IP address hiding

Hi, ive seen programs that say they can hide your ip address.

Do they work?

Does this have any security benefit?

Cheers.

 

This service works. I have used it successfully for months:

www.xerobank.com

In my opinion, no, running an anonymity service does not improve your system security, but neither does it hurt it.

 

Whether or not it offers security it's a matter of relativity. How so? Are you married? Do you watch porn? Does your wife/husband work at your ISP?

It's all about relativity, if you ask me!

Do you still run it? I heard it uses Tor and that it is sort of slow?

 

WOW!

It say the government are monitoring my activity for suspicious behaviour!

Allthough actually im not that bothered, I dont have any evil plans to take over the world !

But another thing:

I have lots of different passwords for websites and I have put them into a text file. But I have encrypted the text file using windows xp.

Is that ok? Is something like 'Password Depot 4' more secure?

 

No, XeroBank is quite fast... much more so than Tor. It does not use any Tor infrastructure... Think of it as like Tor, except owned by a company whom you must trust implicitly (which I do). Plus, there is no logging and the company is Panamanian.

One thing... XeroBank is based on OpenVPN.... I use the standard open-source OpenVPN client with my XB credentials (certs, keys, etc.) and I never have any problems whatsoever.

 

I don't know that application, but you could give Keepass Password Safe a try. It's an open-source application.

http://keepass.info/

 

That should have no bearing whatsoever! It's called "privacy" and what you do is your business and not anyone else's.

 

Sorry it sounds a stupid question, but for what I understand, instead of using Xerobank, you use OpenVPN and use your credentials there to connect to Xerobank.

I assume you're talking about the paid service of Xerobank? I ask, because I've been at their site and there's also a free version.