The Art of Anonymity

[Suspect]

Great tutorial, easy to follow even for a beginner like myself. Definitley going to be spending some time with it, thanks.

[8478071360]

All good stuff. Sometimes a great way to learn something is to try to do the opposite. Can you provide a tutorial on how NOT to be anonymous, so that every phreak knows you? Of course, I would want to post anonymously to become non-anonymous.  Sorry if that sounds seriously F'd up.

[RismaLove]

Anonymity is Be No Body and Make Who are you. nice tut lucid
, +1.

[Display]

This is great! there are more tricks to it than it seems but this guide covered it up a heck of a lot!!! Thanks!

[sh4d0w_w4tch]

You should create a second user on your computer when setting up an identity.  Obviously you don't want to be using the same SSH and PGP keys and you don't want to have all of your personal files alongside projects that are part of another identity.  This isn't for when you want to be anonymous from the government, you'll want more separation of identities for that.

Never interact with the online identities of your friends.  Even if it doesn't trace back to you, it will lead back to your friends and you could be eventually picked out.  Avoid any interaction with people your friends have interacted with online because it creates a link and your habits could be used to identify you.

[guccifer]

I haven't gone through all the replies, so f someone didn't specified that I will. You may want to add: "encryption over voice phone" as the first step...

[proxx]

Its nice and all that people like to say thanks , but we get it by now.
Lucid is not been around for ages.

[jamescc]

Being anonymous only means you have something to hide.  We have amazing spam filtering and OK with publicly releasing my email address.  It doesn't really matter.  I am not breaking the law and no spam bot can get through me spam filter.  It's foolproof.   

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[Syntax990]

Being anonymous only means you have something to hide.

That there... That is why the human race is fucked.

[x0nic]

That there... That is why the human race is fucked.

That there.... That is why the human race has a slight chance of at least not being fucked as a whole.
Think positive! xP

Being anonymous only means you have something to hide.

If you really got nothing to hide (from whoever), you seriously are some boring fuck of a human being, lol.
Besides, you neither seem to understand the most simple and general ethical objections against broad surveillance, nor any other basic human right on privacy of the individual. So why don't you just fuck off and stop advertising your bullshit here?

[Muadib]

Years later, still picking up views........
It got me started and i'm off to the races.....

[kokoTorEncrypt]

What about RDP (remote desktop protocol)? I think this is a good way to hide make you a shadow. - VPS with Windows / Linux (not PC). This is a good tutorial.

[sh4d0w_w4tch]

What about RDP (remote desktop protocol)? I think this is a good way to hide make you a shadow. - VPS with Windows / Linux (not PC). This is a good tutorial.

I think you're better off using a VM and some sort of anonymity tunneling like TOR or a VPN.  RDP is too slow and requires other measures on top of it.

Almost double posted.

I'll just leave this here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmfoovHj2Y

You can be anonymous to a limited extent from most people but total anonymity is impossible.

[Biokinetix]

Awesome thread and very, very informative unlike most other site's info on this topic. most people forget about all the various angles one need to cover with regards to anonimity and privacy. Big up to u for taking the time to write this.

Rep: +1

[rogue.hackz]

Nice tutorial, I liked that part where you discussed about dhcp and it does uniquely identify you on the network.

You've partially solved the problem by setting a static fake hostname & os but still when you connect to different networks under that same fake identity they can correlate or trace you back to that fake identity as it is static and not truly random.

It would be nice to have a script or dynamic config file to automatically randomise dhcp requests everytime you connect to a network and spoofing under the banner of different os not just linux. I'll do a bit of research and see if I can some up with something later.