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Bebo, IP Addresses, and Infinite Workarounds

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

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Ryan Radia
1 year ago

Bebo only discourages those bullies too dumb to anonymize. There are a lot of them out there, though, so it seems like revealing IP addresses may be wise.

You mention Tor, and there are lots of other methods of achieving online anonymity. Daisy-chaining free foreign proxy servers is a quick and dirty way of staying "off the grid" while browsing. Paid services like Relaaks and Anonymizer offer strong privacy assurances and VPN connections albeit using the vulnerable PPTP instead of IPSec.
Bebo also reminds us that IP addresses don't really correspond to the individual ISP subscriber. In the Internet's infancy it was a fairly safe bet that a transmission from an IP address is origianlly from the PC of the subscriber, but no longer. The Courts still treat IP address like a physical address, ignoring the key distinction between the two.
And baddies aren't the only ones with good reason to anonymize. With privacy concerns growing as behavioral advertising and government surveillance become more widespread, I envision a future where a lot of people use anonymization strategies. I support ads based on behavioral targeting, but if some users don't want their web history tracked, the market will provide solutions for obfuscating browsing habits.

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