Not to dwell into much detail, it is very possible to hide your IP address
and send anonymous emails without a single trace, at least not back to your
real IP address.  Proxy servers would allow do support this functionality,
especially A4s.  You can even prevent cookies if you want to.  What
essentially happens is that the A4-Proxy serves as a messenger/checkpoint
between your browser and the www.  This would allow you to send fake IP
addresses, and switch proxies, etc.  And because it works perfectly with
https, you can these sites anonymously.  Not giving ideas, but it is quite
feasible.

Essa


>From: Mohinder Bains <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: IP tracing
>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:51:30 -0000
>
>Hello Guys,
>
>I think Alieu S.Keita is not well versed in the way the internet works.
>Every email can be traced back to the originating computer,if one has the
>patient and right tools.
>
>In fact, he referred to  DR. Katim as an "IPS tracing expert" without even
>realizing that there is no acronym (IPS) in the computer vocabulary.  I
>believe he meant to write IP's instead.
>
>However, tracing an IP is not very difficult as it seems. The IP protocol
>and other protocols used on the Internet defined the format of the data
>packets carried.  Included in each packet is a source and destination
>address fields among other things.  This is designed in order to notified
>senders of undelivered packets.
>
>Based on the information that is encapsulated with the packet, one can
>trace
>with certainty the origin of emails by using tools such as TRACEROUTE or
>simply stripping down the email header and resolving the
>quad dotted notation to its fully qualified domain name, and thus, the
>place
>of origin.
>
>However, locating the origin of the email does not identify the sender in
>anyway as people can use any cyber cafe to send emails. So whoever
>Alieu S. Keita is, if he so wishes can remain anonymous for a very long
>time. At least he is quite right in this matter because he is a coward.
>
>It is indeed of little significnace whether he comes out or not because he
>cannot influence anybody on this list.
>
>Thanks
>Mohin.
>
>
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