How to hide my ip address?

How to Hide my IP Address?

• How do I hide/mask/redirect my ip address so i am fully protected against being traced both web surfing and downloading torrents, Which is the best software or hardware solution? Remember this must hide my ip so that it can not be traced when using torrent files or p2p software

• Answer:

  While you can use proxy sites to "sort of hide" your activity, anyone really wanting to track you will be able to do so. Let's walk through what I think your scenario is: You want to pirate music/movies. Your home ISP assigns you an address You connect to PROXY-A thinking this will "hide" your IP address from torrent sites and people/applications monitoring for piracy. The proxy makes a connection, on your behalf, and gets the torrent file. At this point, you may think you are safe, but really you aren't. The monitoring software detects the illegal download and tracks it back to the proxy. They have the date/time and packet information related to the request for the torrent. They obtain a warrant and go after the proxy provider to get their logs. The logs reveal the IP address that used them to generate the request. The investigators now request the IP to owner information from your ISP. You aren't truly anonymous online. You may feel that you are, but anyone with tools and legal authority can track you down. ** Edit ** You can encrypt the contents of the message but not the message header itself. The packets still need to know where to go and how to get a response back. The high end hackers work through a series of exploited computers (i.e. an infected desktop/server) so the attacks appear to be from another location. This wouldn't help in the case of you getting access to a torrent unless you setup a repository on some exploited server and have other exploited systems request the torrent and store it to the repository for later retrieval from your system. Even then, with enough desire the authorities can trace it back.