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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.