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Selected Papers in Anonymity

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Re: Selected Papers in Anonymity

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Post by dandelion_lover »

kriro wrote: post #10

This seems like an excellent list on first glance. Is there a similar "practical advice" type of list. Sadly, I tried to imagine I'd need to be as anonymous as possible and couldn't even figure out how to get an untraceable email address (legally). My basic thought was to use some public WLAN (hoping for no MiTM), ideally not close to where I actually live and then use Tor to create a Hushmail account (as I recall th…

Free Software Foundation recommends [0,1] http://posteo.de email provider. They consider privacy as one of their advantages. You can even send them money in an envelope (1 euro/month) without a return address and they will accept the payment.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-javascript-guideline...

[1] https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems

(dislaimer: I'm not affiliated with Posteo.de)

edit: added the second link; grammar

Re: Selected Papers in Anonymity

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Post by kriro »

dandelion_lover wrote: post #11
kriro wrote: post #10

This seems like an excellent list on first glance. Is there a similar "practical advice" type of list. Sadly, I tried to imagine I'd need to be as anonymous as possible and couldn't even figure out how to get an untraceable email address (legally). My basic thought was to use some public WLAN (hoping for no MiTM), ideally not close to where I actually live and then use Tor to create a Hushmail account (as I recall th…

Free Software Foundation recommends [0,1] http://posteo.de email provider. They consider privacy as one of their advantages. You can even send them money in an envelope (1 euro/month) without a return address and they will accept the payment. [0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-javascript-guideline... [1] https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems (dislaimer: I'm not affiliated with Posteo.de) edit: added…

Thanks, this seems to be pretty much what I was looking for. The two conceptual hurdles I ran into were. 1) If it requires payment there's a trail 2) Most other solutions usually require some sort of reference mail/postal address or phone number.

This seems to solve both :)

Re: Selected Papers in Anonymity

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Post by dhimes »

ShaneWilton wrote: post #9
zkhalique wrote: post #8

Anonymity itself is hard to maintain. There are generally two ways to do so: 1) Accounts can be obtained at a network which is KNOWN not to discover who the owners are. These accounts can then be used to open other accounts at other organizations and networks in a sort of graph, and eventually double back on themselves once or twice. 2) For networks which do not allow anonymous accounts, nor allow the use of other "a…

"Of course, with all this, you would still have to make sure repeated communication does not bear any fingerprints that could be used to identify you." This is one area where things get really interesting. Here's one of my favourite DEFCON talks, wherein Tom Ritter de-anonymizes users of an anonymous message board, based on these sorts of fingerprinting techniques. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tj6c2Ikq_E

That talk is riveting. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Selected Papers in Anonymity

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Post by dandelion_lover »

kriro wrote: post #10

This seems like an excellent list on first glance. Is there a similar "practical advice" type of list. Sadly, I tried to imagine I'd need to be as anonymous as possible and couldn't even figure out how to get an untraceable email address (legally). My basic thought was to use some public WLAN (hoping for no MiTM), ideally not close to where I actually live and then use Tor to create a Hushmail account (as I recall th…

>Is there a similar "practical advice" type of list.

I think https://prism-break.org/en/ is what you are looking for.

Re: Selected Papers in Anonymity

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Post by [deleted] »

e12e wrote: post #6

While not directly related to Anonymity, I also strongly recommend Warren and Brandeis: "The Right to Privacy" as reading on some arguments against the "... if you have nothing to hide"-arguments: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...

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Re: Selected Papers in Anonymity

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Post by dublinben »

unabridged wrote: post #2

Its kind of disheartening when the websites for Free Haven and Mixminion don't even have HTTPS as an option.

Mixminion is abandoned, so I wouldn't use it for anything other than research purposes. You should be verifying signatures of important software like this anyway, not relying on HTTPS to give you a trustworthy download.
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