[Tech] Scrambling my IP address
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Traxata
Junior Administrator
The link Trax has provided only gives the possibility to anonymise/proxy web traffic, and possibly only HTTP traffic at that. This is very different to "scrambling your IP address", which isn't feasible for operations you're going to perform day to day.
There are general purpose proxies available but you'll find that the vast majority of them are either restricted access or extremely low performance due to high use.
Technically, I understand that they are legal but due to their nature "open proxies" are often denied access by more technically savvy and/or paranoid administrators because the nature of the traffic that goes through them is more dubious than usual.
If you're looking for secure communications you need to consider encrypted communication (e.g. SSH, HTTPS, SFTP, etc). If you're looking to "hide" yourself on the 'net you should consider more advanced firewalls that, among other things, refuse to return ICMP responses (i.e. you can't ping your machine) or software such as PeerGuardian with an appropriately chosen access control list.
There are general purpose proxies available but you'll find that the vast majority of them are either restricted access or extremely low performance due to high use.
Technically, I understand that they are legal but due to their nature "open proxies" are often denied access by more technically savvy and/or paranoid administrators because the nature of the traffic that goes through them is more dubious than usual.
If you're looking for secure communications you need to consider encrypted communication (e.g. SSH, HTTPS, SFTP, etc). If you're looking to "hide" yourself on the 'net you should consider more advanced firewalls that, among other things, refuse to return ICMP responses (i.e. you can't ping your machine) or software such as PeerGuardian with an appropriately chosen access control list.
Nanor
Well-Known Member
Which I'm assuming will make online gaming an absolute bitch.
Shouldn't think so. Game server are unlikely to need to send you ICMP packets so as long as you've not got PeerGuardian dropping connections for the server you're connected to then you should be fine.
Pubic_Warrior
In Cryo Sleep
just wondering why somebody would want to scramble an IP address.
Crime??
Crime??
I think most people would say privacy.
Personally, I feel the state has no business poking its nose into my business where I'm doing nothing to harm others; the state exists to serve me, the citizen, not the other way around. In the current climate of paranoia, however, the state seems to feel duty-bound to inspect everyone and everything just in case they're a threat. In this scenario, privacy is becoming hard to find and thus we, as citizens, seek means to enforce our privacy.
Unfortunately, the same privacy that protects me from the meddling of the state also hides crime. Troublesome.
Pubic_Warrior
In Cryo Sleep
Nanor
Well-Known Member
So he can hop onto a forum and call everyone noobs repeatedly without him being banned.
thatbloke
Junior Administrator
don't you already do that here?
Nanor
Well-Known Member
Not repeatedly.
Privacy or anonymity? They're two very different things, and having one of them in no way guarantees the other. Though this is possibly a discussion for another thread
