Double Life: General tips and tricks not covered in other Double Life threads.
- Thread starter magicfingersny
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I'll differ with you here. If you access the internet directly thru cable or a T3 and such than there is no record except with the ISP the same as if from home. If your company uses a proxy server than your network admin can keep and have logs of your network and internet use. Always always always remove your cookies and browser history at the end of the session and never ever allow windows to save your passwords. There is clean sweep software that will clean you history and cookies for you it just means you have to memorize all the site addys you use..
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I guess it depends on how you define "access the internet directly" but if you work for a company, trust me, your traffic is probably going through a firewall which is keeping logs.
Proxy server, not necessary.
Unless you are the one who maintains and controls the company's internet access, don't take the chance. Just because you think no one is watching doesn't make it so.
Proxy server, not necessary.
Unless you are the one who maintains and controls the company's internet access, don't take the chance. Just because you think no one is watching doesn't make it so.
There are proxy servers that you can use on the net that you can route your traffic through to hide your IP address.
Check out proxy.org (I just googled them. I can't personally vouch for them.)
As a tech geek, I have an account on a local ISP that offers unix access. I establish an ssh tunnel to them from my office and route all my traffic through that tunnel. From then on, work has no logs of my activity and the rest of the world sees that ISP's address, and no my office.
Check out proxy.org (I just googled them. I can't personally vouch for them.)
As a tech geek, I have an account on a local ISP that offers unix access. I establish an ssh tunnel to them from my office and route all my traffic through that tunnel. From then on, work has no logs of my activity and the rest of the world sees that ISP's address, and no my office.
I am also a techie, I access the net thru a lightpath direct line the router is in my office I also go out thur a VPN on my other system which is monitored so only work on that one. I have worked in offices where we connected just through the routers to our ISP and no logs of the traffic was kept. The fire walls if on the ISP side can have logs but most ISP's don't track the places you go. When you access the net thru the Co severs than the user logs can keep track of you either thru firewall access or server use access. I do internet security and make it impossible for anyone to access anything but work related sites and research sites. Well I do have a way around it for myself.
For the truly paranoid:
http://www.torproject.org/
http://www.scroogle.org/
http://www.mailinator.com/
http://www.listible.com/list/disposable-email-services
http://www.torproject.org/
http://www.scroogle.org/
http://www.mailinator.com/
http://www.listible.com/list/disposable-email-services
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Do you mean from providers, or do you include fellow mongers? What do you do about agencies that require a real name and work number?
Also, see this thread, where the consensus seemed to have been that I was too paranoid about having a provider learn my identity: http://www.utopiaguide.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33839
Also, see this thread, where the consensus seemed to have been that I was too paranoid about having a provider learn my identity: http://www.utopiaguide.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33839
I mean from anyone. Providers especially, but other mongers too. Unless you become such good friends with another monger that you are introducing them into your normal life circle, there is no reason to not maintain your identity. Why make someone else have to remember which name to use at a party. Keep it simple. 1 identity for all hobby related stuff.
I don't use agencies that require verifiable personal info. If references aren't good enough for them, then I move on. Of course, that's easy for me to say. I don't use agencies in general. But I have been to at least 3 incall agencies (1 massage only, 1 massage + extras and 1 completely full service) that did not require my personal info.
I don't use agencies that require verifiable personal info. If references aren't good enough for them, then I move on. Of course, that's easy for me to say. I don't use agencies in general. But I have been to at least 3 incall agencies (1 massage only, 1 massage + extras and 1 completely full service) that did not require my personal info.
Maintain separate user accounts on all your computers with separate logins, and logoff every time you're not using the machine. transfer all you preferences and sensitive logs on a flash drive (there is software to do this) in a protected area of the drive. If you download porn torrents, download all of it to an external drive which you unplug from the computer. Use Firefox and clear the cache.