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Or you could have just bought the cards with Bitcoin. Same for phone verification. By buying the card in person you leak a ton of location information.
by MichaelGG 9y ago
Or you could have just bought the cards with Bitcoin. Same for phone verification. By buying the card in person you leak a ton of location information.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoAgreed, though it was three years ago when BTC was less useful. Does phone verification as a service really work now? Also I wonder how many gift cards you can purchase reliably and quickly. FWIW, it was the same idea as this article, just a 20 mile radius instead of 600. General location was going to be leaked anyway since it's impossible to use the internet without doing so. Even if you rely on Tails with perfect opsec, traffic correlation can narrow down which region you're in. It's possible to figure out your timezone based on the times of your online interactions. If this SecureDrop offshoot was to succeed, it was going to require lots of communication with the press and with users. Much of the value of the service is knowing you're not alone, and that there are people who are incorruptible and can do something with the information. (My plan was to carefully vet the info for legitimacy, carefully anonymize it, then try to contact some special agent via email once I had anything actionable.)