How secure are these so called CGI Proxy Sites?

Everybody now these days is concerned with protecting their personal information from spying eyes on the web. While using continuing increase circumstances of stealing personal web identities, many people have been misdirected about what information needs to be hidden online and the simplest way to achieve a more secure Internet environment. One of the most frequent ideas is the fact when you start using CGI proxy server sites the security level increases.
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CGI Proxy sites work by very quickly and effectively relaying web page request for users to websites and back. The CGI Server proxy script relays your information without ever revealing exactly who you are. So that you are anonymous to the site you are visiting. This kind of is done in a nearly seamless manner with the person only seeing a tiny advertising bar on top of the page. This kind of information is going in both directions with the site server talking to the server hosting the CGI proxy site. The website server would not know your location (IP address), browser type, language configurations, cannot set cookies on your computer system and Javascript may be restricted.

What most users do not realize is that the CGI web proxy server keeps a journal of all of the activity including web pages visited, user brands, passwords, addresses, credit greeting card numbers or whatever else a person enters in the web pages surfed by using a CGI proxy server. This treasure of data is just what people want to hide on the web but by using a SPECIAL Proxy site you have delivered the information to the CGI Proxy site owner.

In 99% of cases, the site being visited should be more reliable and secure than a web based special proxy service. For example visiting Yahoo mail from a brand new fast running Proxy site, Yahoo is less prone to criminally use provided information collected from its websites to the knowledge of your location and browser type than a tiny website operator hosting a free CGI Proxy software. While logging into your yahoo account rather than disclosing your location (IP) to yahoo may sound positive, the price you pay is sharing your entire information including passwords with the CGI proxy site owner.

Credit card information, tackles, contacts or any other information entered on a web form while browsing pages through a SPECIAL proxy site are also available in the machine logs. Don't take the unneeded risk with your personal information, NEVER USE ANY WEBBASED CGI PROXY SITE FOR ANONYMITY.

CGI Server proxy sites have advanced recently, to bypass network website filters that block specific sites. Just make certain you know the risk involved in checking your Hotmail from work or looking at your myspace profile at school. This is a respected source of hijacked single profiles for these sites.

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