Conceal Your Location
Your location (that’s right; in real life!) can be found in many ways. People can search your name on Google and possibly pick up where you live, or they could just take a look in the phone book and find your phone number. These numbers can be traced or perhaps they will just impersonate someone in order to get you to give them your address. This is all pretty common stuff in today’s society. There is one way, and possibly the easiest way, that people don’t realize that can truly compromise your identity.
It comes from the least likely of sources; your computer. Your computer has an IP address, which is like a virtual nametag that includes information such as your browsing history, your location, and possibly an open portal to your hard drive. From your hard drive a hacker could have access to your computer and all of its contents; passwords, bank account numbers, etc. From here a malicious hacker could install a virus to crash your system, and this is all done remotely, and through the IP address.
This has never made sense to privacy advocates; why is the IP address totally public? It’s true, your IP address is completely public and can be seen by anyone. They don’t even need any fancy technology either, as there are readily available technologies and even guides on how to find someone’s IP address. Try it, do a quick Google search!
With this IP address remaining open, you are running a strong privacy risk. Privacy advocates have argued for quite some time as to whether the IP address should be counted as “private information.” This would disable sites from sharing it with third party systems for profit, but right now, it is not private data.
With so many people displeased about their IP address being completely open, and the large amounts of people who actually encountered privacy issues because their IP address was open, somebody decided to do something about it; thus, the change IP proxy was born.
The change IP proxy is actually quite simple in nature. It does as it name suggests; it changes your IP address. This will allow you the safety of being untraceable online and the safety from hackers using your IP address to get into your hard drive and steal any identifying information. An IP changer can also get you around any Internet blocks that may be in place due to an oppressive government, school, or workplace. If an IT department has blocked you from all of your favorite sites, a change IP proxy will allow you to get around this by going an retreiving the site for you; it’ll be as though you never accessed the site, and your computer will keep no record of it.
Although there are many free IP changers, investing in a fee-based one will keep you safe and take the worry out of possibly losing your information to an unsecured server. Change your IP and never worry about a hacker getting you again.
