Hiding IP In Chat 1

[IPLover]

Hi,

What would the protcol for hiding one's IP in chat, when 123Flashchat is the chat software:

http://www.123flashchat.com/

I've had my clients try proxy servers, Proxy software and even MAC "spoofing" - all to no avail.

It seems as if this 123FlashChat software seems to strip away any attempt at masking an IP

I really need this clients business so I need to know if this is a "do-able" thing or am I just wasting my time trying to find a solution for them.

Thanks,

IPLover

 

[IPLover]

By the way, the Chatroom in question is this:

http://host400.123flashchat.com/moyahua/

 

[jimbopalmer]

I think you are going about it wrong, find decent software that does not expose you to this. I am not sure you can fix all bad applications with clever networking.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[IPLover]

Do you know of any software that could achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[burtsbees]

Yeah, it is called NAT. Don't click on their HTTP pages---they can hide things in XML/Java...

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[compuveg]

If you are in chat, your network traffic will be leaving your machine and going to their servers. There's no way to hide this unless you are on the same network segment. If you did hide that successfully, you would be unable to get responses from the server as it wouldn't know where to send them.

I can't imagine the legitimate reason for wanting to do this.

If you're really wanting to hide your network address though, TOR would be the way to go I hear. Another way to hide it would be to access the internet from another location than one owned and traceable to you, such as a coffeeshop, a neighbor with an open wireless access point, etc.

 

[burtsbees]

NAT---your IP address is hidden from the outside world. Not your edge router, but nothing can get any info behind a NAT device unless you explicitely permit this...

Read about NAT, and RFC1918...

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[compuveg]

Yeah, but your internet IP is still visible when you're behind a NATing firewall. It only really will hide you if you're in a large private network like a corporation or a school network. Then it still isn't really hiding you because any organization large enough to hide someone will be logging network activity.

A home user behind a NATting firewall is still letting people know where their traffic is coming from since the ISP's got logs. If you REALLY want to be truly anonymous, you've got to use something like TOR, and even that's not completely anonymous, thus my suggestion to use a public access point that's not linked to you.

 

[burtsbees]

But who cares if the public IP is shown? If your pc is not statically NATted to the port, then the IP is hidden (computer), which is what you should be worried about. There are many other ways hackers get in---a firewall and IPS thwarts about 95%, but there are many apps with holes in them. The less services you run, the less chance a hacker has. Running chat with UDP/TCP port 5060 is just plain dumb, actually. You're begging to be attacked, but most in chatrooms are script kiddies. You can get an app that forces all connections in chat to use TCP, and a good router that will use IPS/IDS to reset bad tcp connections and TCP Intercept, setting half-open connect times---I could go on and on...

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tim@tim-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install windows
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package windows...Thank Goodness!