There are some ways to achieve anonymity in the Internet, every method guarantee some level of anonymity from someone.
For anonymity to work, there is always something that has to be trusted.
- Incognito mode in the browsers: in this case you don’t get anonymity from your Internet Service Provider or the Government. You’re getting anonymity from other people that want to use the same computer. The trusted entity that guarantees anonymity is the browser.
- VPN: in this case you don’t connect directly to the final server, but you connect first to a proxy, and than this connects to the server. You get anonymity from ISP but not on the Government, since they still can get a log of connections from the VPN provider. The trusting entity is the VPN provider.
- TOR provides anonymity from both the ISP and the Government.
tags: distributed-systems - internet-privacy