Best practices to maintain cyber anonymity
We discussed the layers of cyber anonymity and how the different entities collect user information while the user is on the internet. As this process is collecting information in different layers, we need to concentrate on all the layers, not just the browser. The best practices that we are going to discuss here not only concentrate on the browser but also all the layers. Let’s look at some best practices to maintain cyber anonymity:
- Using a VPN – Whenever we connect to the internet, as we discussed, our IP can be collected by the respective web application or service. When you connect to the internet, there will be two IP addresses, called a private IP and public IP address. What they collect is our public IP address, which is assigned to you and is unique. This means there cannot be two devices that have the same public IP address at the same time, which means it will be unique. If you type
ipconfiginto your terminal...