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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

Preparing applications for anonymity

Once the devices are suitably set up to provide privacy and anonymity, we need to prepare applications as applications also collect information about users and create privacy challenges. The method for preparing applications for anonymity depends on the type of application. Some applications provide full functionality of the application without the user having to provide their true identity or even any identity. This mechanism is known as anonymity and pseudonymity. Both anonymity and pseudonymity are important concepts in privacy. Applications that support anonymity do not require any identity information or personally identifiable information to provide functionality. In general, these applications do not require users to register before using the app. Apps that support pseudonymity provide functionality once users produce any username, term, or descriptor that’s different from the actual name of the user. In other words, users can use...

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