HIDING YOUR ID ONLINE.(News)

THERE are many ways to cover your tracks when sending emails or posting items on the internet.

Among the most obvious are creating a false email account to hide your identity and going into an internet cafe to conceal which computer it was sent from.

But there are also more advanced services on the web that allow you to send anonymous emails.

Some allow you to send your email through random 'nodes' making it impossible to trace.

Some even wait for a period of time before sending on the message, making it less likely the sender could be linked to the time it was originally sent.

There are various ways of accessing the internet anonymously. This includes changing your IP address, which involves removing your modem, leaving it for about half an hour and putting it back in. This generates a new address.

People trying to avoid detection could also use a 'proxy server' which masks people's IP address with another.