Re: Anonymous Web Browsing

- From:           tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)

- At 5:24 AM 3/2/96, dwhite@pris.bc.ca wrote:
- >        My question is this:  Would it be possible to create a web site that
- >would function along the same lines as remailers do?  Something that would
- >allow a person to browse anonymously.   So lets say I surfed into a

- Tim May writes:
- Your intuitions are correct, that protection steps are needed. The
- technology is developing, but the perceived need (anonymous browsing) is
- probably less than the perceived need for anonymous e-mail.

simple, not real secure solutions:

find a unix host, run the cern httpd server, turn on proxying, turn 
off logs. (about 10-15 minute setup) if this is not run often, it 
works well.

use netcom (or something similiar) that gives you dynamic ip 
addresses. as a bonus, netcom doesn't require an actual name or 
address. (yes, they require a CC#). this allows fairly anonymous 
access. (prehaps one reason the neeed for web proxies isn't that high)

glenn

On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Powers Glenn wrote:

> use netcom (or something similiar) that gives you dynamic ip 
> addresses. as a bonus, netcom doesn't require an actual name or 
> address. (yes, they require a CC#). this allows fairly anonymous 
> access. (prehaps one reason the neeed for web proxies isn't that high)

I wouldn't give Netcom my CC# if my life depended on it.  They have a 
really lousy record of people breaking in, stealing their lists of CC 
numbers, then Netcom trying to sweep it under the rug and not telling 
their users that their CC# was compromised.

Besides, their service really sucks, and their technical "support" 
doesn't exist.
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Ed Carp <erc@dal1820.computek.net> writes:
> I wouldn't give Netcom my CC# if my life depended on it.  They have a
> really lousy record of people breaking in, stealing their lists of CC
> numbers, then Netcom trying to sweep it under the rug and not telling
> their users that their CC# was compromised.
>
> Besides, their service really sucks, and their technical "support"
> doesn't exist.

I heard they have many more people using their system than it can handle,
so the response time is really bad.

Also several people complained that they tried to cancel a netcom account
and netcom kept on billing their credit card.

(I'd never deal with an ISP who doesn't accept checks or money orders.
And I mean checks, not automatic withdrawals from a checking account.)

dhp.com has been recommended to me as an ISP that respects its users privacy.

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