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for those already familiar with the function of a proxy server there's a

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good chance that the mere mention of them brings up images ranging from that

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of your friendly network engineer to those of Steampunk inspired hackers

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brandishing ridiculous looking headgear and while these two extremes are not

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totally incorrect as far as examples go they don't exactly represent the

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entirety of the spectrum either now originally proxy servers were

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instrumental in allowing multiple computers on local network to access the

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internet without their IP addresses conflicting but the invention of an IP

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remapping method known as Network address translation allowed this

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capability to be inexpensively integrated into routers but just because

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proxies are no longer needed to connect to the internet doesn't mean they have

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fallen completely out of use it turns out that there are still quite a few

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functional roles that proxies can serve for those operating on a network one

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role is squid style caching which can be used to store things like frequently

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accessed Online files downloads and updates eliminating the need for a

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Network's worth of users to download said materials individually this not

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only has the benefit of greatly increasing transfer speeds because files

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are now taken from a private network instead of over the internet but hey if

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you're in Canada it might also have an impact on your overall bandwidth limits

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as well and proxy networks can be used in conjunction with special tunneling

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protocols to act as a security gatekeeper verifying or encrypting

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packets routed through it depending on their direction of travel recent demands

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for increased security among businesses and individuals alike has led to Greater

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use of these Services known as vpns which businesses use in an effort to

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shield things like their customers monetary information or internal company

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data that they need to be able to access remotely and indiv uals use for well

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similar reasons and also things like accessing online services that are

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region locked or skirting around overzealous governmental intrusion and

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censorship so to better explain this aspect of proxy server functionality

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will turn to one of my ever popular analogies let's say your uh PC IP

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address sitting at your local uh internet bar or whatever when suddenly

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you spy this beautiful lus Tech tips Forum site two doors down the street in

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the window of a foreign bar now although theoretically you should be able to walk

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down and take a peek at that foreign website's content in reality there is a

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bouncer named The Great firewall who prevents you from entering so what you

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have to do then is go next door to your

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boy the proxy servers Place who is able

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to let you slip into the foreign Club through a side door because they can't

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tell that you came from you know scrub land internet cafe or whatever the case

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may be you can score that with websites binary digits and sneak back out without

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them ever knowing where you came from but with all of that said we've painted

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proxy servers with a rainbow colored brush so far and they're not purely used

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as a Force for good while most people have honest intentions when using proxy

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services to discreetly Cruise the web a small percentage of users including the

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fashionably challenged hackers I mentioned before use them for attacks

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including what is referred to as a manin the-middle attack which disguises an

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intrusion into a system as legitimate IP traffic originating from a proxy this is

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particularly worrisome because it can end up painting a very large red Target

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on those servers which contain copious amounts of valuable information because

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as the old saying goes one man's cash is another man's treasure or something

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along those lines so while automated data caching can be tremendous for

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reducing little headaches the big headaches that can result if your IT

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staff isn't on the ball and some compromis files slip through and push to

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an entire network of PCS is a clear potential downside speaking of clear

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potential downsides I can't think of one for Cooler Master they make great cases

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power supplies fans they've got laptop coolers they've got all kinds of great

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stuff and probably the best thing though about Cooler Master is just like this

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series of videos they're all about actually legitimately educating their

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user so if you check out Cooler Master University on their website they've got

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great information that helps you make an educated decision about whether it's

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something like a CPU Cooler or whether it's something like a case or a mouse

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they've got lots of great peripherals like mice and keyboards and uh oh also

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they do a bunch of community outreach as well so stuff like their case mod World

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Series which was running very recently and allowed anyone with a Dremel or I

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mean really even if you just had a screwdriver if you could use it really creatively to enter their case modding

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contest cool guys there's a link to them in the video description so if you're

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considering a PC upgrade definitely check them out and I think that's pretty

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