Anonymity & Privacy:

Anonymity and Privacy does plays a major role in cyber world now a days. The main reason behind this is internet censorship either by government or by big corporates. And also to protect yourself from not being a victim of cyber threads.

Techniques :

The techniques which are used to achieve our goals(anonymity & privacy) includes By Changing your DNS Using PROXY VPN - Virtual Private Network TOR - The Onion Router



DNS (Domain Name Space):

DNS is a service which performs address resolution. That is it converts your input address (URL -Uniform resource locator ) in to respective ip address and vice versa. In the process of Internet censorship government may recommend Internet Service Provider(ISP) with a set of web address which should not be accessed by the people of that country so the ISP back list such URL in there DNS server.





To overcome this problem it is recommended to use Public DNS such as

OpenDNS(OpenDNS) Google DNS BlockAID DNS (BlockAID DNS)

Configure Your DNS - This Explain how to change your DNS in different operating system including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.





This is a small solution to counter censorship. But it does not give assurance.

PROXY :

Proxy Server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients (You) seeking resources from other servers (eg Gmail). A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server and the proxy server evaluates the request as a way to simplify and control its complexity.That is all our(client) Communication are sent via proxy to server.



Proxy As a Anonymity tool







VPN :

VPN - Virtual Private Network is Good tool to Combat Internet censorship each VPN has its unique features and should explore a lot to learn about VPN functions.



The recommended choice of my choice VPN is - Virtual Private Network is Good tool to Combat Internet censorship each VPN has its unique features and should explore a lot to learn about VPN functions.The recommended choice of my choice VPN is VPN GATE and explore that VPN usage in that site. It has info related to both SSL VPN and OPEN VPN .

TOR :

Tor (previously an acronym for The Onion Router) is free software for enabling online anonymity and resisting censorship. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than five thousand relays[6] to conceal a user's location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis.







