Hi all, nice to meet you all,
I've posted a couple of threads on this forum and I think Im starting to get paranoid!! Does anybody worry about the FEDS gaining IP addresses or personal info from the website masters about us??
Thanks for your time and Im sure we'll all talk again soon......
Hey LJ, I'm new here as well. Something that may help lessen your worry somewhat is using a VPN service. It will encrypt your connection from end to end plus give you a non local shared IP. With this any server logs here or elsewhere won't show your actual IP and the encryption will help prevent your ISP from snooping on you (which they do) so long as you also change your DNS config from using your ISP's DNS servers to a different provider, some of which are free to use.
Using a proxy server is also another option and many are free to use. If configured properly it can mask your IP pretty well but I don't consider this as secure an option.
As for VPN services, there are many available, some slow as cold molasses and some as fast as you can go. So if you do decide to go that way be sure to read legitimate reviews and go with a short term contract (monthly usually) at first so you can try it out for a while.
Is it 100% secure? Well technically nothing in the digital world is as far as I know as it really boils down to how many resources are involved. So if you make it just that much harder (or expensive) for someone to track you, then unless you're a big fish, chances are LEO will go set their hooks elsewhere.
Peace out,
Budder