IP’s - Need a bit of anonymity? Get anonymous with your router
It is fairly often that when doing mischievous things on the internet that anonymity is an essential requirement. I have just been reading shady’s lost art of proxy scanning, an excellent read if your concerned with who’s looking over your shoulder.
Traditionally proxies fit this bill - adding a barrier between yourself and your deeds much like the infamous “glove box” that stops scientists spilling nuclear stuff all over their fingers. If you are doing a ton of stuff and need a lot of different IP’s second to second, in an automatic style this is probably your best bet, as proxy’s are easy to mess with in code.
Something I have always done though that as I see it has been widely missed or unacknowledged at least, (I am not sure if this is a uk specific thing or whether it counts for all ISP’s) is abuse my ISP.
What I mean is that unless you pay extra with your broadband for a static ip address (likely if your hosting your own) then you are automatically assigned an IP address when your router connects to the ISP. So literally to get a fresh IP address (and I mean completely different - if your with BT for example they have millions to hand out) just disconnect your router and reconnect.
It is physically that simple. I haven’t bothered automating this (although sure a little router hack script would do it simply) but it does work for me - perhaps theres limitations I can’t see - and it doesn’t help if your doing really naughty shiz cos your ISP will still know you.
Still - Widely underused if you ask me 
Tags: Anonymity, IPs, ISP, proxies, uk
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Comments (5) :
Jun 14th, 2008
June 15th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
that was one weak ass article.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
thanks j, appreciate the constructive critisism - care to expand?
your mum did say the same thing till I showed her how easy it is to change ip so she can spam advertise her “services”
June 29th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
hahahahaha
omg, that was a dreadful reply. It was so bad it was funny. I feel like I’m back at school. Or listening to one of them bad yo momma’s jokes.
“Yo momma’s so fat she fell in the grand canyon and got stuck”
When people criticise me I just mentally flip them off and laugh. Or if they are present and correct come back with a well thought out argument. If you throw in enough scientific names no one will ever argue. Even if it’s a simple I don’t like your tie
June 29th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
p.s. don’t take my comment personally. I probably put myself across wrong. I just can’t stand your mum jokes. They get right on my nerves.
Anyway if you ever worry about the critics just look at the crap some of the big bloggers throw out sometimes. Folks who comment like that probably don’t know hard it is to throw decent content out every time after time.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
yeah yo mamma Harry! lol I was clearly void of originality there however Thanks for a decent reply - one that was more than 6 words eh