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Darknet: A Beginner's Guide to Staying Anonymous
Want to surf the web anonymously? This book is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to cloak their online activities. Whether you're on Usenet, Facebook, P2P, or browsing the web with standard browsers like Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer, I will show you how to become a ghost on the internet, leaving no tracks back to your isp, or anyone else. This book covers every facet of encrypting your private data, securing your pc, masking your online footsteps, and gives you peace of mind with TOTAL 100% ANONYMITY on the internet.
- Learn how to mask your online identity with *every* site or protocol you use online
- In depth guides on Tor, Freenet, I2P, Proxies, VPNs, Usenet and much, much, more!
- Learn about basic mistakes that even advanced hackers make every day that give them away
- Learn which programs make you a ghost on the internet, and which shine the spotlight on you!
- Get 100% security with online *and* offline computer habits!
- Learn how to mask your online identity with *every* site or protocol you use online
- In depth guides on Tor, Freenet, I2P, Proxies, VPNs, Usenet and much, much, more!
- Learn about basic mistakes that even advanced hackers make every day that give them away
- Learn which programs make you a ghost on the internet, and which shine the spotlight on you!
- Get 100% security with online *and* offline computer habits!
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First published June 11, 2012
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February 10, 2021
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night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: Author, not even hiding the heightened sense of paranoia, tells us the how and what destroys anonymity and makes us vulnerable, even those of us who feel like they have nothing to hide or no one to hide from. As well as steps and tools required to prevent this.
My Opinion: Let’s face it, most of us now and again toss the anonymity for sake of convenience. Why register to that site you want to purchase candy from, if you an log in with facebook? Why would you log out before closing the browser? Why would you use that other, safer, but way slower one? What do you mean turn off java and use less add-on’s?… The book explains what happens, why it happens, to whom it is beneficial, and what can we do to avoid being someone’s product to be sold in a form of data. I will disappoint you and spoil it: pressing a single button on a VPN you just bought is not enough.
night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: Author, not even hiding the heightened sense of paranoia, tells us the how and what destroys anonymity and makes us vulnerable, even those of us who feel like they have nothing to hide or no one to hide from. As well as steps and tools required to prevent this.
My Opinion: Let’s face it, most of us now and again toss the anonymity for sake of convenience. Why register to that site you want to purchase candy from, if you an log in with facebook? Why would you log out before closing the browser? Why would you use that other, safer, but way slower one? What do you mean turn off java and use less add-on’s?… The book explains what happens, why it happens, to whom it is beneficial, and what can we do to avoid being someone’s product to be sold in a form of data. I will disappoint you and spoil it: pressing a single button on a VPN you just bought is not enough.
June 21, 2018
Problems with governments:
1. They too often want more control, not less crime.
2. They too often forget that people do pay their wages, not them.
1. They too often want more control, not less crime.
2. They too often forget that people do pay their wages, not them.
April 11, 2019
As the author continues to elaborate throughout the opening chapters, this book is a generalized introduction to the Darknet and how to access it. It introduces well-known tools (with brief synopses) of their technologies such as Tor, Freenet, and Tails while not ever truly elaborating on them or their use. It does offers some helpful yet obvious common sense security precautions midway through the book. The tangent of creating an anonymous Facebook profile is unnecessary and honestly pointless. Anyone who wishes to stay anonymous would not openly speak on such common social media channels. Even with that, I might have given a higher rating if the author didn't utilize the last chapter to present his paranoia with the NSA as some odd call to arms lest every bastion of freedom be removed from the American people. There is a big difference between government overreach and an invasion of privacy and what the author projects onto the reader to visualize.
May 23, 2018
Extremely basic guide to privacy. I've a feeling even so it might be too advanced for those who know nothing about it already, and too basic for those like myself who know just a bit. Did have a few programs I'd not yet heard of, but given the book is already 2 years old those might be dated. Needs more depth.
May 21, 2017
This is not a good guide for beginners to staying anonymous online. It's full of irrelevant jargon and assumes knowledge and approximately the same level as it teaches, so without some substantial editing, it will confuse and frustrate most genuine beginners or even non-experts (and for experts, it isn't particularly enlightening or entertaining.) It is basically what you don't want to do in a beginners intro.
It falls prey to the cliched failures of such guides:
1) Assumes NSA as adversary
2) Lots of extraneous technical trivia
3) Tries to teach keywords/settings vs. a (simplified) conceptual framework first
I don't know if there's a perfect general beginner's guide to this topic but Violet Blue's is probably the best I've found so far.
It falls prey to the cliched failures of such guides:
1) Assumes NSA as adversary
2) Lots of extraneous technical trivia
3) Tries to teach keywords/settings vs. a (simplified) conceptual framework first
I don't know if there's a perfect general beginner's guide to this topic but Violet Blue's is probably the best I've found so far.
June 19, 2017
Not tech minded and i got this
Pretty thorough intro to the subject. Enough to start setting up with more anonymity as well as some pertinent cautions. Will read more by this author.
Pretty thorough intro to the subject. Enough to start setting up with more anonymity as well as some pertinent cautions. Will read more by this author.
May 21, 2018
I was going to not review this book at all, in keeping with the spirit of the information contained within and creating trails that lead to identity, but I have a commitment to reviewing every single book I read.
Must-read.
Must-read.
May 17, 2021
I want to give this book a good rating because it is a good read for beginners. Experience Cybersecurity professionals should give this an objective read and think not what you know now, but what you wished you knew as you started your career. I highly recommend this book for beginners.
February 3, 2022
This book got too much in to the details of how to use the Dark-web and I was expecting more on how to fight it, or it’s impact. I got tired of the book and had trouble finishing it. It is short and I should have got though it easily in one day.
September 3, 2018
A great overview of The Darknet.
Also a great overview of the difference between privacy and anonymity.
Also a great overview of the difference between privacy and anonymity.
October 6, 2018
Few years old
There is some useful information on this book, or it was once. Unfortunately it's a few years old so has to be checked before using it as everything moves on so fast.
There is some useful information on this book, or it was once. Unfortunately it's a few years old so has to be checked before using it as everything moves on so fast.
September 3, 2012
Incredibly simplified way of explaining how to conceal one's online footprints.
January 3, 2014
Technical enough to be useful, nontechnical enough to be informative.
A good jumping off point in the realignment of your privacy/anonymity concerns post-Snowden.
A good jumping off point in the realignment of your privacy/anonymity concerns post-Snowden.
July 6, 2016
Almost had a braingasm reading it. There were a few typos, but I didn't care at the time. Found it clear, concise, and practical.
January 30, 2016
Basic tips collected in one convenient book. Somewhat informative.
May 9, 2016
Very informative, terrible as an Audiobook however.
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