From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 05:05:41 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: WWW Proxies?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960428123832.212A-100000@gak>
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On 27 Apr 1996, Ryan Russell/SYBASE wrote:

> We use CERN proxies, as well as general purpose proxies,
>  which effectivly narrows it down to someone within my company.
> 
> But, that only masks the IP address.  My impression was that
> most browsers hand out enough info about you at the application
> layer that it does little good to mask the IP address.  At least for
> privacy purposes...address translation is a great firewall
> model, IMHO.

There are anonymous web proxies that remove the headers sent with the HTTP
request.  This way, it is impossible to track down the user without doing
some sort of active monitoring of connections to the proxy.

- -- Mark

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