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[Michael Havens]

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info... AND the warning. It is greatly appreciated! Now
> will you please train me? I make a very good monkey! (you know.... a
> trained monkey can do it) Anyways, I went to proxy-list.org and copied a
> few proxy addresses down. For example:
>
> proxy:port                  latency    type       Country    SSL
> Uptime    last work time
> 202.103.215.203:80    0.0000    Transp.    CN          ?       100%      2012-01-18
> 21:22:32
> 61.157.217.31:80       0.0000    Transp.    CN          ?        100%     2012-01-18
> 21:22:32
> 112.65.219.72:80       0.0000    Transp.    CN          ?        100%     2012-01-18
> 21:22:32
>
> and was wondering about what is meant by some of the terms?
> Proxylist.org has good definitions for 'type' so I'm pretty sure those are
> terms I know.
> Does latency mean the lag time between when the command is issued and when
> the command is acted upon?
> Country doesn't really matter to me.... or should I be concerned about
> that?
> I only copied down proxies with 100% uptime.... or does that matter?
> last work time must be the last time it was worked on. that probably
> matters because you want a proxy that has recently been worked on.
>
> now then--- why do you say I would want to use a socks proxy. Will it hide
> me better? My 'Network Proxy Preferences' has a socks host setting. Is
> there a free socks proxy server I could use? Free is always good!
>
> So for the first one, HTTP proxy, would I enter '61.157.217.31'<http://61.157.217.31/>and then enter '80' into the port setting? What if I don't want to use port
> 80? What I mean is could have '61.157.217.31:80' <http://61.157.217.31/>as a proxy and still ftp or would I have to find a proxy with an ftp port
> attached to it? Perhaps someone can explain better to me what a port is.
> From a dictionary definition the best I could guess is that it is an
> opening into a computer.
>
> What about HTTPS? There is a separate configuration setting for an address
> and port for it, FTP, and the socks host.
>
> What about the automatic configuration space. What is that about?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Sam Kreimeyer <skreimey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What I meant was that whomever is hosting the proxy server might be
>> looking to steal your information (ie you connect to YourBank.com through
>> the proxy and they use a MitM attack to strip the SSL from the session and
>> take your account info). I never assumed you had any interest in illegal
>> activity of any kind. As for knocking on doors, a proxy will provide a good
>> layer of obfuscation. Daisy-chaining them is even better. You'll probably
>> want to use a SOCKS proxy.
>>
>> Any public access point like Starbucks provides great anonymity as well.
>> All roads eventually lead to the IP, but if that IP is used by hundreds of
>> different people, then you could only be reliably identified by other
>> factors. Unfortunately, though, most public access points run their traffic
>> through a local web proxy that limits what kind of traffic you can send
>> (generally doesn't play well with any traffic destined for ports not
>> typical for web browsing).
>>
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