Anonymity and Security

[ande]

Great post regardless of what anyone else says. This was very very helpful and I learned alot. Personally i dont see whats wrong with him copy/pasting this. He brought togerher alot of information that I, new to this, needed. Thanks everyone.

There is nothing wrong with bringing information together in a good way like this. However, the problem is that copy pasting is very often of poor quality, wrong information and generally posted by people who only want a high post count.

I dont really care where the information comes from, as long as it is good, consistent and the original source is given up.

[G Man]

Awesome I will make sure to put sources. 

[paraponzipopo]

paying for any 'anon' service is pretty pointless/insane. it goes against the whole point of it being anonymous in the first place.
if you're after proxies etc, you're better off setting up your own - after gaining access to whatever, drop your own proxy/station and use that - it's the only way you can be sure that the proxy is not logging.
what companies say they do and what actually happens are often different things.
look at the track record of hidemyass for a basic example...

[proxx]

Yes indeed hidemyass just gave away sensitive information to officials.
Most of them will probably do.
Funny is that a lot of the VPN providers state that they dont allow copyrighted material to be downloaded through their services.
Funny thing is ; They say they dont log.
But clearly they do sniff, otherwise they wouldnt know about any such practises.

So if they sniff they log..
Weird.

[ande]

Yes indeed hidemyass just gave away sensitive information to officials.
Most of them will probably do.
Funny is that a lot of the VPN providers state that they dont allow copyrighted material to be downloaded through their services.
Funny thing is ; They say they dont log.
But clearly they do sniff, otherwise they wouldnt know about any such practises.

So if they sniff they log..
Weird.

Sniffing is not equal to logging. Logging in a general term when speaking of proxies and logging is logging of every single connection back and forth and potentially the contents as well. Sniffing and logging on signatures is not considered logging.

[misfir]

SSH tunneling is like a tor ??

[Th3Jok3r]

Thank you so much this was really helpful

[lucid]

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