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The Dangers Of FREE Proxys


There are many free proxy servers and services out there. All of them promise to allow anonymous surfing etc.
While anonymous surfing is highly recommended, many of those free services are nothing else than means to steal passwords and logins from unsuspecting users.

Many e-gold and other e-currency accounts have been "hacked" because the user has been using an FREE anonymous proxy, which redirected the user to a phishing site to snatch the login information. Then the real accounts are getting hacked and the funds are gone.

The way proxys' works is that ALL INFORMATION passes through the proxy server, that includes passwords, logins etc.

Even the well known TOR network cannot control their exit points and cannot guarantee any security to its users.

This is the price of FREE - somebody has to pay for it, most of the time it is the unsuspecting user who losses money and time to those gangsters.

Frank Stone

Contributed by cessna on May 21, 2008, at 5:55 PM UTC.

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Howdy Sir,

I'd just like to point out to your readers that ANYONE can easily set up their very own 100% Totally PRIVATE-PROXY-SERVER for themselves on a Virtual Private Server (often for less than $10/month).

This solution completely avoids those Very Real dangers you've mentioned, because if you set up your own private proxy server, then you own it and no one else can access it but YOU.

Mishio Tsenaka
Elite-Proxy-Server.com

Protect Your Right to Privacy!

Mishio Tsenaka Oct 3, 2009 13:30

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