hiding IP

[freddie]

hi peoplem

i was wondering do any of you hide your IP? if so what experience do you have of the various software?

happy new year in advance!

[Agent]

Hide you IP? From who? What are you trying to do?

Your IP address identify you on the internet. If you don't give it out you can't be contacted by other machines. Its a bit like asking "How do I hide my phone number from everyone", but still wanting your mates to be able to ring you.

One way to sidestep the issue is a proxy. This is like a 'middle man' that sits between you and whoever you are trying to hide your IP from. Of course the proxy still knows your IP, but the person you are trying to hide it from will only see the proxy's IP.

Alternatively you could put it in a brown paper bag. That works well

[tiggerai]

I think the proxy answer is the one he was looking for.

Sarcastic git.

(wub woo)

[0iD]

There are plenty of services about, Anonymizer.com offers what you want, but at a price. But hey, if you have a dynamic IP, what's the point, unless you're doing something dodgy

juist kiddin

[RoBe]

you could use peerguardian ( Phoenix Labs » PeerGuardian 2 ) or HideIP ( Hide IP - Hide your IP address and protect your privacy - Hide-IP-Soft.com )

2nd one costs money and the first is really for p2p stuff

[Rosaline]

Peerguardian appears to be just a fancy firewall type thing, it would not present any different IP to the rest of the world or prevent someone from finding out who your ISP was.

Generally there are only a few sensible reasons to want to present a different IP address, to be honest, and even less for hiding altogether. If you do wish to do this, proxy servers, or something like TOR, are the way to go.

[Agent]

And to be (more) blunt here - If you have to ask how to hide your IP, you can probably be tracked by using various other methods.
If you just want to browse a bit more anonymously, try some of the things above.
If your planning to do something you shouldn't, don't, you're never truly anonymous.

[iranu]

Hehe. My brother and his mate have a business they bought from my dad and they are looking to have a company redesign the program they use and update their website. They met a really nice bloke from the company they have employed to do this and in the course of chatting this bloke he said that he had convinced his 3 and 5 year old children that the house alarm with flashing light was actually Santa Claus making sure they were being good.

Some weeks later he found his 3 year old apologising to the house alarm for being bad to his sister!

This has now been extended to my brother's friend's household whereby it is the smoke alarm that acts as Big Brother over the 2 and 4 year old.

Remember, they are always watching you and if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

[santa claus]

....... he said that he had convinced his 3 and 5 year old children that the house alarm with flashing light was actually Santa Claus making sure they were being good.....

It's all lies. I am a REAL figment of the imagination not a flashing light. Uuuuumm, duuuh Besides, I got yer chimney number even if you switch yer IP....

[freddie]

er...cool!

i'm probably getting paranoid about snoopers and data hacking and what ever evil lurks through the net. Still if a little helps thats good for me.

thanks

[Lucio]

er...cool!

i'm probably getting paranoid about snoopers and data hacking and what ever evil lurks through the net. Still if a little helps thats good for me.

thanks

Quite frankly, if you're doing this to avoid being targetted by hackers, the chances are either a) you have something worth taking or b) you will make them THINK you have something worth taking.

In either case, you're just up'ing your chances

Best thing to do is to think about what data you give out where, for example, I use different passwords for different types of site, a stupidly random one if they keep credit card info, a moderately random one for forums and the like, and some really simple biometric ones for sites I don't really trust (i.e. they're guessable anyway, so it gives them no further insights into the way I do passwords)

[Jay]

There is no real need to hide you IP. The thought of routing my traffic via a proxy sounds just as bad as having your IP on show. If you think hiding your IP will stop you being traced your wrong. packets can be traced back to your ISP and then your ISP can track you on your usage.

[freddie]

blimey!

why do they still have these programs then if they offer no/little protection?

[MadduckUK]

same reason people still go to church