last seen 7 weeks 1 day agoSo, I have a question for those of you who are better with anonymous surfing/proxies/etc. I have one very dedicated, suspisious lurker on my myspace and blog.
When I click on the IP link through mixmap, it tells me this about the reverse DNS:
[Could be forged: hostname XXXXXX.com. does not exist]
Does that mean that this is someone going through a proxy server? Could there be multiple people using the same IP address? A google search of the IP address yields one more result, on a sitemeter page, for a blog that no longer exists.
I can't get this website to work!
I want to know if someone who lives in New York can have an IP in California ??
It is possible, though not very likely. Who is their IP provider that you get?
Their IP is Yahoo
Then that's why it's coming back as California... because Yahoo is located in Sunnyvale. He could be telling the truth.
How do you track someone thru MySpace??
what does a Proxy mean ??
tips: make sure you use a trusted proxy.
because some are created by malicious people designed to steal your personal information (passwords, login info, and other info you pass along while using the proxy)
you can use a method known as "chaining proxys" to help make you more anonymous and harder to trace back to your actual ip.
and dont assume that you are completely anonymous with proxies. most websites can figure out your real ip.
also, most proxies keep logs.(used to handover your real ip to the law, for example.) Dont assume that the proxy site is gonna protect your real ip info if it is requested by the law or gov---the proxy site isnt gonna "cover" for you--they dont really care about you on a personal level. They will not put themselves in "jeopardy" just to protect someone using their proxy.
and some proxy sites are actually created by the gov.
Proxy
A firewall mechanism that replaces the IP address of a host on the internal (protected) network with its own IP address for all traffic passing through it. A software agent that acts on behalf of a user, typical proxies accept a connection from a user, make a decision as to whether or not the user or client IP address is permitted to use the proxy, perhaps does additional authentication, and then completes a connection on behalf of the user to a remote destination.
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