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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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Anonymized Votes
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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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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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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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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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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 make database of IP addresses anonymous?
I have to perform ip address connection stats anonymously because the data posses security risk, so how do I do it?
Is it just like this, that the ip numbers and networks are replaced by random ...
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Anonymous proxy over SSL [closed]
Can you name any anonymous proxy software that don't use VPN connections? Basically, I'm analyzing different encrypted traffic and now I need to analyse a simple anonymity proxy traffic. I'm analyzing ...
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Are there any anonymous OpenID providers similar to Gawker's “burner”?
Gwaker has an anonymous commenting system called Burner. It is offered as an alternative to Facebook, Twitter and Google.
What's the difference between Burner and creating a throwaway Google , ...
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What do the various browser “private modes” do?
Recently there has been some disagreement as to what "private mode" means when it comes to various browsers.
Primarily I am referring to...
IE's "InPrivate Browsing"
Google Chrome's "Incognito ...
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Improving the privacy of a casual Web user
I am interested in improving the privacy available to me as a casual internet user with a default browser. I think that Tor is too slow and that the "Privacy Mode" in browsers isn't really practical. ...
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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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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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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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How to prevent private data being disclosed to unwanted audience over internet?
Everyday, in order to subscribe to certain services on the Internet we are almost forced to disclose private data even though those services don't necessarily require it.
For example, I need to ...
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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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Can too much web searching be a danger to a security professional?
As a junior security professional, I spend a lot of time goggling for things such as 'wpa dictionaries', 'vulnerabilities...' , 'how to crack ...','and so on.
I sometimes feel like I am calling for ...
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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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Why does one need a high level of privacy/anonymity for legal activities?
This question is sort-of spun off of a previous one.
How to counter the statement: "You don't need (strong) security if you're not doing anything illegal"?
There are a lot of great ...
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Different strategies for online anonymity and their +/-s?
I saw this question about anonymous web browser, but I wanted to go a little bit more in depth. I prefer answers that take into account how a connection would be traced back, time it would take to ...
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Anonymous web browser. Is it real?
Do anonymous browsers work? What principles do they use? Can I use them to test access to my web site? Can I detect if a visitor is using one? What is the different between traditional and anonymous ...
