Monthly Archives: February 2010

How to Find Out the Country of an IP Address Using ip2c

ip2c (ip to country) is a free program that is able to determine the country associated to a specific IP address. It queries the five main whois servers responsible for each region of the world and try to automatically establish the most authoritative for the IP specified. Then it return the country’s two-letter TLD (for example US), [...]

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SourceForge Blocked Users From Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba

One of the biggest sites for open source software developers SourceForge.net blocked Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba, as Arab Crunch reports. It seems that the ban was initiated by the US government authorities in order to put the developers from “black list” countries in the dark, not allowing them to contribute to open source [...]

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InvisibleBrowsingVPN – Unmetered US/UK VPN – 25 1-Month Accounts Giveaway

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InvisibleBrowsingVPN (a.k.a. ibVPN)  allows Internet users to surf the Web invisibly and securely without leaving a trace and without being tracked. All the programs installed on your computer will automatically work via VPN so that the highest level of security and anonymity is provided. InvisibleBrowsingVPN is provided by the same team that is behind Invisible Browsing, the well-know [...]

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Google Wants to Get Client IP Addresses From DNS Queries

In a recent document posted on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) called an ‘Internet-Draft’ by Google, Google called for a change in the DNS server system to allow major DNS servers worldwide to be able to pull client addresses from DNS requests. This, according to them, is to enable bandwidth saving by rerouting traffic [...]

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Hide The IP 2010 Released – 10$ Off Coupon for How-to-hide-ip.info Readers

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Hide The IP is an excellent application that is able to hide your real Internet address while browsing the Web. It allows you to easily hide your online identity, select your IP location, hide your IP in e-mail headers, surf websites which are restricted for your country and many more. Hide The IP 2010 The new version, Hide [...]

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Top 10 Internet Access, Security, Privacy Threats for 2010

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EFF (The Electronic Frontier Foundation) compiled a list of the important trends in law, technology and business that would play an important role in shaping online rights in 2010, and companies that in the past year managed to infringe on the privacy of the individual. EFF plans to revisit these trends as the year progresses, [...]

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How-to-hide-ip.info With a New … Hat

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After more than 2 years of existence for How-to-hide-ip.info, I have decided it’s time for design upgrade. Firstly, I need a logo, plus the blog structure was a little bit old and outdated. It took about 3 weeks to get it done with the great help from the Reflection Media guys. We are not quite ready yet, [...]

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Overplay Adds South Korean VPN Server

Overplay announced yesterday the availability of South Korean ultra-highspeed VPN server. Overplay is a VPN service that can reroute your internet traffic via high speed, reliable VPN servers – making it appear to websites which you visit as if you’re located in another geographical area. By using Overplay.net, you can enjoy a variety of online TV content, without the [...]

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Poll: What VPN services are accessible in China?

Yesterday, I posted an article on Chinese users trying to access free VPNs and I realized that I didn’t know much about the situation the Chinese users are facing regarding the VPN access. So, the following poll addresses mostly to the Chinese readers of How-to-hide-ip.info and to those that travelled to China lately. What are the VPNs (free or paid) [...]

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Chinese Internet users struggling to access free VPNs

A lot of very popular websites were blocked in China in the year 2009. These well known websites include popular sites like Facebook, YouTube and Blogspot, which were used regularly by millions of Chinese internet users. These websites are still blocked, and the Chinese are now scrambling to get a piece of their favourite websites [...]

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