Why are free anonymous ones, not the best proxies?
The risk is that a large proportion of these anonymous proxies are set up and controlled by identity thieves and hackers. It’s a simple concept really, pay a few hackers to break into badly configured servers and PCs on the internet, install some logging software and then open them up as free anonymous proxies. You won’t have to wait long before many people are surfing through these proxies and you can start logging all their data. Passwords, account details and more all flowing through this one server and the majority of it in clear text. Even your SSL connections which are usually encrypted are not safe as there are techniques used to intercept these. IF you have the unfortunate chance to surf via one of these proxies then you may as well type out a list of all accounts and passwords you use online and send them to the administrator of the proxy server because that’s what you are doing ! Remember it costs a lot of money to run an anonymous proxy – why should anyone pay the bill for e
