Re: IP Address security

From: Armin Krawinkel (geschrei_at_gmx.at)
Date: 04/29/03

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    Lord Shaolin announced in <3eacf6ca_1@lon-news.intensive.net>:

    > "Armin Krawinkel" <geschrei@gmx.at> wrote in message
    > news:J6Yqa.46822$v62.512630@news.chello.at...
    >> Colonel Flagg announced in
    >> <MPG.1915d06d6d27b2a989966@news.charter.net>:
    >>
    >> > In article <Y2Tqa.40561$v62.431265@news.chello.at>,
    >> > geschrei@gmx.at says...
    >> >> Lau Kam To announced in <b8gbds$sti8@imsp212.netvigator.com>:
    >> >>
    >> >> > Hi folks,
    >> >> >
    >> >> > Are there freewares/sharewares available for download that
    >> >> > could prevent disclosing my IP address?
    >> >>
    >> >> trying to hide your ip address is silly and impossible
    >> >>
    >> >>
    >> >
    >> >
    >> >
    >> > It's easy to hide your IP address by going through proxies.
    >> >
    >>
    >> the proxy knows your ip then. you cannot hide your ip because then
    >> packets that should go to your machine would not know where you
    >> are. apart from that not all protocols are proxyable (is that a
    >> word?)
    >>
    >
    >
    > I take it you haven't come across TCP/IP sequence prediction or
    > session hijacking then?

    not personally, no. i do however in general know that these things
    exist and are quite complicated and not too easily accomplished.

     
    > Remember young grasshopper nothing is impossible.

    :)
    you might be right about that, still i believe _real_ anonymity cannot
    exist on the internet. it just depends on how much effort someone
    will make to find you

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