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Old June 9th, 2005
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Yes, but it means unplugging your machine from the internet.

As long as you are connected to the internet, your IP address will respond to requests of many kinds.

You cannot even get Mail without an IP address. Your email address gets translated into an IP address in order to get to your computer.

Google for "secure file-sharing" to see how far away any internet activity is from being secure and anonymous for the majority of internet users
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