Anonymization

Anonymization is protecting yourself by keeping what you are doing private and untraceable to your own name.

Pseudonymity is the practice of creating identities under nick names so as to conduct activities without being attacked for them.

Pseudonymity Tips

• Never mix your pseudonym up with your real identity.
• Never forget to log out and log in as your pseudonym before conducting activities.
• Even viewing a page can be logged to your IP, and IPs may get matched up, so use a different proxy for each identity for maximum safety.
• Logs could still be pieced together if the proxies were compromised
• You can get help on using a web proxy.

Tor

http://tor.eff.org/download.html.en

SSH Proxy

The Problem

Everything you do over the web is logged by routers. Your office IT manager or roommate can spy on your web use by checking logs. A hacker can sniff your traffic to actually intercept everything and steal passwords and the like.

The Solution

Setup SSH Proxy.

Setup Tutorials

• SSH Proxy
• tutorial on crimethinc.
• anonymous domains

Government Surveillance Is Legal

Anonymization is necessary because the government can conduct warrantless internet monitoring of what you surf and who you email: 

"Privacy rules don't apply to Internet messages, court says

Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect’s computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

In a drug case from San Diego County, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco likened computer surveillance to the “pen register” devices that officers use to pinpoint the phone numbers a suspect dials, without listening to the phone calls themselves.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of pen registers in 1979, saying callers have no right to conceal from the government the numbers they communicate electronically to the phone companies that carry their calls."

—SF Chronicle, http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/14805/Judges_OK_warrantless_monitoring_of_Web_use