-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 27 Apr 1996, Ryan Russell/SYBASE wrote:
We use CERN proxies, as well as general purpose proxies, which effectivly narrows it down to someone within my company.
But, that only masks the IP address. My impression was that most browsers hand out enough info about you at the application layer that it does little good to mask the IP address. At least for privacy purposes...address translation is a great firewall model, IMHO.
There are anonymous web proxies that remove the headers sent with the HTTP request. This way, it is impossible to track down the user without doing some sort of active monitoring of connections to the proxy. - -- Mark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xf9b22ba5 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5 "The concept of normalcy is just a conspiracy of the majority" -me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMYLrg7Zc+sv5siulAQH2OQP9EeKgA0L8ApKBd6D0EsgrsisgldIim7nY GFAPDZqde7wXI09Am5mSTcUOlGYojXiV6lxxB/UZ/Dq/7Q2ZaahhF+gPefnRKLtb VmHMK2mkkJB76OhUvMDC69FYg5IoZTe2yBhnYpaglu1oqK1DVSNMJTKKt27KPsWj lGCoDjdIKg8= =zk1P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----