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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 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...

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