Hiding IP address

[Ruprect]

its at home behind a router. I want to send someone several thousand emails using something like Atomic Mail Sender

Are you 419 baiting?

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

I want to hide my ip address. Any good way of doing this?

Thanks
Andy

Actually there's loads of ways to do this.

But I'm not going to tell you any.

Why don't you ask the internet?

[NoddY]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but how can a hotmail mail have your IP address? The mail is sent from the hotmail server.

Hotmail add an extra SMTP header, something like "X-Originating-IP" to identify you.

[NoddY]

You can try Tor, the Onion router: http://tor.eff.org/ from the tin foil hat wearers at the EFF.

Expect a knock on the door from Special Branch when Gary Glitter views his websites via your router.

[BrilloPad]

Actually there's loads of ways to do this.

But I'm not going to tell you any.

Why don't you ask the internet?

I did try a couple of programs but they did not work. Which was why I was wondering if anyone had tried this.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

Hotmail add an extra SMTP header, something like "X-Originating-IP" to identify you.

Really? Dodgy, but probably advisable considering the reprobates that use hotmail.

You seen these new "find my IP address" things: http://www.ip-adress.com/
- Scary. Kind of makes you fell like an extra in one of those gulf war videos - with a cruise missile targetted on the back of your head.

Anonomyzer is good for hiding. $29.95 though.

[BrilloPad]

Anonomyzer is good for hiding. $29.95 though.

Thanks for the recommendation. Hopefully they do a free trial - will report back.

[basshead]

its at home behind a router. I want to send someone several thousand emails using something like Atomic Mail Sender

Worth quoting someone planning to commit a crime

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08...bomber_guilty/

[BrilloPad]

Worth quoting someone planning to commit a crime

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08...bomber_guilty/

I did see that case - I was quite suprised at the result. Thing is sending people unwanted emails (i.e. spam) is only a crime if you are soliciting. I have a friend who has the relevant statutes - will ask him for the full details.

And how can sending someone an email be modifying a computer system if there is no virus attached?

[basshead]

If you send the emails with the intention of interrupting service then its a crime and its pretty idiotic not to think otherwise. If the 'several thousand emails' are not intended to interrupt service then you're off the hook. The emails modify the system by arriving and being stored.

The Computer Misuse Act is quite clear:

3.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer; and

(b) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above the requisite intent is an intent to cause a modification of the contents of any computer and by so doing—

(a) to impair the operation of any computer;

(b) to prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer; or

(c) to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data.

(3) The intent need not be directed at—

(a) any particular computer;

(b) any particular program or data or a program or data of any particular kind; or

(c) any particular modification or a modification of any particular kind.