According to the Swiss security researcher who runs Abuse.ch, the use of free proxy services like Glype, Tor, and others have an option which allows administrators to log the traffic flowing through their proxy server on the Glype network.

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And yet, once we were past the inevitable log-jam on the Peripherique, traffic in the city moved relatively freely.

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Their business is driven by the symbiotic alliance between the Net's outer edge, where individual users log on by the millions, and its inner core, where the big traffic moves.

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Behind the scenes, data traffic for the sites from regular customers was directed to a series of virtual traps, known as sinkholes, that log information about who is trying to use the service.

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