Your location is an important thing. Where you are determines where you will shop for groceries, how much time to allot for such a activities, where your kids will go to school, who will they play with, and a host of other obvious things. Most people don’t think of their location as being something they need to keep a well-kept secret. Perhaps not in real life or from close friends, but on the Internet it is imperative to remain anonymous and undetected. Think about the pedestrian nature of crime on the world wide web, and how unstoppable it has become. There is no attacking or catching the criminals anymore, simply to defend oneself. These criminals enjoy getting your online data, but your real life location is the pot of gold for them.

Think about it, through the knowledge of your home, these criminals could break in and get anything they want. If they have worse intentions, they could break in and kidnap your children. Maybe they are just feeling malicious and wish to do you bodily harm, and your family as well. Either way, the location of your home in real life is a hacker’s dream come true. While getting into your Internet documents is much more feasible for them, and they can get passwords, log-in names, bank account numbers and other miscellaneous pieces of identifying information, in real life, they could crack your safe without having to worry about impersonating you at a bank.

In Illinois, recently a large apartment complex has been the subject of a great debate between every citizen; to be anonymous, or not to be anonymous. An enraged group of tenants in the building were protesting anonymously on a site where a large construction company plans to build a mall and bring many more people in the area. As apartment buildings are usually noisy to begin with, this could bring the noise pollution to unbearable levels, forcing some residents to leave.

While these residents wore masks during their public protest, the construction group has demanded, via court, that they remove the hiding masks and face them face to face. They say this way, they could have an intelligent conversation and assert their beliefs that the mall will help out the crime ridden area by bringing in many more police officers on stringent patrol schedules.

Although they understand the advantages the mall brings, the noise and traffic are too much. The fact that they are demanding a de-anonymity of the protesters upsets them too. While sometimes it is a question in real life, never on the Internet. The loss of anonymity on the Internet can lead to real life location. Using a change IP proxy can stop this from happening by hiding your location giveaway IP address. An IP changer will also ensure you aren’t being tracked by using encryption technology. Don’t fret over your location again, and don’t let any hacker know where you live!

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