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Throwing Light on
Incognito Web Surfing
You would be
wondered to know that when surfing the web, even if you
do not wish to reveal your identity, it is possible to
know them. To get access to this information, it is
definitely not necessary that your system be infected by
virus or malicious programs. Let us look at the
information that is readily available over the internet
when you are online. This would include your IP address,
your browser type, configuration of your system, history
of the websites you visited, etc. It is even possible to
know your name from the above-mentioned information
provided your system supports finger or identd programs.
As you have now read that your basic information can be
tracked, you would want to know how. Am I rite? It’s
like this…when visiting various websites, information
can be gotten and this can in turn used by others.
You would wish to stop this from occurring it again.
Ok…let’s see how to do that. If I tell you this option,
you would really be surprised. Yes…simply surf the web
anonymously. By doing so, you can stop others from
gaining access to your personal or basic information.
This method is definitely not the perfect one, meaning,
it too has loopholes. However, it is definitely
difficult for others to know your identity. You may use
anonymous proxy servers as they substitute or mask the
IP address. Once your IP address is masked, people would
find it very complicated to track your information.
As I gave you information about anonymous proxy servers,
you are now more interested to know about it and how to
get hold of one such proxy server, isn’t it? Both free
and paid anonymous proxy servers are available. However,
I’ve discussed here about those anonymous proxy servers
that are available for free. These products are:
a) ShadowSurf
b) Guardster
With Shadowsurf, you can surf both HTTP and FTP URLs
without others noting it. It is a free anonymous proxy
server. You just have to enter the URL of the website
that you wish to browse in a box that is provided in the
Shadowsurf website. Now surf the web incognito, that is,
anonymously, without the fear of others tracking down
your information. To do so, visit the website at http://www.shadowsurf.com/
Guardster is yet another freely available anonymous
proxy server. Want to surf the web secretly and at the
same time securely, you can use guardster. You can get
hold of both paid and free anonymous proxy servers in
this website. Some of the benefits or uses of guardster
are:
a) You can encrypt all SOCKS compatible applications
b) SSL proxy sites can be encrypted
The above-mentioned two services of guardster are paid
services. The fees for the paid services are
comparatively low. To know more about guardster, please
visit http://www.guardster.com/
If you are a frequent user of Google, you might have
heard about yet another product which the Chinese
government is going to release. It is called Anonymizer
and with the help of this, all Chinese citizens can
access the internet or the web safely. Visit http://www.anonymizer.com/consumer/media/press_releases/02012006.html
to get more information about Anonymizer.
As I said earlier, using anonymous proxy servers reduces
the risk of revealing your identity, however, does not
guarantee you of the result. Therefore, you may try the
following options to keep your basic or personal
information secured:
a) When you surf the web, you may try using an encrypted
connection
b) As soon as you are over with your surfing, delete all
the cookies from your system
c) Ensure that, you have unchecked the options like
JavaScript, Java and active content in your browser
settings.
Once you are over with all this, you can be sure that
your information is secured. |
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