If you want to protect your Identity and Privacy online then learning how to hide your IP address and surf by proxy is a very smart move. Unfortunately the privacy and secure browsing industry is full of extremely insecure, overpriced software. There's even the added irony that much of the 'secure' software is actually worse than using nothing at all!

How to Hide My IP Address

Ok this is not terribly hard, your IP address is the one thing online that connects you to your computer. Your internet service provider can supply exact details of who is using a particular IP address at any time. This means that anyone using the internet can be tracked or traced from any website they visit from their IP address.

If you start researching how to hide my ip address the first area you'll probably come across is anonymous proxies. These are servers which sit in between you connection and the web site you visit, if you use a properly configured proxy server and surf by proxy then all the web site will see is the IP address of the Proxy server.

It's not hard to configure your connection to use a proxy - see my earlier post -
Configure to Surf by Proxy, however the huge security problem is the choice of proxies that people use.

You Mean the Free Anonymous Proxies?

This is entirely the problem - simply the word free! When you use a proxy server you are trusting your entire web browsing and all your data to the trust of the owner of the anonymous proxy. All your data is channelled through the proxy server, the vast majority in clear text using HTTP.

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