Re: anonymous proxies

From: Christo (chris_at_juststuff.co.uk)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:16:52 -0000

"Leythos" <void@nowhere.org> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c02eea54d880637989a5d@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> In article <2vsmdmF2pq7t3U1@uni-berlin.de>, chris@juststuff.co.uk
> says...
>>
>> "Mike" <honey@michaelmoyse.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:cna9lf$ir7$1@thorium.cix.co.uk...
>> > Christo wrote:
>> >
>> >> not to quizzed up on this but have tried one free anonymous proxy off
>> >> a
>> >> website
>> >
>> > As a side note, how do you know you can trust a random proxy you found?
>> > I
>> > mean, anyone could set up an "anonymous" proxy but for all you know
>> > they
>> > might be an FBI department tracking and logging your every click :-)
>>
>> I had thought that, that is why i have stopped using it, and also asked
>> if
>> anyone can tell me any good reliable free anon proxies
>
> There is no such thing as a ANON Proxy, and the reason is that it's only
> as anonymous that the owner of the service wants it to be. Since you
> have no clue who the owner is, and no idea what they do with your proxy
> data, how could you even think you would be anonymous.
>
> Asking for stuff like this in Usenet or any public forum is like asking
> the devil himself. Do you really think that a group running a proxy that
> tracks people would have a disclaimer about it?
>
> What you need to do is to learn to surf smart, learn to not visit places
> you are ashamed of visiting, and learn that nothing you do in public is
> private.
>

sorry im too gullable for my own good, i can see now why it would be a
stupid thing to trsut anyone but myself

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