Why do People set up Free Anonymous Proxies?
Well on the whole they don’t, you see the majority of these proxy servers are set up without the knowledge of the owner. One of the main reasons they appear is by accident, a server is installed and a proxy is misconfigured allowing anonymous connections instead of the specific users intended. Often the first an administrator will realise is when he notices the huge performance hit on the server or the rather large bandwidth bill arriving. It is actually a rather easy mistake to make and if you don’t have any experience in setting up a proxy server it can easily be left as an open proxy. The next major reason for the existence of these open proxies is purely and simply – crime. You see your data is valuable, your accounts and logins are worth money, goods can be ordered, bank accounts emptied and fradulent transactions completed all under your name. Identity thieves actively seek out servers they can compromise and install these anonymous proxies, they get the best of both worlds, some
