I have 2 kids that chat online. They know my rules to not give out any of our personal information about our names and home address. However, someone told me they read an article about where a teenage girl was kidnapped and raped even without giving out her personal name and home address. He told me that he did it by tracing the location via the IP address. How the kidnapper got it via the ISP, is unknown, or perhaps, the IP address identity was leaked to an IP tracking program that has a database of whom IP addresses belong to? I know if you go through an anonymous proxy that your IP address is hidden and the proxy one is displayed instead to snoopers. When behind a router, I believe that all computers connected to your LAN reveal the same IP address when online? So how would I go about configuring each PC on my LAN to connect through each it's own proxy, because the proxy programs I am trying to decide between on using has a database of public anonymous proxies and it switches to another one if the current one is not working or is too slow, or the traffic is too full (That is what I read anyway about all proxy softwares like these). So how would I go about enabling each computer to use different proxies if need be, if they are all currently revealing the router IP address when online? I really am very worried always about my kids that I love so much. After hering that about the raped and kidnapped girl, I feel very uncomfortable and nervous when my kids chat online. That is why I am dying to set up an anonymous Internet connection.
Here are some questions I have that will help me in setting up a connection through an anonymous proxy:
1. Do all computers have to share a connection through one proxy at a time because of the router, or can I have each computer connect through a different proxy at the same time? Change router configuration?
2. Is the IP address of each computer connected to the Internet through the router revealed if I put the router in DMZ mode, which would make sense to me that you would then be able to use a different proxy for each PC, but I am not sure on that? Does your ISP know each individual PC's IP address when connected through a router (anotherwords, can your location and identity be revealed)?
3. Can each individual PC use it's own IP address to reveal when connected to the Internet through a router?
If I can't figure this out soon, I will not let my kids chat online until I can figure out a way to make their Internet connection completely anonymous. I am a very paranoid father when it comes to my kids safety.
Here are some questions I have that will help me in setting up a connection through an anonymous proxy:
1. Do all computers have to share a connection through one proxy at a time because of the router, or can I have each computer connect through a different proxy at the same time? Change router configuration?
2. Is the IP address of each computer connected to the Internet through the router revealed if I put the router in DMZ mode, which would make sense to me that you would then be able to use a different proxy for each PC, but I am not sure on that? Does your ISP know each individual PC's IP address when connected through a router (anotherwords, can your location and identity be revealed)?
3. Can each individual PC use it's own IP address to reveal when connected to the Internet through a router?
If I can't figure this out soon, I will not let my kids chat online until I can figure out a way to make their Internet connection completely anonymous. I am a very paranoid father when it comes to my kids safety.