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Net Privacy: can you hide your IP address?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Whenever you visit a website, your IP address is stored there.
I read about several software applications that hide your IP address.
Is anybody here using this, or can recommend it?
Which method is best?
Having the firewall on obviously doesn't conceal your IP address.
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Addicted to MacNN
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Obviously software on your computer is not going to help with this. There are services that allow you to indirectly communicate with servers, so your IP address is unknown to them. I haven't used this myself, so I can't say how well it works and whether it's worth it.
Tor (anonymity network) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Tor works quite well for what Veltliner is talking about. But of course then people just see Tor, and because Tor is used for so much sketchy stuff, some places have banned Tor IP addresses.
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The difference is, you first go to the Anonymizer website, type the URL you want to visit into some box, and Anonymizer makes it look to the website as if you’ve come from one of their (Anonymizer) IP addresses.
With Tor, you’d set up their network of various proxy servers as a separate location in System Preferences, and whenever you have selected that location from the menu, your IP address will change every other minute.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Now the real question is, why do you want your IP changed? Without a court order (provided you did not register your IP), no one can link your IP to your name or anything (short of the ISP you're on).
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Originally Posted by King Bob On The Cob 
Now the real question is, why do you want your IP changed? Without a court order (provided you did not register your IP), no one can link your IP to your name or anything (short of the ISP you're on).
Unless you are Bush, of course...
In reality though, there are a lot of ways that IP addresses can be linked to real identities, even without an ISP leaking the information (not unheard of).
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