Anonymity isn't maintainable for typical Web activity. In those scenarios, it's good OPSEC to keep Internet-based comms to a minimum, and to a small handful of services. In the OPSEC context, Internet anonymity is only realistically maintainable for limited purposes, such as maintaining a blog, organising a protest, communicating information about something to a journalist, and using one or two forums to communicate with a small group. When someone uses the Dark Net for something that attracts the interest of law enforcement, it typically doesn't take much to identify that person, probably not even a court order, largely because of this.Īnonymity is going to require maintaining a separation between your our real-world identity and ouur online activities, in both an OPSEC and a technical context.

So, what can be done, if we want anonymity when using the Internet? Obviously, it's not enough to simply use Tor or a VPN, as that only masks a person's IP address, and that's not much protection for someone using a device with a myriad of things pinging various corporations, and consequently enabling those corporations to log the VPN/Tor address alongside his/her identity. The security of modern devices is generally quite good, but too opaque to know the extent to which they're backdoored. A state of affairs brought about by a confluence of what we collectively surrendered for convenience.īasically our personal devices are already compromised more than they should be, and most certainly for anyone whos threat model includes an adversary with access to considerable resources. Though my views aren't as extreme as Richard Stallman's, he does have a point: A decade ago we'd be up in arms about relatively trivial privacy-invading crap in operating systems, but it's since become the norm, with most smartphones and laptops having things pre-installed that send personal data in the background to Google, Microsoft and whichever assortment of corporations.

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