Trilight Zone

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Source: http://www.smartcomputing.com/

E-mail privacy is a myth. The ability to visit World Wide Web sites without being tracked is sheer fantasy. Servers (computers sending data to networks) track the contents and destination of your E-mail messages and the Web sites you visit, and can develop some revealing profiles about you with this information. Encryption can protect the contents of your E-mail messages sometimes, but encryption can be broken, and browsing is not protected. (Encryption is the act of encoding a file to prevent unauthorized access to its contents.)

Despite this, anonymity on the Internet is possible—thanks to some remailers and proxy servers that obscure your identity and make it impossible to track E-mail
messages.

Sending E-mail anonymously or visiting Web sites—even subscription-based sites—anonymously is not just for paranoid people. Anonymous E-mail offers a safe way to express opinions that may be out-of-character, for human rights advocates to obtain information out of repressive nations, and for whistle-blowers to report information. It also lets job-seekers use the Internet without fear of reprisal from their current employers, can help prevent flames (hostile messages) from overloading corporate E-mail addresses, and offers a way to post messages to sensitive newsgroups (areas where users post text messages to each other) while protecting one's identity.

Along with sending E-mail messages anonymously, the ability to visit Web sites anonymously protects our privacy from information miners, which gather personal information and sell it to marketers.



How Anonymity Works.

Remailers are key in ensuring that E-mail is anonymous. As the term implies, remailers re....