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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the tools and techniques that can be used to maintain cyber anonymity, using proxy chains and anonymizers and taking Tor as an example, using censorship circumvention, taking Psiphon as an example, using a live OS, with Tails as an example, a range of VPN solutions and how VPN solutions can protect your privacy, and logless services, with Whonix as an example.

After this chapter, readers will understand what proxy chains and anonymizers are and improve their knowledge on censorship circumvention, understand how live OSes maintain anonymity and how they work, understand how VPN techniques work and maintain cyber anonymity, and finally, understand how to use logless services to maintain cyber anonymity.

Cyber anonymity is very essential, as most devices, applications, and browsers collect information on every single activity that you perform in cyberspace. Once you know how to maintain cyber anonymity, depending on what your objective is, it...