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Many of these points can be summarised in one word: compartmentalisation Your personas are isolated and segregated. They share no information, hobbies, interes
by nikcub 11y ago
Many of these points can be summarised in one word: compartmentalisation
Your personas are isolated and segregated. They share no information, hobbies, interests and at a tech level they don't share connections, machines, browsers, apps.
Your anonymous personas use Tor in an isolating proxy configuration, where traffic is explicitly allowed and proxied rather than routing all by default (NAT) with explicit blocks (like a firewalls block all then allow vs allow all then block)
If you look at Opsec failures (read thegrugq[1]) you'll find that a very large number are the result of a lack of compartmentalisation and were found by establishing link(s) between known and unknown personas
[1] http://grugq.tumblr.com http://grugq.tumblr.com
- mirimir 11y agoYes, indeed, compartmentalisation! There's another interesting feature. Carefully restricted privacy-focused personas for different people tend to be very similar.
- lamby 11y agoA case for Qubes OS?
- Zikes 11y agoCompartmentalization really needs to be a mindset as well. As noted in the article, certain user behaviors can also create linkages between otherwise disparate online personas, e.g. visiting a common subset of sites or visiting sites with low traffic and highly identifiable demographics. It would be difficult for Qubes OS to know that I shouldn't visit zikes.me while browsing in my "anonymous" persona, for example.