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Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

#11

1. Buy BTC with cash 2. Buy a domain with BTC via Tor 3. Buy hosting with BTC via Tor 4. Do not accidentally leak your identity in one of million possible ways #1-3 are pretty easy, but #4 is next to impossible. If nobody cares about you there might be some small room for error. But generally it takes one smallest mistake and you are ultimately busted.

> 1. Buy BTC with cash

This actually is harder than it sounds.

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

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post #5

The untraceableblog.com below is a great resource. However, in the end, there is always text analysis though that can give your identity away, which the untraceable blog does not address. That's why you possibly need a ghost writer that you provide with a script or a robot audio recording if you want to go 100% sure. You need to be able to trust your ghostwriter a 100% though then. :)

It is addressed under the section "Word and character frequency analysis". He runs his posts through google translate to another language, and then back to english.

That's probably not too wise as Google submitted data for... everything.

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

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post #5

The untraceableblog.com below is a great resource. However, in the end, there is always text analysis though that can give your identity away, which the untraceable blog does not address. That's why you possibly need a ghost writer that you provide with a script or a robot audio recording if you want to go 100% sure. You need to be able to trust your ghostwriter a 100% though then. :)

It is addressed under the section "Word and character frequency analysis". He runs his posts through google translate to another language, and then back to english.

Better use Anonymouth: https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

The translation method is not really effective:

> We also show that automated attempts at circumventing stylometry using machine translation may not be as effective, often altering the meaning of text while providing only small drops in accuracy.

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~sa499/papers/adversarial_stylomet...

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

#14

Here are a couple of interesting links: http://untraceableblog.com/ http://voidnull.sdf.org/ To answer your questions - you can buy domain for bitcoins and use some free hosting like Wordpress or Github Pages.

Domain names can be withdrawn if you supply invalid WHOIS information.

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

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post #3

Don't. More specifically, if you truly care for anonymity, you won't be using a plain DNS+Web site. Instead, you should go for Freenet [1] or a Tor-hosted website [2]. [1] https://freenetproject.org/ [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Surely you could still keep anonymity (as long as you can work around the billing issues) by only accessing the servers yourself through Tor. The bigger advantage of Tor is if you also want to prevent law enforcement from finding the server / taking it offline / etc.

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

#16
Much like security, you pick your countermeasures in advance in the hopes of raising the cost of an attacker to penetrating your security. You're not anonymous. You're anonymous to an adversary with a given amount of technical/legal/intelligence/etc resources to bring to bear on deanonimizing you.

People will probably give you links which describe adequate methods for securing you against adversaries without $1,000 or equivalent amounts of brainsweat. If that's your adversary, there. May you execute properly.

If your theorized adversary is a nation state, pick another adversary. You're guaranteed to lose that fight in the long run. If you bid the price of your identity up to $5 million, they will counter with "We routinely pay that to kill mosquitoes" and mean that entirely literally.

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

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post #4

If you need to ask these questions you are not qualified to run such a site, or at least not to ask anyone else to trust that you are not going to screw up when setting it up or at some point in the future and break anonymity. The more you move away from "free speech" to avoiding regulation and toward criminal activity the greater the chance that someone out there will actually try to see how good you really are, and…

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Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

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post #11

1. Buy BTC with cash 2. Buy a domain with BTC via Tor 3. Buy hosting with BTC via Tor 4. Do not accidentally leak your identity in one of million possible ways #1-3 are pretty easy, but #4 is next to impossible. If nobody cares about you there might be some small room for error. But generally it takes one smallest mistake and you are ultimately busted.

> 1. Buy BTC with cash This actually is harder than it sounds.

localbitcoins?

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

#19

1. Buy BTC with cash 2. Buy a domain with BTC via Tor 3. Buy hosting with BTC via Tor 4. Do not accidentally leak your identity in one of million possible ways #1-3 are pretty easy, but #4 is next to impossible. If nobody cares about you there might be some small room for error. But generally it takes one smallest mistake and you are ultimately busted.

I would add http://www.freespeechme.org/ to the mix, very interesting use of namecoin to register a .bit domain

Re: Ask HN: How to create an anonymous site?

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post #11

1. Buy BTC with cash 2. Buy a domain with BTC via Tor 3. Buy hosting with BTC via Tor 4. Do not accidentally leak your identity in one of million possible ways #1-3 are pretty easy, but #4 is next to impossible. If nobody cares about you there might be some small room for error. But generally it takes one smallest mistake and you are ultimately busted.

> 1. Buy BTC with cash This actually is harder than it sounds.

For what its worth, I managed this fairly easily via Local Bitcoins.
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