Questions tagged [anonymized]

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Are 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 locks out an account after three invalid logon…
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What can be found out by person's IP/host address?

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?
John Hoo
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Re-Write data in SQL file

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…
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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 traffic, is that permissible? I was curious to…
Walter White
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Geolocation Accurcy When Anonymizing IP

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…
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free anonym https proxy list?

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 to a "free" anonym https proxy? are there any? Thank you!
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