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anonymous Internet behind router?

Link19

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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.
 
There is no way to make Internet connection completely anonymous.

When you use a proxy service, it means that instead of the ISP's IP the other person sees the proxy IP.

If some one got to the ISP he probably can get to the Proxy as well.
 
But if they see the proxy IP address, that would still make you more anonymous, because they need your IP address, not the proxy IP address to be able to get your identity. They would have to go through the proxy first and only if the proxy kept logs, they would be able to get your IP address, but proxies come and go a lot, so wouldn't you still be a lot safer?
 
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

This screams urban legend. Please post a reference.
Bill
 
Unless you have a registered domin name and the contact people's addy's are listed in the who is lookup. Their is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY and individual can get your name, addy, phone # etc. Good luck getting it from the ISP unless you work there and steal it, have a judge sign a warrant, or be from the RIAA. It is remotly possible that someone can use the knowledge (of a static, nonchanging IP, to attack a users computer, place a trojan/keylogger and do some work to get the info, but just obtaining it thru an IP registered to comacast or something is rediculous!!!!!!
 
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