Tag Archives: proxy

SOPA Strikes Back

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You all heard it by now as SOPA is everywhere. Today is a special day, when big sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and others protest against SOPA & PIPA. Since last few weeks it is a very hot topic for everyone and when Obama administration said it will not sign this legislation I thought – the [...]

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When VPN and Proxies Won’t Protect You from SOPA

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This is an article that is hard to write, especially for someone who’s been advising the use of VPN and proxies to anonymize their internet connection. It always hurts when what you’ve been preaching can’t just be the right answer … But anyway, you can’t have a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem, can’t you? But [...]

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70% of Users Are Using a VPN or a Proxy Service (or are Planning to Do So)

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15% of US adults file-sharers are hiding their IP addresses, thereby increasing the demand for VPN and proxy solutions. This is the result of a phone interview that “The American Assembly” recently published. On the other hand, the once called “The Pirate Bay” polled its users about their use of a hide-ip service, and it [...]

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Free Internet For Your Mobile Phone via Opera Mini Handler: How Safe Is It?

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If you are one of those geeks who are seeking ways to get free internet access for your mobile phone (who doesn’t like free internet?), I’m sure you already stumbled into the Opera mini handler trick. Haven’t heard about it yet? That’s fine. The goal of How-to-hide-ip.info isn’t to show you how to do it [...]

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When Not to Use a Free Proxy?

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So as to circumvent some internet limitations, an internet user usual go through proxies. In fact, proxies are some servers that act like brokers/gateways between your computer and the internet. It provides interesting features in the way that it can “encapsulate/rewrite” your internet requests , so that the destination webserver thinks that it is originating [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part I

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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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Types of Proxy Servers

We all know what proxy servers are and for those who don’t, these are special types of servers that act as intermediaries between your home computer and the rest of the Internet effectively protecting your IP privacy. There are several types of proxy servers available on the net and having some basic knowledge about them [...]

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Who requires IP Masquerading and who must ignore it?

After our discussion on IPMASQ we moved on to gauge the differences between IPMASQ, Proxy and NAT. If you haven’t been through those articles then I will suggest you to do so otherwise the below text will be useless for you. Though IPMASQ and proxy are almost similar technologies yet there will be times where [...]

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Comparing IP Masquerading with Proxy and NAT

NAT (Network Address Translation) is a collection of public IP addresses. Whenever a machine in a network wants to connect to external network then it would use one public IP address from the pool available in the NAT box. Moving forward, all the traffic will seem to originate from the respective public IP address thus [...]

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FBVPN Stable and Fast VPN service

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In non-technical terms, a VPN (virtual private network) is a piece of software that routes your connection through servers in another location, thus making it appear to the target website that you’re located in the same place as that gateway server. FBVPN’s servers are located in the United States, and you’ll be able to access [...]

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