What is a proxy server? What function does it serve?

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A proxy is an intermediary server that receives and analyzes requests from clients and then directs them to their destinations. Any network connection requires a handshake between the device and the server, so that the device's IP address, along with its location, is exposed. Hiding that information usually requires handing off the transmission to a proxy. The transmission then appears to come from the proxy, not the actual sender. A drawback to using the proxy server to ensure anonymity is the need to rely on the company that operates the proxy and its promise to protect its customers' identities. Another approach depends instead on a distributed network of servers. The encrypted transmission is relayed from one server to the next, and no single server has access to all the addresses that relayed any particular message.

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The "installed base" relates to direct network externalities in what way?

a. The base technology employed determines how broad the market will be. b. The installed base and direct network externalities increase in direct relationship. c. The installed base and direct network externalities increase in an inverse relationship. d. The installed base refers to how many additional products will spin off, adding value to the direct network base. e. No relationship exists between installed base and direct network externalities.

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The hierarchy of needs model of motivation is attributable to ______.

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