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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
9
Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity

Uvrx Social Search

There are huge amounts of data stored on the internet, which is searchable by general search engines such as Google and Bing. The term searchable internet was purposely used in many chapters, as the internet possesses huge space besides a searchable internet, which is known as the dark web. This is not searchable using common search engines. Chapter 9, Avoiding Behavior Tracking Applications and Browsers, will provide more information about the dark web.

Many online file storage systems host large amounts of data separate from the dark web or the searchable internet. Many users make use of free or commercial versions of online storage to store and share files with themselves or between communities. These storage systems may also contain important and useful data.

Uvrx is a very comprehensive search engine initially designed to search online file storage. Currently, Uvrx supports three types of comprehensive searches:

  • File Search
  • Social Search
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