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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 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...

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