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Create rogue TOR nodes Use TOR for menial stuff to create background noise Regularly trade laptops and phones with like-minded individuals Assume you've been
by tomcooks 6y ago
Create rogue TOR nodes
Use TOR for menial stuff to create background noise
Regularly trade laptops and phones with like-minded individuals
Assume you've been breached and that the government has full attention to you
Be as paranoid as possible, any step towards lack of freedom for the sake of convenience is unretracheable
- vmception 6y agoyeah running 1 or 2 of your own Tor nodes seems to be pretty ideal. One of which being an exit node. Connecting to that is the move. providing an obfs4 bridge seems good too but I really wish there was a docker container for all this, the documentation is all over the place, most of it is just on forums that can only be accessed on Tor and those forums have unreliable uptime, it is really discouraging but it seems like there are some very competent people that are so comfortable doing this that one could just assume they all have this greater level of OPSEC and infrastructure
- jstanley 6y agoI possibly misunderstand you, but why would connecting to your own Tor exit node help your anonymity?
- vmception 6y agoyour traffic is mixed in with others using your exit node, and you control the data and logging of that exit node
- ramraj07 6y agoBut if they can trace back all the activity pertaining to a case they can show strongly though not conclusively that you were probably the source? Also as long as they can prove that you constructed the setup you also start looking guilty as hell..
- vmception 6y agovaries by jurisdiction, so far us and its states havent made exit node owners responsible for traffic or let that go beyond the doubt
- tomcooks 6y agoWith a solution like https://github.com/jaromil/TorTV https://github.com/jaromil/TorTV one could have much more than a couple of exit nodes.
- geuis 6y ago> Regularly trade laptops and phones with like-minded individuals That puts you into a group of people then. Groups are easier to infiltrate. In opsec, people are vulnerabilities.
- rodolphoarruda 6y agoI agree with you. But I like the idea of trading devices with people who have already tied their ID with IMEI, wi-fi networks, ISP IPs etc. Identity theft? Not really... Just borrowing it for a while.
- geuis 6y agoProblem is, you essentially can’t trust people. Not even in a personal “do I know this person” way. But fundamentally people are squishy. If you squish them too much, they’ll do things they never wanted to do. That unfortunately is why groups greater than 1 are a weak spot. In your scenario, you’ll never know if the last person increments an ID somewhere or did some other activity that adds compromises the chain.
- gruez 6y agoYour ISMI (aka your sim card) is going to be sent alongside your IMEI, which makes that type of identity "borrowing" pointless because the carrier can see right through it. wifi mac addresses can be easily spoofed without swapping hardware. Overall I don't see much value in swapping hardware.
- rodolphoarruda 6y agoIn this case I would use the SIM card used by the former owner, if it's a pre-paid plan, for example. This is quite common trade in the place I live.
- zie 6y agoonly if they are still paying the bill will this be useful. If you start paying the bill, well then.. they know exactly who you are.
- throw_nbvc1234 6y agoAre you truly free if you're forced to be paranoid about everything? Secure maybe but that doesn't sound "free".
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- tomcooks 6y agoI'm free to give up technology, the price to pay if I want to use tech is to be careful and paranoid. Not for myself but for other people in this world who aren't as lucky as myself in terms of freedom.
- lupire 6y agoYou're still restricted from going about the life the way you want. Having to make that tradeoff is an imposition on liberty.