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An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

By : Kushantha Gunawardana
Book Image

An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

By: Kushantha Gunawardana

Overview of this book

As the world becomes more connected through the web, new data collection innovations have opened up more ways to compromise privacy. Your actions on the web are being tracked, information is being stored, and your identity could be stolen. However, there are ways to use the web without risking your privacy. This book will take you on a journey to become invisible and anonymous while using the web. You will start the book by understanding what anonymity is and why it is important. After understanding the objective of cyber anonymity, you will learn to maintain anonymity and perform tasks without disclosing your information. Then, you’ll learn how to configure tools and understand the architectural components of cybereconomy. Finally, you will learn to be safe during intentional and unintentional internet access by taking relevant precautions. By the end of this book, you will be able to work with the internet and internet-connected devices safely by maintaining cyber anonymity.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1: The Basics of Privacy and Cyber Anonymity
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Part 2: Methods and Artifacts That Attackers and Competitors Can Collect from You
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Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity

Avoiding Behavior Tracking Applications and Browsers

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to implement cyber anonymity and prerequisites to maintain cyber anonymity. When your objective is to maintain cyber economy, you need to think about multiple layers and plan accordingly. To do that, we need to understand the scope and implement the correct internet connection, as that is the medium to connect to cyberspace. When the medium is secured, you need to prepare a device and applications to maintain cybereconomy, as devices and applications track you in different ways.

This chapter explains how to maintain cyber anonymity and discusses the areas and techniques that we can use to maintain cyber anonymity. As we already know, applications and browsers track our behavior using multiple methods, including cookies and location tracking. When interacting with the internet, we also overexpose ourselves and share sensitive information intentionally or unintentionally, which attackers...