One number 9 absolute anonymity isn't practical in real life or on the web.
Many users think that the internet gives them anonymity.
They think they can express their opinions on internet forums without restraint or do things they wouldn't
normally do.
Actually it's much easier to identify someone on the web than in real life.
Internet communication is governed by certain modifiable rules.
Internet protocols are designed in such a way that it's impossible to stay anonymous on the web.
You can try to hide your identity through proxy servers or Anniyan routing.
Let's analyze the mechanisms behind these solutions that can help you achieve internet anonymity.
Proxy servers or intermediary servers are used to pass your computer's requests when for example you
try to connect to the Internet the proxy server connects to a target server the web server administrator
can see the connection attempt in the logs.
But it's a connection from the proxy.
If you used an anonymous proxy server it attempt to track down the connection what ended the proxy a
person who wanted to discover who for instance insulted him or her on the Internet would find the proxy
and the trail would end.
That's the theory.
In practice it looks slightly different.
Even an anonymous proxy server which doesn't require you to sign in is managed by an administrator
this person knows who established a connection with the proxy.
So proxies make it more difficult but not impossible to trace you.
It's more difficult when you use a proxy located in other countries.
Then you can be sure that the administrator of the proxy you use speaks a different language than the
people who want to track you down.
Nevertheless it's still basically a cover up operation.
More popular and more universal cover up technique is called onion routing.
Its aim is to confuse the receiver.
The more machines exchange the message before it's sent and the target the harder it will be to track
its path.
It's easy to implement this technique.
There are programs that will automatically change your IP address.
This is achieved through a virtual tunneling network.
This technique is so complicated that even people who set up and are part of the network are unable
to trace the path the messages travel.
Otherwise someone could connect to the network and use it for their own purposes.
In such a network each computer knows the address of its immediate virtual neighbor only each terminal
is encrypted with a temporary session key which makes it impossible to track the packet once it's been
sent by the neighboring computer the network is constantly being rebuilt onion routing prevents the
target server from tracking down the original sender in a clump of virtual nodes.
It also enables you to regularly change the computer's settings in a random way.
Nevertheless such anonymity is only illusory.
It's obvious enough that a message or a blog post must have an author although it may be difficult to
trace the message path from the computer to the server.
The ninth security is still valid.