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Why do websites have to be about specific subjects or niches?  Well right here they don’t Cipec.org contains hundreds of articles from the last decade covering all sorts of subjects.   We hope an online magazine with a slight bias towards technology and social justice.

Over the years many of the articles have covered my own personal wanderings of the internet.  After Twenty years working in informational technology for a variety of Blue chip companies and travelling all over the UK and Europe – I now work from home.

My family and friends were jealous of hearing that I was working in Sweden or Holland or France simply because it sounded so exciting.  Unfortunately it wasn’t, sure I visited those countries, sure I met some nice people.  Yet the reality is that many companies are not based in lovely tourist friendly locations but more often in industrial units miles from anywhere.

So now I work from home, using the internet as my workplace.  Much of this has been possible due to the use of proxies a subject you’ll find covered in detail on these pages.

Why Proxies are Important

I use to install them in the early 90s and nobody had much idea what they did.  Before the internet became mainstream there was actually little need for the proxy server technology.  Yet when people started using the internet at work – the proxies or web gateways became invaluable.  Without proxies every client computer would have a unique, direct connection to the internet – a security and logistical nightmare (yet still many do it!).

The proxy server acted as a guardian to the network often sitting in the DMZ routing traffic both to and from the internet.  The advantage is that you can filter, log and control everything as it passed through the proxy.  It was also much easier to check for viruses and malware on a single point rather than thousands of desktops and laptops.

From this beginning, proxies moved out into the wild and developed into a different way. Instead of a means to control traffic and filter, the proxy became an essential privacy tool.  If you want to keep your web activity private then using a proxy was vital.  A proxy could hide your online activity and your IP address, preventing any site from tracking you across the web.

This is the proxy server configuration which has literally changed my life.  Using a proxy allows anyone to operate multiple identities online without any issues.   I can run my web promotion tools through proxies to avoid them getting blocked.  I can use a few residential proxies to run my multiple Instagram accounts.  I have bought proxies and  used them to enable automated software to buy limited demand items to resell