Posts Tagged "private ip address"

Private IP Address – You Don’t Think You Need One, But You Might

Posted by on Jan 12, 2013 in Anonymous Surfing | Comments Off

If you use the internet a lot through public internet zones, such as Wifi hotspots, then one issue you will run into is that you do not have an IP address of your own. Instead, you use the IP address that is provided by the network. One interesting aspect of this is that it means you share an IP address with everyone else who is using the network. This strongly impedes your privacy and puts you at risk of your information being stolen. Because of this, you need to...

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Private IP Address – Anonymous Surfing and Download

Posted by on Dec 20, 2011 in Software to Change IP address, VPN Services | Comments Off

Having a private IP address on the internet can keep your online activity anonymous.  What sites your visit, what you download/upload, who you chat with, the contents of your emails, and even your physical location can be discovered and hijacked while you surf the net with your real IP, especially on public networks.  A private IP from a VPN service does a couple of things. It replaces your real IP with a VPN IP It passively protects you against deep packet...

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