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Hide IP & VPN FAQs

How to Dump Your Friend’s Facebook Profile and “private” Data?

By Heryzo | Published: February 4, 2012

Let me be clear from the beginning: the purpose of this article, as well as the tool that I’ll be mentioning in this article, is to setup a Proof of Concept – it is not intended to make you a hacker. The goal here is simple: do an awareness campaign for How-to-hide-ip readers when it [...]

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Do You Know What Packet Sniffing Is? If Not, Then You Should.

By Heryzo | Published: December 28, 2011

I know, I usually talk in layman’s terms when it comes to dealing with network topics. I won’t make an exception on this article. So let’s keep the jargons to the minimum, and, instead, take actual case studies that will help you understand this packet sniffing thing better. Let’s suppose that you are a Windows [...]

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What Is Logged Into a VPN Connection?

By Heryzo | Published: November 5, 2011
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As we were asking our readers about the VPN solution they want us to review, someone suggested one VPN solution and emphasizes on the logging feature of such solution. In fact, he wanted to know the information that is logged by the VPN solution. This truly is a legitimate question. If we think about it, [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part II

By Heryzo | Published: August 19, 2011
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On the first  part of this serie of articles with regard to censorship on the internet, we addressed how limitation can be done on your computer and at the corporate or ISP level. Let’s see on this second part how this censorship can be done at the country-level side. We all have heard countries who [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part I

By Heryzo | Published: August 18, 2011
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Last March, the buzz around the internet was that China is blocking access to some external sites, but since some clever users have figured out to using a VPN to overcome the issue, the Chinese government also begun to block some VPN implementations (PPTP and L2TP based VPN). Let’s take a simple look at how [...]

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Is a Free VPN Safe?

By Heryzo | Published: July 22, 2011
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In one of the series of article I wrote about FreeUSvpn.com free VPN service, one of the commenters asked if it’s safe to use this service. I’m going to bring my two cents to this critical question – and rather than answer for the particular VPN service quoted above, I’d like to address this in [...]

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How to setup a VPN connection in Windows 7

By HideIP Admin | Published: September 8, 2009

As Windows 7 has just been launched, many VPN services did not update their setup pages to explain how to setup a VPN connection on this latest OS from Microsoft. One of my readers asked me about this issue, but as I do not have Windows 7 installed  on my computer I’ve searched for a tutorial [...]

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How To Find The Email Sender’s Original IP Address

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 13, 2009

If someone is harassing you via email or flooding your inbox with junk mail you may want to find the location of the email sender. This can now be done very simple using the online tool developed by MyIPTest.com. Every email received contains the routing of the email and the originating IP of the email sender. Not all emails can [...]

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How to change your ip address using ipconfig command

By HideIP Admin | Published: July 16, 2009

When you are banned on a forum your IP address is logged and blacklisted. Every time you try to login to your forum account, your IP address is checked in the black list and if found you are rejected. The solution for this problem is very simple. Not need to use proxies, hide IP tools, etc. [...]

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How to configure Firefox to increase your privacy

By HideIP Admin | Published: April 22, 2009

When you use a proxy or other tools for anonymous browsing you get a certain level of protection against the detection of your IP address, but the browser stores a lot of information about the sites you visit. Firefox has built-in feature to clear temporary files and internet history, but this might not be enough. The [...]

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