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Can you surf the web anonymously?

Posted by knubbl • 6/22/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: computer, internet, Privacy, technology, web

This question bothers me all the time: Do you think you can surf the web anonymously?
In my opinion you can not surf the internet without giving away information about you. Every time you visit a homepage you give away your precise location if you are not using a proxy.

So what do you think? Is it possible?

User Comments

6/22/08

acousticguitarist

no, people think they can but everything is monitored. Low level hackers think they can but you'd have to be working at a pretty high level to bypass the surveillence systems that are in place now.

Sooner or later they'll probably introduce bometric logons

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6/22/08

br3adman

Yes you can HIDEMYASS.COM I think is nicely structured.

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1. 6/22/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  I'm not convinced..look what they did in Las Vegas lkast year for one week and they had something like a couple of thousand terrabytes of data that they forwarded to the FBI. we had a doco here in Australia about it and the usage of the black boxes.
2. 6/22/08
  
  PetLvr
  
  I use kroxy.net when I have a need // similar thing,.
6/22/08

carlgalloway

The only thing you can really do to protect yourself is visit so many sites on such a wide range of topics, and get involved in so many discussion under so many different usernames that it would take a psychologist a serious amount of effort to actually work out what the real you is all about.

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1. 6/22/08
  
  GFG
  
  Anyone worked out the real GFG yet?
2. 6/22/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  if you're just talking about hiding who you are from the average web host , this is easy. But there is higher level monitoring.
  
  when I studied computers, we had to study Security and learn how to hack and crack. We had guidelines about where we could go and what we could do. So yes there are easy ways of hiding. But why would you bother?
6/22/08

GFG

Of course u can...easy ....unless u are not too smart haha

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6/22/08

knubbl

I really don't think it is possible. You can try your best using Tor and web proxies but you still leave some traces behind. The problem is that it slows everything down. I thought of building a firefox plugin which removes referer, browser and operating system information.

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1. 6/22/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  but why would you want to?
6/22/08

fczamora

i think not. every move is monitored and connected.. same thing that you can possibly be viewed by somebody else... talking about RAD...

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6/22/08

knubbl

why would i want to remove all the information? or what do you mean?
By the way there is already software out there to fool biometric software.

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1. 6/22/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  why would you want to surf anonymously?
6/22/08

knubbl

because i dont want people to know private information about me. Isn't it important for you to be able to surf the internet anonymously?

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6/22/08

roentarre

Unlikely these days.

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1. 6/22/08
  
  knubbl
  
  yeah but what can you do about it? I use GPG to encrypt my emails but I can't use it very often since many people don't use it.