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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)
1
Part 1: The Basics of Privacy and Cyber Anonymity
4
Part 2: Methods and Artifacts That Attackers and Competitors Can Collect from You
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Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed different ways and techniques that we can maintain cyber anonymity. We discussed methods to maintain cyber anonymity by using virtual machines at the operating system level. Then, we discussed how we can maintain cyber anonymity at the application level, including application and desktop virtualization. Since we mostly access cyberspace using web browsers, we discussed how to prevent tracking on browsers using browser extensions. Browser extensions can prevent tracking and ads while displaying blocked trackers. There are anti-tracking tools that are capable of blocking trackers at the application level. When the trackers create cookies and scripts for use later or by other applications, we can remove them using trace removal programs. When you go through these methods, you will understand that tracking is possible in multiple layers. When it comes to cyber anonymity, we need to plan and maintain all these layers. Leaving traces on even a single...