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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

What proxy chains and anonymizers are (for example, Tor)

The term proxy is used in information technology to define a tool or application that acts as an intermediary between a client and a server. Anonymizers are special kinds of proxy tools that can keep activities on the internet untraceable. In other words, anonymizers are special applications that can make activities that are usually traceable between client and server communication on the internet untraceable. Proxy chains are a series of proxy servers that forward traffic to each other. The objective is to provide higher anonymity than usual proxy servers or anonymizers. For example, even if the traffic is sent through a proxy server, from the internet side, it is always possible to detect the proxy IP. If the proxy servers are accessible and proxy server owners are cooperative, the real IP behind the proxy server can even be discovered by analyzing the proxy server logs. Most anonymizers say that they don’t provide information...

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