The Art of Anonymity

[vezzy]

Wonderful job. You could have also included some info on anonymity networks such as Freenet and I2P, but overall excellent.

[parad0x]

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[TGavin]

Thanks for the great read! It was very insightful especially for a beginner like me who knows squat about anonymity and hacking. I'm hoping to stick around here and learn as much as possible. Just a question, you say you don't want to speak about Tor in your post, is it bad or..? I'm using Tor with most of the add-ons you spoke of in the post.

[lucid]

Thanks for the great read! It was very insightful especially for a beginner like me who knows squat about anonymity and hacking. I'm hoping to stick around here and learn as much as possible. Just a question, you say you don't want to speak about Tor in your post, is it bad or..? I'm using Tor with most of the add-ons you spoke of in the post.

I don't like Tor because it's slow for one thing. Not to mention it's very easy to expose who a person is and what they are doing, it's easy to slip and leak some information about yourself. Plus the .onion net isn't as interesting as people make it out to be. Endnodes can sniff and hijack your session. It's no where near a perfect anonymity service. Don't ever use it for any serious hacks or anything like that.

It's alot safer if you use it inside of a VM though. Maybe set up a host/workstation VM and use SSH.

[lucid]

Updated

[TGavin]

I don't like Tor because it's slow for one thing. Not to mention it's very easy to expose who a person is and what they are doing, it's easy to slip and leak some information about yourself. Plus the .onion net isn't as interesting as people make it out to be. Endnodes can sniff and hijack your session. It's no where near a perfect anonymity service. Don't ever use it for any serious hacks or anything like that.

It's alot safer if you use it inside of a VM though. Maybe set up a host/workstation VM and use SSH.

Allright, I understand! Thanks for your input. In your opinion, though, what's the best way to be at least partially anonymous for free, that doesn't involve paying for Proxies or VPNs? Again pardon if my questions are rather dumb as I am quite new to all of this.

[lucid]

Allright, I understand! Thanks for your input. In your opinion, though, what's the best way to be at least partially anonymous for free, that doesn't involve paying for Proxies or VPNs? Again pardon if my questions are rather dumb as I am quite new to all of this.

Well....that's kind of what I wrote the tutorial for.  Didn't you read it?

[Deque]

A great tutorial. Why didn't I see it before?
I guess, because I don't read topics like that as you said yourself, they are almost all boring and exchangeable. I only saw it, because it was nominated for the EZine +1

[lucid]

A great tutorial. Why didn't I see it before?
I guess, because I don't read topics like that as you said yourself, they are almost all boring and exchangeable. I only saw it, because it was nominated for the EZine +1

Oh it was? How touching.

[TaZe7777]

The silk road use "tor". (The silk road is the largest online drug market place)

[proxx]

I don't like Tor because it's slow for one thing. Not to mention it's very easy to expose who a person is and what they are doing, it's easy to slip and leak some information about yourself. Plus the .onion net isn't as interesting as people make it out to be. Endnodes can sniff and hijack your session. It's no where near a perfect anonymity service. Don't ever use it for any serious hacks or anything like that.

It's alot safer if you use it inside of a VM though. Maybe set up a host/workstation VM and use SSH.

Why would you consider that 'a lot safer' , are you aiming at DNS leaks ?
Its weird that TOR still uses socks 4 by default, 4a fixes the problem to some extend.
But in that case its better to just use iptables to drop any leaking traffic.


And just a side note.
If you change your user agent from windows to linux or the other way around you must realize that the TTL must also be changed to match accordingly.

[lucid]

, are you aiming at DNS leaks ?

Pretty much

[lucid]

!UPDATED!

Update is located in the logs section. At least one more update to come.

[lucid]

!UPDATED!

Update is located in the User Agent section. Credits go to proxx.

[proxx]

Very well put lucid