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An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

You're reading from   An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity Concepts, tools, and techniques to protect your anonymity from criminals, unethical hackers, and governments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810210
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kushantha Gunawardana Kushantha Gunawardana
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics of Privacy and Cyber Anonymity
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Sensitive Information FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Ways That Attackers Use Your Data 4. Part 2: Methods and Artifacts That Attackers and Competitors Can Collect from You
5. Chapter 3: Ways That Attackers Reveal the Privacy of Individuals and Companies 6. Chapter 4: Techniques that Attackers Use to Compromise Privacy 7. Chapter 5: Tools and Techniques That Attackers Use 8. Chapter 6: Artifacts that Attackers Can Collect from You 9. Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity
10. Chapter 7: Introduction to Cyber Anonymity 11. Chapter 8: Understanding the Scope of Access 12. Chapter 9: Avoiding Behavior Tracking Applications and Browsers 13. Chapter 10: Proxy Chains and Anonymizers 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we went through making our presence online anonymous. We learned how to set up cyber anonymity and what is required to maintain cyber anonymity. We also discussed how to become anonymous online under five main topics, as follows:

  • Understanding the scope of access
  • Planning for connectivity
  • Understanding the level of access
  • Preparing the device
  • Preparing applications for anonymity

First, we tried to understand the scope of access for various apps and services, and then we discussed how to plan connectivity with the objective of maintaining anonymity. We also discussed various levels of access for different resources we use in today’s world. Then, we discussed how to prepare a device to be anonymous, including secure operating systems, virtual machines, and live boot systems, which support anonymity. The last topic we discussed was how we can prepare apps to support anonymity.

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