How to Hide IP Address?

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annaconda

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I know alot will tell me use VPN, Proxy Server, etc, etc.

But my Q is there any other way. FREE WAY i mean? Is there FREE PLUGIN for Explorer, FireFox, etc that actually works?
 
what exactly are you trying to accomplish here? Are you trying to mask the public IP address you are surfing the internet tubes on?
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Yes i am trying to Hide my Public IP. I heard about TOR, some Free VPNs, but again Slowness and they are useless.

Anything which will not slow down my internet speed, etc. :)

What i am trying to find is the personal experience from people who used and tested these claims.
 
annaconda said:
Yes i am trying to Hide my Public IP. I heard about TOR, some Free VPNs, but again Slowness and they are useless.

Anything which will not slow down my internet speed, etc. :)

What i am trying to find is the personal experience from people who used and tested these claims.
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Just about everything out there that "hides" IP address utilize some form of redirection. Hence, it will add latency to the link and slow it down. Now, by how much is the question, but you are often talking about adding a full series of hops to any connection you make, so it's not often a trivial amount.

Tor/open proxies/vpns are probably your best bet, but there may be alternatives depending on what you are doing.
 
Well, any form of IP masquerading requores additional 3rd party routers. Amd they cost money to run. Free services work because a bunch of people are using that router but each uses barely any bandwidth. That's why you can't Youtube, Bittorrent, etc. over TOR. If you want "full speed" masking, you're going to have to pay, period. Free services just can't be that fast and stay operational for long.

And remember, most free maskers (TOR, etc.) are run by volunteers donating their bandwidth to the cause. Abusing or trying to monopolize it is a dick move.
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Deal with the bandwidth hit or don't use a proxy, those are your choices and that's all there is to it.
 
The more general problem you're facing is that your traffic still needs to get back to you. As other people have pointed out this is going to involve someone outside of where you are redirecting traffic for you which will always either come with a backscratching agreement or direct payment for resources. Keep in mind that anyone who is seeing all of your traffic is... well they're seeing all of your traffic, which might be exactly what you're trying to avoid, depending on why you want to hide your source address.
 
valve1138 said:
Don't people use these things for illegal type stuff?
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They can, yes. Up to this point, the OP has merely been asking questions, so we have no idea what it'll be used for. And as has been mentioned, there are legitimate uses for this information.

Granted, I suspect the OP wants to get around some kind of ban, or is thinking about doing some l33t hacking...
 
HoppyChris said:
The more general problem you're facing is that your traffic still needs to get back to you. As other people have pointed out this is going to involve someone outside of where you are redirecting traffic for you which will always either come with a backscratching agreement or direct payment for resources. Keep in mind that anyone who is seeing all of your traffic is... well they're seeing all of your traffic, which might be exactly what you're trying to avoid, depending on why you want to hide your source address.
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Just wanted to emphasize this. Even with all these anonymizers, you're just layering complexity on in the hope that nobody will care enough to track things down. It's like a chain, and each link only knows the links next to it. While your destination doesn't know your IP, it does know the hop next it, and that hop knows the next hop, and that one knows the one next to it, etc. Eventually you get to the last hop that knows your IP. The intermediate hops are generally designed to be out of the jurisdiction of whatever you're hiding from (so they can't get the logs for all the traffic passing through) and/or non-logging (so there isn't any data to get). However, the connection does have to get back to you, and with enough power (legal, technical, etc.), they may be able to track all the way down that chain to eventually find you. There should be precautions in place to keep this from happening easily since that's the whole point of these services, but nothing is ever impossible.
 
well Hulu.com is not available outside the US, due to copyrights.

There are some appz that "claim" to hide your IP, like "Anti Tracks" and "Hide IP Easy"
I don't know if these programs really work, buy you can give them a try
 
LOL. Thanks Guys. Just want to clear it up, i am not planning to go any illegal thing etc. I was surfing a website and checking some overclocking forums, and one link lead me to the website which captured my IP and was labelled on their website under my session.

I did not like, and i was just trying to see. If there is any free, legal addon or program that will prevent privacy and not effect my bandwidth.
 
Think of your IP address like your mailing address. If you send someone a letter and expect a response, you need to include a return address. Maybe you can arrange with a friend to forward your mail to your real address, but this will increase the delay, and your friend may get sick of forwarding your mail and you'll have to start paying him.

Same idea here. Without your IP address, you'll never get a response to any of the packets your computer sends out. You can forward over someone else's machine, but that will slow things down and wastes resources, so is generally not free.
 
annaconda said:
LOL. Thanks Guys. Just want to clear it up, i am not planning to go any illegal thing etc. I was surfing a website and checking some overclocking forums, and one link lead me to the website which captured my IP and was labelled on their website under my session.

I did not like, and i was just trying to see. If there is any free, legal addon or program that will prevent privacy and not effect my bandwidth.
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FYI, every forum software I've ever used has done this. Most hide it from the general public, but mods/admins can see it. It's usually saved with each post, which makes it easier to correlate posts coming from the same location (i.e. someone creating a new account to evade a ban).

Like keenan said, it's your address, which is how the data gets to you. Using your friend to forward mail is a great example of how these proxies work.
 
InvisiBill said:
Just wanted to emphasize this. Even with all these anonymizers, you're just layering complexity on in the hope that nobody will care enough to track things down. It's like a chain, and each link only knows the links next to it. While your destination doesn't know your IP, it does know the hop next it, and that hop knows the next hop, and that one knows the one next to it, etc. Eventually you get to the last hop that knows your IP. The intermediate hops are generally designed to be out of the jurisdiction of whatever you're hiding from (so they can't get the logs for all the traffic passing through) and/or non-logging (so there isn't any data to get). However, the connection does have to get back to you, and with enough power (legal, technical, etc.), they may be able to track all the way down that chain to eventually find you. There should be precautions in place to keep this from happening easily since that's the whole point of these services, but nothing is ever impossible.
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Good point since the Palin email cracker just got a few guilty verdicts and he was using a proxy to do his work. If someone really wants to hunt you down, most proxy/vpn solutions will only slow them down for a bit.
 
InvisiBill said:
There should be precautions in place to keep this from happening easily since that's the whole point of these services, but nothing is ever impossible.
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Yup...

Most of your higher-class hackers are, IMO... Using coffee shops and hopping from one to the other. So even when they track down the address, they'll have no idea who it is, unless there's cameras that managed to snag all the details (license plates or whatever).
 
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