Internet Anonymity Concerns - Hiding Your IP Address
Solution is based on intermediary computers, which are placed between you (the person who wishes to hide himself from everyone) and target web sites (and other network resources - such as instant messaging, file sharing etc). Those computers are called ‘Proxy Servers’. How does Proxy Server work?
Simply by contacting web site owner, and many of them will give theirs logs away with easyness, don’t worry. Just send e-mail using published contact information (click link like “Contact Us”), write words like: “Some guy who is using your site is suspected in credit card fraud, he has stolen my money already!”, or “The person with nickname ‘blackjack’ from your site is promoting child porn, we need your web site logs for investigation, thank you.” and 99% - you’ll receive desired logs.2. Analyze logs. For example, get timestamp of specific blog post and search for records matching this timestamp, then compare URLs of web site request and extract IP address from log entries.3. Obtain IP address owner (the Internet Service Provider, ISP). Use www.ip2location.com, it displays ISP. For well-known ISPs like Verizon - you’re almost done. Otherwise try looking it up in Google and find their web site. Half an hour and you’ll surely find it.4. Contact ISP, supply IP address, and say something like you did in step (1), and they’ll easily reveal user of their IP address, because they don’t want problems with that user. That’s it.Is there any way to protect you against this?
Your company has a proxy and you cant connect to some websites?