will ensure that you browse anonymously through a secure tunnel of access. Encryption services will actually encode all of your data too, so if a hacker was to get in, they would only find an incoherent pile of information mush.
Lauren Grozzo Says:
While keeping everyone’s information safe and secure is an important thing to do, it is a shame many companies and organizations do not do so. Think about these schools; it is a great idea that they wish to do something about attendance, because this is a big problem in the United States and just school in general these days; kids just don’t want to go there. Despite their inertia, it is completely necessary that they have some sort of rudimentary education to function in the real world, even if it is just the responsibility of having to go to something every day. While I condone the attendance incentives, publically humiliating these kids will not raise attendance levels, and all it will do is allow these kids to have much more information known by the public than they would want. I don’t know, something about this seems wrong and dangerous. Any information given out should be done so voluntarily and should be completely docile and safe. Otherwise, everything you do and say should pass through a secure tunnel, just like in a well constructed change IP proxy.