Anonymous access through a proxy

[Transition]

Seeing things like how RIAA is now trying to crack down on individuals on file sharing networks and other general ways that the internet is losing anonymity, i'm going to start operating through a proxy to protect my identity. My question is this, i see a lot of sites with listing of "free proxy servers" routing through some obscure country, but how "anonymous" or safe is your identity after running through a proxy persay, in Russia? And out of curiousity, since your routing all your traffic through someone elses proxy, is there any security concerns as far as the third party "proxy server" intercepting personal data?

- Transition, who doesn't want to goto jail for downloading an MP3 here and there.

 

[Transition]

Anyone?

 

[Ime]

Nothing is 100% anonymous, or safe.

Going through a proxy in another country that won't co-operate with legal matters in the states will make it much harder, but impossible.

You wanna stay outta jail, don't break the law.

You don't like the law, lobby congress.

Boycott RIAA!

 

[Transition]

Well i understand nothing is 100% anonymous, but putting up a few international language barriers is a major speed-bump in front of someone like RIAA.

Any comments concerning the anonymity of data being passed through a 3rd parties proxy?

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Going through a proxy will make you %99.99 safe. There are alot more people who are not using proxies that are alot easier to catch so they will go for them.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Here's my take of the whole thing... I believe that record artists are exactly what they are....ARTISTS. Therefore, they SHOULD be POOR!!! Because of this, we should be able to download all the free music we want from the internet and the only bands that actually make money should tour for it and work thier @sses off for it. Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Grateful Dead, Metallica, Jimmy Buffett....they all tour and some tour REALLY hard. That's the key to greatness and the people who hide behind record labels don't deserve my money because they're not REAL musicians.

 

[Transition]

Scar, thanks for the opinion but i really don't care about the RIAA. I'm just curious about using proxies......

 

[Kadarin]

Didn't the CIA used to operate such an "anonymous" proxy? (IIRC, it was anonymizer.com, but I'm not sure..)

 

[Zebo]

I think anonymiser.com can be made to anonymous. Check out thier site to be sure.

Another way is internet cafe if they don't ask for ID.

Proxies limit incomming content not outgoing IPs

 

[splice]

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
I think anonymiser.com can be made to anonymous. Check out thier site to be sure.

Another way is internet cafe if they don't ask for ID.

Proxies limit incomming content not outgoing IPs

They can also block outgoing content by filtering HTTP requests or other requests the proxy server knows about.

 

[Transition]

Carbo,

What do you mean by proxies limit incoming content? Such as blocking ports for bi-directional communication?

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Transition
Carbo,

What do you mean by proxies limit incoming content? Such as blocking ports for bi-directional communication?

I'm no computer dude but from what i understand when you run a proxy service on say port 8080, your browser only listens to that port, and thus is filtered by whatever proxy service your running like proximitron for example. Then Proximitron (the server in this case) gets all the info for the site you have requested then parses out whatever parameters you specified you don't want in the application. But it still recieves all. Now a firewall will not though.