The general idea behind internet/email anonymity is to avoid unintentionally giving out any information that would identify you to vendors, law enforcement and any others who have the desire to monitor your internet usage. This is a layered effort in that there are many ways you can be identified over the internet via a web browser. If you share your:

1. local gateway IP address*
2. identity via credit card, name/address, paypal, ss#, or any other piece of personal info
3. identity via an email address that can be linked to you you will have lost anonymity for that communication.

In addition, there are numerous tracking cookies that websites and advertising companies use to track your internet usage. This link gives some best practices that are very useful -- Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Its part one of a series by EFF on tracking. Part two is more meaty as it describes the little-known use of adobe/macromedia flash plugin** to store cookie-like data when cookies are disabled in order to track users. It also discusses internet usage tracking and use of social networking sites to link that usage data to an individual person (meaning you... and yes, facebook, linkedin, etc. are whores) -- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/0...nd-remove-wide.

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*note this means the IP address internet websites see -- not the IP address of the local machine you are working on, but the IP address of the hardware you use to connect to your ISP. For example, I use a cable modem, so my cable company sees my network only to the level of the IP they assign to my gateway, which is my cable modem IP address, a/k/a gateway address. My local machine has an address like 10.1.1.6, which is a private IP address assigned by my wireless router with the subnet that is my home network (10, 172 and 192 prefixes are reserved for private subnetworks like your home network). This address is perfectly useless to identify me online as it only has meaning relative to my little subnet context. It is undoubtedly possible to obtain someone's gateway IP that is using JonDo or Tor via hacking using javascript or possibly some form of overflow attack. However, the latter is rare, and if you run "noscript" or any other plugin that turns off javascript until you enable it for each internet site/domain it should help protect against such attacks. Additionally, never use internet explorer -- run firefox on a pc, linux or mac using the jondofox profile, (available at JonDo download site: https://www.jondos.de/en/) for your anonymous surfing) which installs the
'noscript' firefox plugin, should go a long way to protect you.

**the short version is that you can turn off/be asked permission prior to any 3rd-party data-storing by using the flash settings panel at: Adobe - Flash Player : Flash Player Help settings_manager04.html, though its advisable to read the full piece anyway, and also read this link from part two: https://www.isecpartners.com/files/i...er_Cookies.pdf. A later post will discuss how to best administer flash policies on your computer to avoid tracking.
larryshomework Reviewed by larryshomework on . Anonymity on the net -- JAP/Jondo, Tor and usage tracking Hey there everybody, I'm a noob here, and a friend of cannabis forum member Apollonia. She encouraged me to post some information I put together that may be useful to people who are interested in increasing their anonymity online. For my part my goal is to explain some dark corners and to create a discussion space on the subjects of JonDo, Tor and internet tracking. I break the initial discussion into five posts as follows: *Introduction *Online Anonymity - what it is & how to Rating: 5