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There's no accurate definition of what constitutes a Secure anonymous proxy or indeed a place you can find one free of charge on the internet. But I'd like to add a few general points and things to watch out for whenever you are searching for such a proxy server.

A important fact to remember that simply adding the chase - ninja, elite or high anonymity to the description by a proxy server does in fact have no bring about whatsoever on how secure that server actually is. These might sound an obvious point but I have in person checked a huge list of supposedly 'Elite proxy hosts' and to be honest my gran coulded.

Lets for instance take among the very basic premises of running a secure, anon. proxy server - what context is the proxy service being given in. Is this something you know about on placeholder servers you have used?

Let me tell you how come - the absolute worse thing you can do is be given the proxy service as root, yet I see a lot that are configured in just this way. The job is that any flaw, bug or vulnerability with your proxy server could lead to the compromise of the whole machine. The root account gives complete control by the server, and with it all your browsing, altogether your logs and any traffic you send through that proxy. This sounds pretty stupid but you will ascertain that many 'free anonymous proxies' that appear in the net are configured exactly like this.

There is an common alternative which runs in the context of the user 'nobody', now this is much better as the account has no special privileges which coulded. But neither is it a appropriate configuration for a high anonymous proxy and the argue for this is that the account will still accept some read and write privileges over public areas and directories. It will also have some rights boilers suit logs created in the context of the 'nobody' drug user meaning potentially all users of the proxy have electric potential access to all the proxy logs and files made by this user.

The most secure alternative is what I would expect to see on any highly anon. proxy and that is that each user has an specific user ID for using the proxy server. These user account should have no other access rights any, each proxy session would run in the context by this individual user. This protects the security, anonymity by every user of the proxy and secures their charges and logs from other surfers using the proxy armed service.

Configuring an anonymous proxy is extremely important, a bad configured and insecure proxy server puts all of it has users and their information at risk. Remember whenever you use a proxy server, you are creating a exclusive log of all your browsing in addition to your ISP logs - if it is not secure you'll be putting your security at great risk, as a matter of fact much more than not using a proxy in the least. If you want a high anonymous proxy be sure you get one.