Anonymity spilled much ink over the last 5 years, particularly since the advent of social networks, but especially since the birth of anti-piracy laws.
Being anonymous on the Internet has become a luxury, and many loans to pay for internet anonymize their connection and their traces on the net.
Concretely, what does anonymity?
Being anonymous means to remain unknown, unidentifiable. Anonymity ensures compliance with its own privacy. Anonymous be possible to feel safe, to surf consequences. And finally, anonymity can sometimes be used to override the law.
Why be anonymous on the Internet?
After all, if we do not illegally download, if no one pirate, there he has a real reason to be anonymous?
The problem with the Internet is that various data are collected on us without our noticing. This seems trivial, but the importance of these data can quickly tip the balance.
What data are collected?
Did you know that:
Facebook robots literally read your private messages in order to better target advertisements?
Your IP address, cookies, information about your browser, your browsing habits, your plain transmitted data can be recovered or intercepted easily?
The SpyWare destroy anything on your system, but recover all sorts of information about your computer and especially YOU for various purposes (especially marketing)?
The recent revelation by a British newspaper called the existence of the PRISM surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) shows that Google, Facebook, Yahoo etc ... are associated with the program to monitor the Internet?
Google knows more about you than your mother. For example, Google knows and retains all the terms you've been looking for, see here: https://history.google.com/history/ (provided they are connected to an account)
The data you think you have deleted a website, blog, forum ... etc are still online and visible to everyone?
This is only part just tip of the iceberg.
How to become totally anonymous on the internet?
Format your computer, turn it off, unplug it and move.
Well, it works, but we will try to find a way to stay home and keep our data.
Several options are available, but not worth all.
1. Use a proxy
A proxy server is also called a proxy server, it can connect to a website for you then transfer your data. The site visited by proxy is not visited by yourself and do not know you.
Proxies often embark many options like disabling cookies, Java applets ... etc.
However, there was a problem with the data retransmission time. If you connect to a proxy Indonesian, you definitely wait seconds more good than from your own connection to each link clicked.
There are also several types of proxies, proxies so-called "elite" guarantee optimal anonymity while other basic proxies still allow to find your IP address, so to find you.
To configure a proxy server for Firefox is simple enough, addons are made to, here FoxProxy: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/
With such Chrome, here Proxy Switchy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proxy-switchy/caehdcpeofiiigpdhbabniblemipncjj
I pass the technical details for the installation because I believe that the above site will teach you enough.
There are also web proxies, these websites to make navigation for you and show you the result without setting directly.
(Attention, many sites like Facebook using Ajax do not really work with web proxies)
Proxies do not guarantee a 100% anonymous, it is possible from them to find your IP address on demand, for example from justice.
2. Use the Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
VPNs based on a tunneling protocol. This is a protocol to encapsulate and to encrypt the transferred data. We are talking tunnel because the information can not be read during the transfer.
Companies often use VPNs to place multiple geographical sites on the same LAN. Networked games can also use this technology with software like Hamachi.
The connection between the user and the VPN server is encapsulated in a VPN tunnel, no one can read the data, not even the ISP. Connection speed is better than for proxies because the connection is direct between the user and the VPN server.
The problem again is that everything depends on the service provider. If it is trusted, anonymity is guaranteed, as is the case for HideMyAss.
Since HideMyAss is always in English at the moment, I've prepared an article here to show you how to install it.
Already know that:
You will be completely anonymous on the Internet, the traffic will be encrypted regardless of where you are.
You will get free anonymous IP addresses.
The encryption standards are those used by governments.
All websites will be censored for you.
All applications will be anonymized (because all your connection go through a tunnel).
Using a VPN is a good solution, but it also has a cost.
3. Use the TOR network
TOR (The Onion Router) is a global network routers. A user's connection goes through several computers in the world called nodes.
The connections between nodes are encrypted, in fact it is impossible to recover the original user.
The site that the user tries to visit therefore see that the last node IP.
TOR is distributed as open source and free software every Internet user can become a node. However, TOR (very) slow since the connection goes through several nodes.
Although digital is highly recommended to be anonymous on the Internet, be aware that cyber police have no other means that the infiltration. Agents therefore also use TOR to see what happens there.
Conclusion
We saw that being anonymous on the Internet is not very obvious, the ideal will already start with a VPN.
That said, we are going to push a little more explanation:
Most VPN record the real IP addresses of Internet users for some time. This is not to track you but to respond in the event of a serious problem and demand from justice (what is called in France a legal requisition).
Because if you are part of an organization of cyber terrorists to hack banks or whatever there still a chance that the VPN service is brought to your information if the authorities are asking.
And not only the VPN service will give the information, but Facebook, Google and many others will also do without problems.
So an anonymous point of view on the internet for 99.99% of the tasks, you are anonymous with a VPN.
If you are a user who simply want to hide his identity here and there, the NSA will not get you up ...
By cons, if you try to be anonymous for the wrong reason, namely to illegal activities, you are playing with fire regardless of the means you use and I would not take the risk for you ... There 'Anonymity "and" anonymity ".
To learn more and furthering all the explanations we have just seen, I invite you to download our guide Secrets anonymity. I will teach you such amazing things qu'effrayantes, particularly in relation to the fact that data you supposedly deleted are still visible on the net, and everyone can find them. That even though you initiated legal proceedings delete data, in particular via the famous form of Google.......
I founded the Blog DepoTech in January 2015. Self-taught in development, I have always pushed my curiosity about the topics,Web and Tech news.
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