Privacy/Security: How to change my IP address daily or weekly on DSL

No, we don't get your MAC address.

You can edit the headers in most newsreaders to change your Organization, User-Agent, and some others; I don't know about 40tude (silly bloody name). Do you really think my Newsreader is what I say it is?

We only know your OS because you're using a Winders newsreader. Your NNTP provider is adding your NNTP-Posting-Host; think about finding one that's more discreet. We can't tell _exactly_ where you are from your IP anyway.

I'm using a throwaway name. Mail to that address disappears into a black hole, and I'm not going to tell you my IP (dynamic like yours) or my ISP (not the same as my news provider), or where I live or my MAC's maiden name. But I don't really care either. You're worrying too much.

OK, so lets say a bad guy gets your ip address, and he runs a whois search on that ip. Guess what, the listing of that IP is your ISP, not you, so there is no way he can identify you to that IP address. Now if the cops came up with a warrant, they can force the ISP into giving out information that will identify you, but ISP's will not give out information about your surfing unless they are forced to by a court order, and some have even fought that.

for enhanced security measures changing your SSID will not hurt.

While I see where you are coming from, I would not say it is pointless. There are valid and invalid reasons for wanting to change a MAC address.

Just using your IP address to track messages would also give me the other people who were assigned that IP address by your ISP. Remember the ISP is who is identified by that IP address when you run a whois.

Yep, just type in your name you use to post, or the email address you are using.

It will not. If you want to post anonymously, you have to use a remailer type of service. They strip your headers, and replace them with theirs.

I leave mine open. But I do not have any visible neighbors

And again John jumps in with both feet in his mouth. And that IP address when ran by a whois will state it belongs to the ISP in question, not to the person who has been assigned that IP by the ISP. And the cable modems and DSL modems do have an address, it may be a layer two only address, or if a router is built into the device they can have a layer 3 address. My cable modem has a mac address that the cable company uses. So again John, you have displayed that you really are not that well informed.

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Communication security. Crypto and all that fancy stuff. Very interesting stuff by the way, especially in the signal intelligence side of the house. If you are paranoid about your ISP address, you do not want to know what can be done by signals intelligence, and other forms of electronic warfare and electroncic countermeasures.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:00:54 -0800, "Dana" wrote in :

You said "ip address". No other address is visible to the outside world.

You said "ip address". No other address is visible to the outside world.

Scramble noted and apology accepted.

This will not give you privacy or more security at all.

Better consider using Tor network.

Yours, VB.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:27:05 -0800, "Dana" wrote in :

For some things, yes, but in cases like this Google search is much less efficient than going to a reference like Wikipedia.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:33:59 -0800, "Dana" wrote in :

It won't actually help at all. Anyone with even minor clue can get the MAC address or otherwise identify it.

Sure. But security isn't one of them.

| the ONLY News Group

| | Communication security. | Crypto and all that fancy stuff. | Very interesting stuff by the way, especially in the signal intelligence | side of the house. | If you are paranoid about your ISP address, you do not want to know what can | be done by signals intelligence, and other forms of electronic warfare and | electroncic countermeasures. |

Make him even MORE pranoid. Tell him about Tempest Monitoring :-)

And not particularly effective either

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I suggest figuring out how the basic tcp/ip networking works before you really do shoot yourself in both feet.

Yeah that'll work....

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Now he is going to shield his house with lead.

Thanks for the link. Very interesting read.

Never said it was.

People need to be aware that Wikipedia is not a real reference, and that the material there is not checked for accuracy.

Sure, but the question is, why? What good does it do you?