How often are proxies used
How often are proxies to obfuscate internet traffic used? Do most companies connect directly to the Internet (after using a proxy to cache and filter content), or is there some obfuscation of their...
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I just discovered that my supposedly anonymous e-mail isn’t so anonymous after all. My IP and host name is sent with the headers. This information exposed, what can be found out? All sorts of things —...
View ArticleAre Anonymized Usernames necessary?
Our security manager insists that we should use anonymized usernames. E.g. for a user named John Doe his username would be ‘g74h19‘ instead of something like ‘jdoe‘. We already have a policy that...
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