Hello people,

First of all, I do not really know where privacy-related threads should be posted, so I apologize if this is the wrong place .

I was wondering if my understanding of dial-ups and ISP is correct.
Say you have a dial-up connection. When you connect to your ISP, an ip address is attributed to your machine. When you access the outside world, you go through the ISP's proxy. So far so good?
So when you access a certain website, the server hosting that website logs your connection as coming from your ISP, not you directly. Still correct?

However, the ISP keeps logs (I suppose) of what sites were accessed. In that case, they should have your assigned ip logged as having requested a connection to that particular website. Do they also keep a log of what users were logged at the time and which ip they were assigned?

If the above is correct, then an ISP could, in theory, have a listing of everything you ever did while you were connected through them.
Is there any way of evading that? Such as connecting through another proxy after your isp's or having your connection encrypted (as over ssh)?

Cheers,

cold_connection