I’m setting up a new server for a website. I want to ensure that my users’ privacy is well protected (at least from my side). Initially I wanted to not track IP addresses at all. However, I need some rough estimation of the user’s location so that I know where in the world to place … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 11 years ago. Improve this question i found only this one: https://proxify.com/ “POST access and interactive content are available only to paid Proxify subscribers” does anyone has a link … Read more
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 traffic, is that permissible? I was curious to know if there are better ways to track a page view from a particular … Read more
So my solution to anonymize data on our backup server where we store backups of MySQL databases in .sql files is the following: Created a script that copies the .sql file from the backup server to my local workstation, automatically imports it into my database server, straight anonymizes the sensitive data, exports the database into … Read more
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? Answer All sorts of things — what OS your machine (or router — whatever’s directly connected to that IP address) is running, what services … Read more
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 locks out an account after three invalid logon attempts. So except maybe for making a DOS attack harder I can’t see how … Read more
