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@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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