So much for being anonymous
May 10, 2010 Opinion, Security News
I just read an interesting article at abuse.ch about anonymizing proxy use and the privacy and security concerns that many of us don’t take into account.
*** The bad things you don’t know about such proxies ***
Unfortunately the other site of the coin looks much worse:
- You don’t know who run these proxies
- You don’t know if these proxies are secure and clean from any malware and drive-bys
- You don’t know the intentions of the persons who runs these proxies (maybe they have mean ill?)
But you have must be aware of one fact: Those proxies aren’t anonymous! Web Proxy scripts like Glype&Co have a free configurable option wheter the administrator of the (glype-) proxy wants to log the requests which are passing his proxy or not. And you can be sure that the most Glype administrators will do.
Go have a read here.
