How to Hide My IP Address

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                    How to Hide My IP Address

If you want to stay anonymous on the internet then one of the first lessons to learn is how to hide my IP address. The IP address is your address on the internet and can be easily tracked back to your computer. In fact a worrying development all over the world is for Governments to force ISPs to hold this information to build up a comprehensive web surfing record of all it's citizens. This is already a Directive in the European Union and many countries are planning to create external databases with all this information for various agencies.

Personally I'm not at all impressed with this turn of events so I always surf anonymously. One lesson to learn is to make sure you hide your IP address from the web site you are visiting. This is fairly easily achieved and the simplest way is to sue an anonymous proxy, this server acts as a go between and fetches the web pages from the web server you are browsing. This means that only the proxy servers address appears in the web server logs and not your IP address.

Another added use of proxy servers is to bypass various content restrictions set by ISPs or Governments, for instance Turkey had banned many web sites after various legal cases - these include things like You Tube, Wordpress blogs and some religious or political sites. By using a proxy server you can bypass these restrictions as the web content is being served indirectly by the proxy server and not that nasty You Tube website!

It's a great tool for free speech and bypassing countries which censor the internet - of which there are many more than you would imagine. My main caveat with using anonymous proxies is to make sure you know they are run well and safe, they are also commonly used as traps by identity thieves and hackers - who use them to intercept all your web traffic to steal data, account names and passwords. Unfortunately most anonymous proxies are extremely slow unless you pay for a private network.

If you want to read about some of my thoughts on using free anonymous proxies and how you can surf without being spied on, try the link below, from there you can also try out a demo of the most secure, sophisticated web browsing product available anywhere.