How to be completely anonymous online
Being anonymous online is very
difficult in the current Internet landscape that’s filled with companies
and government agencies looking to either keep tabs on your Internet
habits, or to monitor all your communications — but there are ways to be completely anonymous online, a new Wired report reveals.
The best way to hide your Internet routes and patterns is to run the Tor
software, which is a free and open source program that can
triple-encrypt Internet traffic and bounce it through multiple computers
across the world. As a result, location tracking and browsing habits
become increasingly difficult to collect.
Wired
says there are various tools that work with Tor, on top of the
Firefox-based Tor Browser, which is slower than other browsers but
ultimately a safer browsing tool to further guard one’s privacy. Similar browsing tools for mobile devices including Android phones and the iPhone are also available, Wired says, such as the Orbot browser on Android or the Onion browser on iOS.
The
publication also lists several email options for users who want to also
anonymize their digital communications, including Guerrilla Mail, which
provides a temporary, disposable email address. To add encryption to
email messages, a combination of tools can be used to avoid having to
manually scramble them, including “ privacy-focused email host like
Riseup.net, the Mozilla email app Thunderbird, the encryption plugin
Enigmail, and another plugin called TorBirdy that routes its messages
through Tor.”
Similarly, Wired’s
guide mentions Tor-based instant messaging and large file transfer
options, and Tor-based operating systems for the “truly paranoid,” and
the “even more paranoid,” revealing that any potential security breach
that would affect an anonymous system would inevitably lead to the
attackers discovering the location of said system – to read Wired’s report follow the source link below.
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