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Since other people are asking about related tools... Do you know about a tool for managing personas (vulgo sockpuppets)? E.g. a little database where you store

Since other people are asking about related tools... Do you know about a tool for managing personas (vulgo sockpuppets)? E.g. a little database where you store facts about fake identities: Name, age, location, hobbies, favorite topics, and so on. Maybe if you click on an identity, it will connect you with a preconfigured proxy or VPN and allow you to post as them on websites. I don't really have a use case for myself. I'm just curious because I read a couple of years ago that the US Army was developing something like that for propaganda, and wonder if the OSINT or sousveilance people have come up with a version. A less nefarious use of such technology would be to keep your (real) online personalities separate.

2devnull 4y ago
A password manager?
chli 4y ago
Firefox Multi-Account Containers with Mozilla VPN would be a start.
jstarfish 4y ago
> Maybe if you click on an identity, it will connect you with a preconfigured proxy or VPN and allow you to post as them on websites. You can still be fingerprinted across "personas" when your useragent/screen resolution/IP address/proxy provider/etc. are all identical, since you're presumably doing all of this from the same device. This does not mean spin up a bunch of EC2 instances. Buy a bunch of different burner phones/old laptops from Goodwill or whatever-- use discrete hardware. Get SIM cards from different providers. Pay with Bitcoin or cash where possible. Etc. These are the sorts of things scammer sweatshops do to avoid accountability. They'll have literal walls full of phones wired up, each preconfigured for a particular identity. Even teenaged fraudsters like Eleanor Williams think to do this sort of stuff to maintain opsec.