4 ways to keep your anonymity online
April
15, 2016
4 ways to keep your anonymity online
By Komando
Staff
Keeping your identity
private is not without its challenges. With every social site pressing you to
sign up, or to link your accounts, or to share everything with everyone, it can
be difficult to keep your privacy to yourself.
But you don't have to be exposed to all those prying eyes and
ads. We have a few solutions to keep you insulated from all those data-mining
advertisers and snoops online.
Warning: While
these tools are powerful, nothing is completely secure and law enforcement has
a lot of online and offline resources to track down criminals. Do not use these
tools for illegal activities; you will be caught.
Privoxy - If
you're looking for a fairly straightforward proxy to keep your identity hidden
from online snoops, Privoxy is a good way to go. Privoxy obscures your IP
address and fetches Web pages and other online communication for you. Web sites
with tracking information only see the proxy IP address, so yours stays hidden.
There are some advanced steps in this program to take full
advantage of Privoxy's capabilities, but even if you're a relative beginner you
can make use of the basic features to hide your IP address.
Kproxy - For
those on the go, Kproxy is a good way to proxy your IP address. You can
download a file to any USB drive and voila! Instant privacy, no matter what
computer you're on.
This program works by encrypting the connection between your
browser and the sites you want to visit, where available. Kproxy routes your
Internet requests through a separate computer to keep your IP address concealed
from prying companies.
SafeIP -
Another proxy program that will keep you masked while you're online is SafeIP.
It encrypts your comings and goings online; even if you're not on your own
computer. SafeIP also hides your IP address while you're online, and it chooses
the nearest anonymous IP location for the best Internet speed.
All of your privacy settings in SafeIP can be adjusted to be as
secure as you need them to be. You can also set your IP proxy to stay the same
anonymous address or you can rotate the address to keep your proxy secure.
TAILS - For a
really secure anonymity program you should try TAILS. It routes everything
through the Tor Network, an anonymous network
designed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, which makes it hard for anyone
to see where you're going online. Tor keeps you anonymous online and your
browsing information encrypted while you're online.
TAILS is actually a separate operating system, so any computer
you use will forget where you've gone and what you've done. The computer will
even forget that you used TAILS, so it's the premium way to work anonymously on
public or unsecured computers.
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