How to hide your IP address
Passionate write up, very well put and beautifully presented.<p>However, I think that worrying about your IP address and encouraging the same as a major "Security Thing" is missing way more important aspects of IT security.  For many people who follow your line of thinking via your blog and say the ads for VPNs and the like, they might feel they have achieved "security" by obfuscating or hiding one small aspect of their on-line life.<p>Online profiling is generally way more detailed than an IP and will include browser finger printing (agent string) and fonts loading, and much much more with some pretty impressive Javascript tricks.<p>I live at 1 Eldonthingie Road, BendInARiverTown, Summersetshire - I have obfuscated that lot quite a bit but not too much that a determined person could work it out and see where I live.  Back in the day it would be published in the phone book for all to see.<p>There are way more important security enhancements that you can deploy before you worry about VPNs and that.  I only use a VPN when off site and need to get back to the office or home.<p>Today, I was working on a customer site and they have a TLS man in the middle box which buggered up my VPN (OpenVPN on 443/tcp)  That costed them an additional four hours of my time at my rate!