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By Bradley Mitchell, About.com Guide to Wireless / Networking since 1999

Can You Hide Your Public IP Address?

Saturday March 25, 2006
| Reference | When connecting to the Internet, your home computer (or network router) is assigned a public IP address. As you visit Web sites or other Internet servers, that public IP address is transmitted and recorded in log files kept on those servers. And access logs leave behind a trail of your Internet activity. If you could somehow hide your public IP address, your Internet activity would become much more difficult to trace.
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