Title: Different proxy types: CoDeeN and PlanetLab style proxy servers
Post by: HIF on June 29, 2010, 11:29:44 PM
PlanetLab and others provide users with so called CoDeeN proxy servers. Let's say 3 or 4 years ago you could find CoDeeN proxy server even on our first Proxy-List.org web site but not now. The keep the same strategy for our new FreeProxyList.org web site, here is the main reason why we do so:
The biggest problem is that they keep all user activity and even do not hide that. They use it for different purposes... Of course you could think that you are not doing anything illegal and you do not see any problem if they will know what web sites you are browsing, what emails you are sending and even your facebook password ;)
YES! They could see all your chat messages, emails and even passwords if they are not sent though SSL tunnel. Even more who will guarantee that their logs will be not be stolen by some third party and later used against you?
That is why we strongly recommend everyone think twice before using such service. They do not guarantee that your identity will be kept private, plus your passwords could be stolen...
Keep visiting our forum to read interesting articles :) Needless to say, if you have question related to this article or you are interested in something else, you are more then welcome to post your questions here :)
The biggest problem is that they keep all user activity and even do not hide that. They use it for different purposes... Of course you could think that you are not doing anything illegal and you do not see any problem if they will know what web sites you are browsing, what emails you are sending and even your facebook password ;)
YES! They could see all your chat messages, emails and even passwords if they are not sent though SSL tunnel. Even more who will guarantee that their logs will be not be stolen by some third party and later used against you?
That is why we strongly recommend everyone think twice before using such service. They do not guarantee that your identity will be kept private, plus your passwords could be stolen...
Keep visiting our forum to read interesting articles :) Needless to say, if you have question related to this article or you are interested in something else, you are more then welcome to post your questions here :)
Title: Re: Different proxy types: CoDeeN and PlanetLab style proxy servers
Post by: franzharare on August 06, 2010, 05:21:56 AM
Yes HIF, I agree with you. And the another thing is that the way which you are sharing this all information with us that's really very nice. And I also want to say that any web site in the world can track your movements through its pages and monitor your reading interests using your IP address, a unique ID assigned to each computer on the Internet. Depending on the policies of the Internet resource, you might not be able to get access to the information you need.
