heres a pic of the ap On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Michael Havens 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'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' 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 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). >> >> y--------------------------------------------------- >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: