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As much as dark mode is becoming a thing, I can't read light on dark text without it messing with my eyes. It has to be the worst way to render text.
I don't like seeing white lines as an after image on my retinas.
I looked up his e-mail address in his profile (I'm the admin). I punched it into google, which led to what looked like a public chat log. The e-mail address he used to register his account there was listed right next to his old username, which we recognized as the stalker's.
We banned his account and the stalked member had to contact their solicitor, again.
anyway tl;dr never post your e-mail address or a variant thereof publicly, especially if you're trying to be anonymous.
I'm sort of the opposite. I make sure that I can be found and attributed. I deleted my last anonymous account, a couple of years ago. In the Days of Yore, I was pretty much "Dick From the Internet." A real neckbeard troll. There's a lot of reasons that I do it. The biggest, is that I want to be in control of my narrative. I learned from a couple of folks that are really good at curating their SEO results. Also, these…
You’ve said it better than I could have. Many people on HN probably know your handle/identity, if only by virtue of you referring to it in your comments somewhat systematically. You manage your identity with an SEO mindset indeed. I do not mean to offend, but it does read just as fake as any SEO search results.
This is the place where I lost OP. How can anybody be blackmailed with publicly available info?
On the topic: I believe that the serious level of anonymity makes life extremely inconvenient and uncomfortable. Always using VPNs, keeping small hosts in different places as exit points, checking and rechecking everything when connecting to WiFi or roaming. Keeping separate hardware, for that matter.
I don't see how all this parafernalia justified. Identity stealing? Just use 2FA for your key service accounts. Don't reuse passwords, use a password manager - those are today's basics every schoolchild knows. Use debit card instead of credit and never keep it's balance above $100. Turn on 3D-security on all your cards. Don't get involved into drug dealing. Things like this.
You give hints about your age, where you have lived, maybe about hobbies, education, work history, time when you are online. Each individual bit is not much, but when you combine few of these, they actually identify you exactly.
That article is full of terrible advice. Example: > Don't use Gmail -- use ProtonMail "ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities" https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
Which is about as good as it gets. Unless you know of a reputable email provider that ignores court orders? (bit of an oxymoron)
There's a middle ground somewhere here, in between "Don't be a criminal" and "Don't be stupid." I don't think the lesson we should take from AlphaBay is "Take better privacy safeguards" but "Don't set up an illegal dark web operation."
As careful as some of the things he suggests are...if you're truly wanted by a state-level actor or sufficiently motivated attacker, you won't be able to hide by simply using VPN and Tor. Especially if you're running something with many transactions like AlphaBay. You would need to obfuscate quite a bit more: - if you're using VPN traffic but most people "around" you aren't, you're a suspicious node; your ISP could e…
Yes, working from home is very suspicious. :P
(That said, the VPN companies that work in the B2C segment for those who can't set up their own VPN server is small and they're all well-known to the government.)
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What you said and much more. For example, you buy a burner phone, but the place you bought it from, even if a second hand shop, had a security camera. Maybe they also record IMEI's before selling phones. Or you carry your burner phone together with your real phone. Or alternatively, you leave one at home when using the other. Both of these things can be linked by a sufficiently determined actor (FBI/NSA level). Or th…
You should just assume a "real phone" is rooted by the FBI and functions to track your movements 24/7, accurate to the meter, is capable of remotely enabling mic/camera and all sensors, including WiFi, accelerometer, GPS, etc. Because even if it isn't, the software on it already (system software, apps, everything) already does a massive amount of snooping, distilling, and uploading. The feds "enabling" targeted surve…
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Re. big pharma, imagine how weary the roughly 400k families of people who dies feel. "Three major drug distributors and the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson have agreed to a $26 billion settlement with states to resolve thousands of lawsuits over the country's opioid crisis, officials announced Wednesday." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4-companies-near-26-bil... None of these executives were anonymous or…
In that vein you have to also prosecute alcohol distilleries, tobacco companies, fast food companies, casinos, lotto companies, ice cream makers, and any other company that makes something that people struggle to control their own consumption. And we do, that's why we have government. At least you have a recourse when these companies operate within the law.