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Going analog is really more of an obscurity play than an anonymity one. In which case, you can go online and simply aim to be obscure, to never raise alarms, po

Going analog is really more of an obscurity play than an anonymity one. In which case, you can go online and simply aim to be obscure, to never raise alarms, position oneself as a predatory target, or announce oneself as a threat. Explicit, true thoughts get pushed out to alt accounts, private diaries and the like. You may even allow some degree of linkage to take place, a "if you worked that hard to get here, you know exactly what you were doing" signal. I've done that for years. I think this is the only way to feel truly at ease with the state of things, really. Keeping a whole self in public or in private is asking a bit much.

ethbr0 5y ago
The way I look at it is a matter of attack surface and attack distance. Digital vastly increases both. You have layers and layers of technology in even the simplest modern computers, and core network infrastructure subject to tapping or worse. And much of this that can be done from anywhere on the planet. Analog requires physical proximity, a strength and a serious inconvenience. But it also has the property of being legacy, in that you are now immune to state of the art digital methods, and susceptible to older ones that may be out of institutional memory and practice.