I was just reading through a thread which was posted on here, all about internet anonymity and privacy. It got me thinking that actually, I do quite a lot in order to remain fairly anonymous when using the internet. For a start, I don't use any social networking websites such as Facebook/Myspace/Twitter which are basically online databases full of information which people willingly give out every single day. The scary thing is, they don't even realize just how much information they're actually putting on the internet, in full public view. Whenever I'm browsing the internet (be it posting/lurking on here, or anywhere else for that matter) I'll either use TOR or a proxy of some kind. This hides my IP address, and also makes it much harder to be traced. Instead of my home connection showing up in logs, all they'll see is a request from a TOR server
For instant messaging I sometimes use TOR or a SOCKS proxy, but I don't really use IM unless I'm away from home.
How far do you guys go with your anonymity and privacy online?
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