I use the latest tor/privoxy combo to surf.
I also use Zone Alarm. When I do an online
ipid at noreply.org, I get proxy url's, but
in Zone Alarm, all the Source IP and Destination
IP's from packets - are from my own ISP. How come?
I thought tor/privoxy invisibled you..

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> I use the latest tor/privoxy combo to surf. I also use Zone Alarm. When I
> do an online ipid at noreply.org, I get proxy url's, but in Zone Alarm,
> all the Source IP and Destination IP's from packets - are from my own ISP.
> How come? I thought tor/privoxy invisibled you..

It does. But not to yourself. 

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> It does. But not to yourself.

Explain please.

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Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
 
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> Explain please.

Of course you're going to see your own IP address when examining
connections at your own machine. Zone Alarm is seeing things before
they're sent through the Tor network... before they're made anonymous.
Noreply is seeing them on the other side of the Tor network, after they've
left your machine, and been routed through three other Tor servers.

Think about it as though you were passing a hose through a wall. You, on
one side of the wall can see the pump that's forcing water through the
hose. Someone on the other side of the wall has no idea where the water
comes from, just that it's coming from somewhere on the opposite side of
that wall. Your machine is the pump, and you and Zone Alarm are the
plumbers watching it run. Noreply is the outsider, watching the water flow
but unable to see the pump or the plumbers running it. The Tor network
would be like the wall, allowing the watter to pass through it but keeping
people on the outside from seeing where the water is really coming from.

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