Web Evader

Whenever you surf the internet your ip is being logged by every website you browse. An easy check of network logs will indicate the ip of everyone that visited a specific website. These logs can be kept for years, and it is possible to reproduce to trail back to you! It's not an issue of just covering your tracks as most of us have nothing to conceal, it's an issue of basic PRIVACY. Your right to privacy is always compromised when you are browsing without a proxy.

Web-based proxies are programs that mediate between a workstation user in a networked environment and the Internet beyond. They are associated with a "gateway," which separates the internal network from the outside; a "firewall," which screens all incoming traffic and protects the network from unwelcome intruders; and a "caching" program, which looks locally for previously downloaded web pages. If the requested page is not found, the proxy server goes out to the Net and retrieves it, almost invisibly, for the user. Apparently, this is a safe, efficient way of handling inbound and outbound traffic on a network.