Two other things you may value Deely our privacy and anonymity which will relate to why some of your
assets are important to you.
You may wish your emails to remain private.
You may wish your identity to remain known but privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.
So let's explore the difference.
So privacy is nobody's seeing what you do but potentially knowing who you are.
Privacy is about content.
Privacy is about maintaining confidentiality and keeping secrets.
One example of privacy could be if you send an encrypted e-mail to a friend only you and they can read
it.
So it's private from the world and not public.
Another example if you register with a cloud storage provider such as Dropbox you are not anonymous
but if you encrypt the files and only you have the key the data is private.
You have privacy you are private in your own home as no one knows what you do in your home.
You are not anonymous as everyone knows that you live there and an enmity is nobody knowing who you
are.
But potentially seeing what you do and amitie is keeping your actions and activities separate from your
true identity.
And NMT concerns your identity NMT is when out of a set of all possible people.
There is an equal chance it could be anyone who may desire this for viewing content but not for making
it.
It depends on an Amity means non attribution to your actions to be nameless to be faceless one example.
You connect to the Internet through an anonymising service like Tor and post a message about women's
rights under an anonymous username may be in a country where that's a crime.
Your identity remains anonymous and separate from your true identity.
But your message is received and not private.
This is anonymity.
If you connect to a Web site via a virtual private network you are potentially anonymous to that Web
site.
But when you post a message on their public forum that message is not private.
And finally there is a variant of anonymity.
People sometimes use and that is pseudo anonymity pseudo anonymity is when you wish to retain a reputation
against an identity.
A common example is having an alias for social media or for a forum online.
And this picture sums it up.
An adversary may not know who the blue bag user is but they can attribute posts and activities to him
or her.
This is an alias a Kovar a false identity so hopefully that should make it clear the distinction between
privacy anonymity and pseudo anonymity.
So you can understand why you might want in your own situation.
Often the three terms get used interchangeably and even I make the mistake myself so it is important
to understand the difference because different solutions provide privacy over anonymity and pseudo anonymity.
One of the more interesting pseudonyms of modern times is Satoshi Nakamoto the creator of Bitcoin.
If you're not familiar with who he is that's a little extra reading you can do for fun.
In most countries you have the right to privacy and anonymity if you so choose.
Protected under law in most countries.
Stealing your personal and private information is a crime.
For example the content of an email is personal information.
Saying that though many governments seem to be free to steal personal information with impunity.
Unfortunately as we all are aware.
Which is why people feel that our privacy is eroding making and seek security to enable privacy and
anonymity and probably a reason many of you are doing this course so adding to your list of assets or
what is important to you might also be your privacy and anonymity and your need may be greater or less
than others that are on the course.
As we go through the course consider your needs for protecting your assets.
That includes privacy and anonymity as these will determine the security that you require.