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- Using web proxies to disguise your IP address.
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- -------------------------- By Hardcore Pawn
- <hardcorepawn@cyberdude.com> http://members.tripod.com/~hardcorepawn/
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- -------------------------- A lot of people have been concerned
- recently about their anonymity on the internet. Deleting cookies etc.
- and paying money for services like the anonymizer. Well here's an easy
- (and free) way to get around this problem. Use the proxy machines of
- other servers.
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- -------------------------- Finding them is pretty easy, the best way
- is probably the ping program. From a MS-DOS window in Win95 (or from
- your shell) type: ping proxy.name-of-some-isp.net If you a message
- like 'bad IP' then there's no such machine but if you get ICMP echo
- information, then obviously there is. Also you can try looking around
- the isp/companies web site for information, or perhaps a forged
- (probably too busy, unconcerned to check.) email to the system admin
- asking if they have a proxy machine. If you need the addresses of some
- ISPs check out yahoo.com
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- -------------------------- To use a proxy through your web browser, in
- Netscape, click on Options|Network Preferences then click on the
- 'Proxies' tab and check the radio button 'Manual Proxy config' and
- then click the 'view' button. Set it up for whatever protocols you
- want, (some proxies might only support HTTP) probably FTP and HTTP.
- *Most* proxy machines operate on port 8080 but not always. Email the
- admin and ask. Be polite :) In Internet Explorer, click View|Options|
- then click on the 'Connection' tab and set it up a la Netscape.
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- --------------------------- Once you have done this properly, you're
- real IP address won't show up on: Guestbooks, counterlogs. WWW Boards.
- Java/html chat rooms. Anonymous FTP through your browser. Cookies will
- be useless. So don't bother with the anonymizer. Allowed into
- 'customer only' FTP servers. Many isp's have 'customer only' sections
- of their web sites (through CGI) you can access them and find out
- stuff about their servers, get free counters etc. *Also* if you have
- a "web email" account (Hotmail, Rocketmail, etc.) if you post a
- message through the web interface, the IP of the proxy and *not* that
- of yours will show up.
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- --------------------------- A WORD OF WARNING. It is probably not safe
- to use the proxy for hacking (denial of service attacks via anon ftp
- or whatever) as the owner of the proxy machine would probably give
- away your IP address to whoever you've been picking on. *Also* some
- squid (common) proxies do give your real IP for certain cgi requests.
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- --------------------------- Here are some proxy machines:
-
- proxy.cybercity.dk:8080 <Denmark>
- proxy.mersinet.co.uk:8080 <England>
- proxy.compuserve.com:8080
-
- Lots more out there but I don't wanna make it too easy :)
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- --------------------------- Copyright 1997/98 Hardcore Pawn
- <hardcorepawn@cyberdude.com>