A Primer on Internet Privacy
FindNot.com is an anonymous internet service. It enables you to use the same internet provider you currently have and at the same time you remain anonymous in all your internet activities. When you have our service connected all your internet traffic goes through one of our servers. Your internet traffic is encrypted before it leaves your computer making it impossible for even your isp to "spy" on you. We have servers strategically located in different places around the world. Whenever you do anything on the internet your true IP address is passed on to the other party involved in the transaction. With us whenever you visit a website, send email, chat, ICQ, AIM, IRC, FTP, Peer to Peer, make internet phone calls etc., your real IP address is not provided to the other people involved in the transaction. This is a tremendous preventive measure against hacking. Most hacking is based on using your real IP address, which the hacker won't be able to get, without that they have no idea where to hack into.
Your internet provider retains a log file that shows the times your IP address was used and where it connected to. Some internet providers save these log files indefinitely and they may give these files to whoever asks with or without a court order and this would mean every website you visited and everything you did is no longer private. Your internet provider has your home address, name, phone, credit card etc. When this information is turned over to third parties your privacy has been violated big time and you don't even know it. The results of this can be stalking electronically or physically, identity theft, and other forms of harassment.
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