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Questions tagged [anonymity]

The state of being anonymous. Meaning: not identified by name and not having outstanding, individual, or unusual features that enable identification.

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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How can someone go off-web, and anonymise themselves after a life online?

With data mining tools like Maltego and other correlation tools for large data sets, if we conduct any transactions online assume that these can all be collated to build a good picture of what we do, buy, read etc (hence Google etc). If a normal…
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How to publish scanned documents anonymously?

I was thinking of the following question for a long time and did not find a lot of material* in the web and nothing at all on Security.SE. I think its a very interesting question as it covers different anonymization measures (or counter measures to…
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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% foolproof ways? I suspect that 100% may be…
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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 so on, but in practice trying to do anything in…
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Assuming I'm using Starbucks Wifi, is there a point of using a VPN if I want to remain anonymous?

Wouldn't using Starbucks Wifi make me somewhat anonymous since my ip address would be the same as other users connected to the same network? Therefore, no need to use a VPN assuming I don't want the website I'm connected to know my identify. Of…
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can I identify the origin computer for a program?

I am Developing a program in several platforms and languages, But I don't want anybody to discover the origin computer where the program was developed, is there any way that someone can discover that ?
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Circumventing Device Fingerprinting

Regarding the concept of device (browser) fingerprinting, would it be possible for the user to spoof fingerprinting data by giving random information such that your fingerprint changes after every request? If so, are there any plugins/browsers that…
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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 authentication. The problem is that I'm afraid that they…
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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 enough problems to solve that this feels like the…
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Anonymously Collect Information Online

Is it possible to collect user information on our website without knowing any information (IP address, etc.) about our users? For example, we've been presented a situation where we're supposed to collect information about possible security issues.…
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Annonymity through prepaid mobile plans

In my country you can buy a prepaid plan without ID. Lets say I buy two 4G dongles, connect both of them to a Rasperry Pi, pipe my connection trough the first dongle to the second dongle, hide the Pi in a public building ceiling and power it from…
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how does a site know it is me even after changing ip address and clearing cookie?

There is this one website that won't let me connect from my PCs connected to the same router. I tried turning off the router, wait 15 minutes, restart it to make sure it gets a different ip address from my ISP. I also tried TOR browser and ZenMate…
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How can I publish text and video without revealing my identity?

Let's I want to publish online a fiction book and a series of videos for promoting it. Let's further assume that the book challenges some widely held views and it is possible that people will hat me for that. However, no part of the book breaks…
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Is a prepaid SIM-card with 3G data anonymous?

Say I buy a prepaid sim-card with 3g data and put it in a used 3g modem (dongle) or a used smartphone and then create a Hotspot. How would it technically be traced back to me? The ISP should see a Mac/IMEI of a device that isnt linked to me, and…
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How do you safely research dangerous websites?

A university course has tasked my wife with researching websites that would, I imagine, get her placed on an FBI watchlist. Their advice is to not provide any PII, do not interact with anyone, and do not download anything. Aside from going…
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