Why Are Public Web Proxies So
Dangerous?
by
Mishio Tsenaka
- Elite-Proxy-Server.com
When
you use one of these proxies, you should be aware that the owner of the
proxy server can legally intercept, store, manipulate, alter, and share
anything about you. (passwords, social security numbers, credit card
numbers, phone numbers, your name, your physical street address,
etc...). Those words (alter and manipulate) are pretty interesting
aren't they? The proxy owner can send you information that you think is
coming from the website you're trying to visit. Possibly even worse,
the proxy owner can send the website you're trying to visit fake
information that the website thinks is coming from you! Imagine logging
in to some online account you have, then later after you log off, the
proxy owner can log back in to your account and do whatever he wants
from your account (on the relatively minor side, changing your login
info, password, and email address, pretending to be you etc... on the
more serious side, buying things, transferring money, or selling your
private information). I can confidently say that these non-private
proxies are the most dangerous places on the internet, which is exactly
why I originally built my very first private proxy server in the first
place.
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