The state of being anonymous. Meaning: not identified by name and not having outstanding, individual, or unusual features that enable identification.
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Why is data privacy important? [closed]
I am finding it difficult to motivate the importance of data privacy when speaking to both more or less technically inclined people. Since selling the idea of security is a fundamental precondition to ...
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How to avoid leaving any local trace that I went to a website?
I want to visit a web site, but I want to ensure there is no trace left on my computer that I did so. How do I do that?
This question is not concerned with anonymity or detection on the network ...
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How to prevent CAS from leaking user identity to arbitrary visited websites?
Summary
evil.example.com could use a hidden frame to request a CAS ticket from corporation.example.net, then validate it to receive the username of the hapless user. This effectively deanonymizes the ...
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Can BitTorrent clients be fingerprinted?
As https://panopticlick.eff.org/ demonstrates, web browsers are very prone to fingerprinting, both active and passive (often you can fingerprint a web browser by simply monitoring the wire).
My ...
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Where (which hoster) and how do I get a fast VPN? [closed]
I am interested in subscribing to an existing VPN service or host one myself.
The Problem is, that I have 150 Mbit/s downstream, which I don't want to be reduced by using said VPN.
Are there any ...
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Surfing anynomously
For work I often go to China, and there I met some dissidents I would like to help.
I need to upload some videos to an ftp server in europe.
I will connect through a public hotspot without ...
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Can the use of GPS devices leak personal identifiable information?
When you use a GPS device, satellite signals are used to give you your position. It seems reasonable to assume that information about the device you're using may be transmitted to the satellite as ...
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How to remain 100% anonymous on the internet?
I was searching for methods or tools to remain completely anonymous on the internet. TOR came up but it is seems that it is far from perfect. Are there any 100% foolproof ways ? Or approximately 100% ...
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How to be completely anonymous online?
I recently saw this post on reddit: http://www.slashgeek.net/2012/06/15/how-to-be-completely-anonymous-online/
But the majority argument, both on reddit and on comments on that post seems to be that ...
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Does using an http proxy completely hide my real IP address?
If I obscure my IP by going through a free http proxy and visit a page, will that site's admin ever be able to find out my true IP or anything related to my true connection/info?
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How was Lulzsec caught? [closed]
I saw that the leader connected to IRC without using TOR and they traced their IP address, but the identity of each member was supposed to be unknown to the others. So even if the leader was acting as ...
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How does “check.torproject.org.” know if you're using TOR?
I'm looking at the results from the following URL and would like to know how does the TOR website "know" that TOR is being used or not.
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Message ID and Real IP of the email sender [duplicate]
How I get Real IP of an email sender using Message ID of the said mail?
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Make online payments anonymously?
Is there a service/company which allows you to make anonymous payments online ?
This is how i want the service to work - Just like a credit/debit card. When you make the payment online, instead of ...
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Advanced techniques for detecting a proxy/getting original IP
In what manner can a website detect my original IP address, even though I'm using a proxy server? I've noticed this with a few sites. There are four proxy methods I've used:
Firefox with a proxy ...
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What devices/types of devices typically have unique associated ID numbers?
Background (not necessary to read; just what makes me ask):
Say someone's computer has either been hacked, or is running software run by $LARGE_EVIL_CORPORATION, and the hacker/$L wants to collect as ...
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How to browse the Internet safely?
What is the best way to browse the Internet safely? By safely I mean:
anonymously
having encrypted communication
Extra bonus for:
being able to do it with little or no performance impact
cheaply ...
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Cellphone where I don't have to worry about location tracking [duplicate]
I'd like to use a cellphone, but I don't want to have my location tracked. Richard Stallman told once that there was a cellphone without GPS. If I can find a phone without a GPS, would that ensure I ...
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Does portforwarding present a risk to anonymity?
AirVPN by default has all ports closed but allows port-forwarding. I think this is required for P2P. Is this a threat to anonymity (e.g. would the person at the other end of the P2P transmission know ...
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Mutual Anonymity in key exchange
If Alice (sender) sends a private message embedded with public key of the Bob(recipient) through onion network, so in this key exchange, does Bob remains anonymous to Alice as Alice knows about the ...
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Anonymized Votes
Background
Looking to create an anonymous voting system. The system must track whether or not a user voted on an item (public information), but only that user is ever allowed to know whether they ...
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Whats the best way to make my internet traffic anonymous?
Recently I have thought more and more about how to make my Internet traffic anonymous. Not for illegal reasons, but just to stop leaving information about me. The methods I know of to anonymize my ...
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Tor traffic seems to be exiting from different Tor exit nodes - is that expected?
I seem to be observing some odd behaviour whilst experimenting with TOR. It's entirely possible this is just my own ignorance as well, in which case I would appreciate some ...
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Is a TOR router really safer than a proxy?
If I use a tor router to browse the regular internet that it has to leave the TOR network through an exit node. Apparently the exit node has all the information from the original user it came from on ...
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how to trace a hacker [closed]
How to trace a hacker how knows what he is doing.He covered all and what now?
I em interested how hackers stay anonymous and don t get caught and what are the techniques used by forensic ...
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When connecting to internet through VPN what precautions should be taken?
I've read this similar question and it has some very good information. Can a site that has personal information about you be accessed by another site to determine who you are/where you are? For ...
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What are the best practices for maintaining privacy on a non-jailbroken iOS device?
iOS, like most other mobile OSs, has the potential to leak significant chunks of personal information to 3rd-party apps and to ad and tracking networks used by those apps, which in turn also has the ...
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Allow users to vote anonymously *once* [duplicate]
I would like to add functionality to a site which would allow users to view a large collection of articles and cast a vote if they liked the content. Article votes can only be positive (upvoted).
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Mobile Broadband, e-Fraud & Anonymity Against My Website [closed]
I was wanting to know if the blend in the title of this post provides e-criminals an open field to explore.
What I mean is this: say a fraudster goes and buys a pay-as-go SIM card from a certain ...
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Patient Hashes for Compression and Security
Are there any front-running approaches to using server-generated hashes to encapsulate patient condition in a concise manner while maximizing security?
For example, a system to represent current med ...
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What are darknets, and how can they be used to provide security and anonymity in network communication?
One of the major problems with the internet is that it's difficult to stay anonymous while retaining the ability to communicate with a large number of people. While encryption can be done effectively ...
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How can I keep my identity anonymous as a website owner/administrator?
My question looks touchy, but I'll do my best to explain. You see, I live in country where democratic rules are quite, well, delusive.
In theory, there is freedom of speech, democratic elections and ...
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How much can I trust Tor?
Greetings.
How much can I depend on Tor for anonymity? Is it completely secure? My usage is limited to accessing Twitter and Wordpress.
I am a political activist from India and I do not enjoy the ...
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What privacy methods exist for P2P transfers?
I love my VPN, it gives me to a certain extent privacy from isp & to what I connect.
I also use P2P to get & provide data, but I would like to create a level of privacy. What methods exist ...
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Is it possible for a third party to sniff data off the line to an ISP and determine what the user is doing?
Can somebody hack the line between my router and service provider and monitor what I'm doing online and what sites I'm visiting?
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how to become a untraceable hacker [closed]
I em a pentester and I wanted to know what to you think about untraceable hackers.
They can use TOR ,OTR,VPN NO LOGS,COMPROMISED PC AS A PROXY-BOTNET PROXY,CHANGE MAC,EDIT LOGS,AND all of that ,but ...
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Books/sites recommendation about online anonymity [closed]
I am specifically looking for 'books to read' and 'blogs and forums to follow' in the interest of knowming more about preserving and maintaining anonymity and privacy in online world. Not so much on ...
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What are the pros and cons of a VPN for privacy
Recently I have been getting more and more interested in the security (privacy and anonymity) issues of my online life. Not that I have anything to hide, or that what I do online is so interesting to ...
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Possible ways to track down anonymous mail senders?
In my previous post here How can I send emails anonymously? the community framed and guided how we can send an anonymous emails through various ways which makes me thought about the following things
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How prevent Javascript from obtaining my location
I usually use a proxy server to browse anonymously. Now I realize that it is possible to find the location of a user using the Geolocation API. How to anonymously browse without disabling Javascript?
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How can I send emails anonymously?
How can I send email anonymously? We used to track email's IP and its location based upon the email headers, and there are many possible ways to track the email's id's which were sent by the anonymous ...
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TOR and sniffing data
If I'm not mistaken, TOR works opening a random anonymous path between two hosts using others computers that have TOR installed no?
Then... everybody can sniff the data of the others no? Just wait ...
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Any (free) reverse proxy service out there? [closed]
Tor hidden services is really nice, but when one has to share content with non-Tor users he need something more general - a reverse proxy. I wonder if there are any free ones out there?
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How to suspend a user from my website and prevent them from creating a second account?
I am an outsourcing person, not a programmer. My website is a shopping website (think eBay). My website will need a user suspension feature, in case a user violates the terms and conditions. The ...
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How far should I go in creating anonymity?
I am in the early design stages of a system (QuestGuide) to help researchers gather information (arbitrarily complex), analyze it, annotate it, visualize it, and, ultimately, share it. There are ...
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How anonymous is my setup?
my friend and I are trying to make the most anonymous setup for a computer to do things across the internet without being known the location from which it came.
Our setup is as follows:
A windows ...
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I am looking for a solution of Virtual Humint [closed]
I am looking for a Virtual Humint solution.
This solution should be used by investigators to collect data by hand from open sources such as web, social networks, chat, etc.
by using a ghost/marked ...
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What level of anonymity do VPNs provide?
When I use VPN is entire Internet usage protected or only some subset of traffic? For example,
Is my IMAP email provider only going to see VPN's IP address?
Is my DNS provider only going to see ...
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anonymization for scanning and hacking
What kind of anonymization can be used for scanning and exploiting? Of course there are VPNs and VPS, but thats a different story. I know some scanning can be done via TOR, but how can an exploit or ...
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Learn IP address of sender of a self-destructing email
How can I know the IP address of the sender who sent me a self-destructing email? If not the IP address... what all information can be extracted?
