Category Archives: Privacy Issues

How To Surf Privately Using Opera 10.50

By HideIP Admin | Published: March 8, 2010
Opera 10.50 has been released to be the fastest browser on the Internet. There are several cool features that the new version comes with, including Aero Glass, as well as supporting Aero Peek and Jump Lists. The feature that I’m really interested in is Private Browsing, that allows you to surf web privately without leaving any trace [...]
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11 Motives to Get a US IP Address

By HideIP Admin | Published: February 23, 2010
Last week, SmartHide offered 10 accounts with the new Personal USA IP Subscription for How-to-hide-ip.info readers. More than 30 people have responded to our challenge and answered to the following question: “What would you use the SmartHide Personal USA account for?” The answers were focused, as expected, on unblocking sites, anonymous browsing and internet security. Below you can read 11 motives mentioned for getting a US IP [...]
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SourceForge Blocked Users From Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba

By HideIP Admin | Published: February 12, 2010
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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Google Wants to Get Client IP Addresses From DNS Queries

By HideIP Admin | Published: February 9, 2010
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 to [...]
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Top 10 Internet Access, Security, Privacy Threats for 2010

By HideIP Admin | Published: February 7, 2010
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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Search Engine Startpage.com Offers Anonymous Web Browsing

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 29, 2010
Startpage, the world’s most private search engine, and its E.U. brand, Ixquick, announced yesterday the release of a  proxy service that allows users to surf the web with complete privacy. The proxy offers complete anonymity, since the user never makes direct contact with the third-party website. The user’s IP address is invisible to the viewed website. [...]
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Firefox 3.6 Add-on for Chrome-Like Incognito Window

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 24, 2010
Firefox 3.6 was released a few days ago and there are already add-ons dedicated to the new version. One of them upgrades Private Browsing feature to be more like the Chrome’s Incognito Window. The Private Browsing Window add-on starts a new instance of Firefox alongside your existing session, with a new profile in which Private Browsing is enabled. You [...]
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Tor Project Servers Hacked

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 23, 2010
According to a report on Heise Online, the German IT security portal, two of the seven directory authority servers (moria1 and gabelmoo) that the Tor Project uses to run its anonymous browsing service have been compromised, along with a new server that the project uses to host metrics and graphs (metrics.torproject.org). Tor team discovered the attack in early [...]
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Microsoft Will Delete IP Addresses Of Bing Users After 6 Months

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 20, 2010
Microsoft has announced that it would reduce the users data retention time on its Bing search engine from 18 months to 6 months. With the new policy in place, the IP address of the users will be deleted completely after 6 months, thereby offering increased user privacy protection. However, all other processes will remain the same, for the reason [...]
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The Chinese Dragon: Censorship of the Internet

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 16, 2010
Chinese authorities have recently been widely criticized for their well known censorship of various popular websites from the Chinese cyber space. This was all done in what was cited to be an attempt to ‘purify’ the online surfing experience of the average Chinese citizen. The Chinese citizens in question, however, beg to differ, and several [...]
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