Hide your online self
Here’s something you might not have ever thought before. There is no such thing as anonymity online.Prove it? OK.
Do you ever notice how web sites present different ads when you log on from different computers? Recently, While traveling it became obvious just how much information can be gathered by advertisers from simply where you log on from. Are you Familiar with IP addresses? If not take a seat while I explain how the internet is in no way as anonymous as you thought it was.
I could take a long time to explain how routers work and peering agreements but I’m only going to say this one thing. your data has an address that everyone on the internet can see. it’s not some kind of temporary type of thing either this stuff gets logged and can be reported months, even years later. In fact some countries right now are requiring this data be collected and maintained for years. So how does knowing this now help me? well for one thing there are tools out there that one can use to hide their IP. (Disclaimer time:I am in no way encouraging you to use this information to break the law or do anything that is or could be considered a crime. ) this can come in handy if you are in a location that disallows specific sites for instance in a country that has a State controlled Internet connection and you can’t get to http://www.wwtdd.com because it’s blocked. these kinds of tools will not only hide your originating IP address but in many cases will allow you to bypass these places restricted sites list. there are a number of good products on the market, there are also free sites set up out there but you should NEVER use them to do anything involving sensitive information as there are many free so call proxies out there that are not secure or even worse actively capturing data of anyone who uses the service. A better move is to go with a proven product such as the one that hide-my-ip provides.
