Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
This question to Misha makes me nervious. Hanna don't we know that Internet is not such a secure or safe place?
It's nice that you look out for forum members!

But is Iran really like USSR under Stalin? I mean, that people can't even express an opinion?

Plus: It's quite hard work to trace people online. You need a lot of resources and incentive. The person would have to be suspected of something quite major for it to be worth it. Ideally it needs cooperation from the site owner.

It's really only reasonably feasible if the both the site and the person are in the same country.

Alternatively the ISP can usually see what sites you visit but not precisely what you did there.

Using a separate proxy, or a VPN tunnel more or less solves that problem. I have read that people in China do that when they want to be sure to have online privacy.

I think it's a very good idea for most people to use a proxy when surfing the internet.

I2P and TOR offer completely anonymous and very safe internet browsing, but it's quite slow.