Collaborate Disseminate
I have manually scraped multiple pages of search results on Google and haven’t found a single suggestion as to how to find an optimal k when you are trying to "k-anonymize" your dataset. All I can find is the obvious fact that &q… Continue reading How choose a k for k-anonymity?
If I connect to a VPN, go to some websites, post something or browse something, is it possible for my OS (Windows 10) in this case to:
Store my IP before I connected to the VPN, say "old IP".
Get my new IP after I connect.
Send … Continue reading Could an OS or app store and send my old IP after I start using a VPN?
I have encountered the term "sensitive attribute" multiple times when reading up on the concept of k-anonimity — but the texts never formally define what this term means.
Take this example of a k-anonymized table from Wikipedia:… Continue reading What is the definition of "sensitive attribute" in the context of k-anonimity?
Websites release statistics on their user base all the time and it’s not considered a breach of privacy because their user bases are so large that it’s impossible to pick apart who thinks or watches what. Additionally when nations or state… Continue reading How many people would need to answer a survey of 1000 questions before the aggregate data from the survey is sufficiently anonymous?
Facebook tends to "recommend" your account based on IP and collected data. How do I keep it hidden from people that are geographically related to me? I want to create a pseudo-anonymous account that isn’t linked to my real identi… Continue reading How do I prevent my Facebook and Instagram acccount from appearing in "people you may know" recommendations?
I stumbled upon this weird product in a webstore primarily selling Cannabis-related products (not the actual herbs): https://smoketower.com/nyheter/Anonym-3310-mobiltelefon
I’ve manually translated the Swedish product description for you i… Continue reading What makes this cellphone (and the weird instructions) so privacy-friendly?
First of all I am not a "computer person" and I’m not going to spend a year learning more about computer stuff so I don’t have to ask questions here. I’ve searched for similar questions, and while they provided some advice, much … Continue reading Preventing facebook from recognizing me
According to the man page, ssh by default sends multiple public keys from files in the ~/.ssh folder, one by one, until authentication success. Does that mean that the server side could know multiple (possibly all of) the client’s public k… Continue reading ssh and anonymity?
If you were in a Five Eyes country and you wanted to contact someone else anonymously, without this person or the government finding out who you are or your location, how would you do it?
The person you are contacting does not know you and… Continue reading Staying anonymous vs a Five Eyes adversary?
VPNs can often be useful for obscuring personably identifying information (IP, geolocation, etc.) from remote destination servers.
Traffic is routed through a VPN server and forwarded to the destination. As far as the remote destination se… Continue reading Hiding client IP from a VPN server