Is Anonymizer.com truly anonymous?

[zipkid]

Is Anonymizer.com truly anonymous?
I wonder if Anonymizer.com is truly anonymous?

The reason I ask is because I went to http://iprive.com/
abd selected their "full privacy analysis" and it did list anonymizer's IP address ... but it also did an IP trace and somehow was able to trace from their server all the way back to my pc's IP addy.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Does this mean Anonymizer.com is not truly anonymous?

ZipKid

[WildFyrDeZine]

Wow! That is a drag! I want to know too. I suppose if you are good enough though, you can probably trace just about anyone. So I would love to know what you get for answers on this one. I have been using it to go to a site that I know people are posting and talking to each other as all different names and it just drives me nuts that they are hiding behind names like that. The IP address are right there, clear as day, and look like the same person to me. So I figured I'd play their game and pose as different people as well. I sure hope they can't trace me.

[mr. bobo]

Originally posted by zipkid
Is Anonymizer.com truly anonymous?
I wonder if Anonymizer.com is truly anonymous?

The reason I ask is because I went to http://iprive.com/
abd selected their "full privacy analysis" and it did list anonymizer's IP address ... but it also did an IP trace and somehow was able to trace from their server all the way back to my pc's IP addy.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Does this mean Anonymizer.com is not truly anonymous?

ZipKid

What it means is that ipdrive.com uses JavaScript, ActiveX, Java, tracert, and file:///c:/ to try and scare unsuspecting and uninformed people into paying for thier services. View their source.

Turn off those options in your browser, block incoming ICMP, and use a proxy and see what they can tell about you.

Nada.

That said, don't trust anonymizer.com too far either. It wouldn't be hard to get their records into court.

[DATA]

hi,


Is Anonymizer.com truly anonymous?

Before that we should see if proxies are truely anonymous.

Once ur ip is transmitted,it will be logged and ur trail will be there for a long time on the internet. When you use a proxy,it makes it difficult for us to back ***** to the source ip.How ever by doing an exhaustive search(which indeed is hard)since all countries are not willing to reveal it.If your country has a lot of good friendly countries,they can get most of the logs on different servers worldwide and finally get to the source ip.

There is always a clear cut,well defined path from a source to a destination,what we do using the proxy is to make back *****ing difficult.More formally a proxy 'tends' to act as a one way function.



Do what Mr. Bobo told yoy,thats the best we can do or otherwise encrypt ur data or run secure http.

Regards Data.

[mr. bobo]

Anonymizer.com uses web bugs which can among other things be used to ***** what web pages an individual visits across many different sites and the IP address of the computer that fetched the web bug.

This is from my Norton Internet Security logs, http prefixes removed so this page will display them

Removed from - anonymizer.com/images/clear.gif

Removed from - anonymizer.com/images/global/clear.gif

The image properties of the web bug can be viewed by entering the complete URL in your browser and selecting the Properties or Page Info option.

Other web bug variants include cleardot.gif and dot.gif which need to be added manually to the default NIS blocking list in the Advanced section.

Not all sites that use web bugs do so for questionable purposes but I would be highly suspicious of the motives of Anonymizer.com in using them.

Learn more about web bugs

http://www.privacyfoundation.org/resources/webbug.asp

http://www.bugnosis.org/faq.html

Bugnosis has a free ActiveX control for Internet Explorer that can detect web bugs for those who don't use NIS. It depends on which you consider to be a bigger security risk, web bugs or ActiveX.

[Unregistered11]

it's not owned by the CIA like thought... Or at least this mirror of its april *7' site doesnt look like it.

http://web.archive.org/web/***7040*0*404*/http://www.anonymizer.com/

[mr. bobo]

"it's not owned by the CIA like thought..."

Did I or anybody else in this thread say they thought the CIA was running it?

I said they were using web bugs and web bugs can among other things be used to ***** what web pages an individual visits across many different sites and the IP address of the computer that fetched the web bug. That should be enough to bring into question just how anonymous thier service is no matter who's runnng it.

If you don't believe it see for yourself.