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Concepts

The conceptual layer of this site is deliberately thin. Most readers reaching anoni.net already know what Tor and OONI are, or have access to introductory English material at EFF Surveillance Self-Defense and Privacy Guides. We do not duplicate that work.

What we do publish, at the conceptual layer, is the framing that makes the rest of the site readable: why networked freedom matters in the Sinophone Asia-Pacific specifically, and how anoni.net thinks about the relationship between connection, identity, and money. We also fill the occasional gap the canonical curricula leave open, where placing concepts side by side is more useful than another single-concept explainer.

Articles

  • Why networked freedom matters — the East Asia and Southeast Asia regional framing, with anoni.net's three observation axes (connection layer, personal-data and identity layer, financial-flow layer).
  • Anonymity, privacy, pseudonymity, and confidentiality — four words used interchangeably that protect different things; a single side-by-side comparison for picking the right tool, with Asia-Pacific examples.
  • Metadata, and why it matters — the data about your communication (who, when, how often, where) that encryption does not hide, with the regional twist that real-name SIM regimes tie it to a legal identity.
  • Threat modeling — the five questions to ask before picking a tool, and why the adversary and the stakes shift as you move across the region. We point to EFF's canonical guide for the walkthrough.
  • How platforms collect your data, and the microphone question — what social platforms actually collect, why targeted ads feel like eavesdropping, what the research says about apps recording your microphone, and why real-name registration makes an ad profile resolve to a named person here.
  • What surveillance can actually do — a layer-by-layer account of what platforms, telecoms, states, and commercial spyware can and cannot currently do, each claim dated and sourced, with a table of which measure stops which layer.
  • Maintaining multiple online identities — how many layers you need, the tool boundary for each, how observers correlate accounts, and the long-haul maintenance and exit that most introductory material stops short of.

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