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If you really need to be stealthy, connect to a public wifi network and do your browsing from there. If you're really paranoid, buy a dedicated laptop (with ca
by jmnicolas 9y ago
If you really need to be stealthy, connect to a public wifi network and do your browsing from there.
If you're really paranoid, buy a dedicated laptop (with cash, preferably in another town and leave your cellphone at home).
- falcolas 9y agoBonus points for using some form of "cantenna" to extend your laptop's wifi range so you don't have to be physically close to the actual wifi access point. Also, use a random algorithm for determining where to connect to wifi from - people are bad at creating random patterns and can actually identify their location by the "hole" in a ring of used locations (see: serial killers). It's worth remembering; 87% of people can be uniquely identified with a zip code, gender, and their birthdate. Operational security - remaining consistently anonymous - is hard.
- brad0 9y agoDo you have a paper or article showing the unique identification stats?
- jmnicolas 9y agoBruce Schneieir talks about it in it's book "Data And Goliath".
- falcolas 9y agoHere's when it hit HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967 There are a number of good hits on google on the search "uniquely identify person zip code birthdate"