How do hackers really achieve "anonymity"?

Posted by Somebody still uses you MS-DOS on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Somebody still uses you MS-DOS
Published on 2010-05-14T11:39:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 12:24 UTC
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I asked if proxies really provide anonymity, and would like to know how hackers do it when they try to attack government websites and such.

They hack PCs making them zombies and them controlling them, using their victim's IP address for example? They connect to it using a VPN, what?

(I'm just curious)

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