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am i traceable via cookies
however your internet service provider/telecoms company will have an exact record of where you have logged on and for how long. theoretically anything you look at could be traced; to you/to a specific connection
this is how terrorists are caught.
Whats with the paranoia?
Everybody is traceable, you can disable everything on the browser, don't accept cookies, mask your IP number but the phone number you are using can be traced back to your location.
When you say you have a "program" installed that masks your real IP address, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. There are a few such programs available, but very few work as advertised, and very few truly work to protect your privacy. You can make a secure, encrypted connection to a trusted (by you) proxy, and you can chain proxies together to make it more difficult to trace you: but if you are using anonymous proxies, you can't be sure of their level of anonymity unless you have some sort of control over them - and in that case, it would be possible to connect your surfing back to you via your controlling interest in that proxy.
You can use anonymizing services who have a strong financial interest in protecting your privacy, but they are not immune to a court order, for example (a competitor probably couldn't do this, but the appropriate authorities could).
Most of this is paranoia stuff anyway: if you use a dynamic IP address from a large ISP and disable Javascript and cookies, then you're already very difficult to identify. The ISP might be able to identify you, again only with a court order, but that's all.
