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[DETAILED] Complete Anonymity/OPSEC Guide

Incredibly detailed, bravo it is :)
Great tutorial, everything is nice except exploit.im isn't a good XMPP service as it's been rooted many times.
Subscribed to the thread. Best info I have read on here for being invisable on the web!

Awesome job mate!

SILVERHAWK
I would also like to recommend the following tools for OSX users:

Little Snitch 3
Personal firewall for outgoing connections. Must have.
obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index-en.html

Micro Snitch
New tool which protects from cam/mic spying.
obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index-en.html

OSX Rkhunter
Rkhunter version for OSX with UI and updater.
antirootkit.com/software/OS-X-Rootkit-Hunter.htm

Stay safe!
Wow, This helped me a lot!
Incredibly detailed and well written, You really do know how to teach people your stuff.
It's very easy to understand and easy to apply! And once again! Thanks! This is awesome!
Bookmarked very nice and hq thread
I'm going over a few things,

For the first... All of your Disk image creators are bad except the Win32DiskImager.
Rufus, LinuxLiveUSB and Unetbootin are terrible because they overwrite your syslinux.cfg with their own. That can break the boot process.

There is an Icelandic VPN that is safe to use, the laws in Iceland do not require VPN services to keep logs.
https://lokun.is/
This one does not keep logs as well as it isn't expensive..

GoogleDNS at least is probably one that you don't want to use. As Google keeps logs
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

With Full disk encryption you should link this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption
A lot of important information on there. As well as mention that you NEED to encrypt your swap. If say, you keep an application open in SWAP and shut down your computer by unplugging the cable, then data in swap is kept and can be seen. Thus; All type of information leaked, which is a breach into your privacy.

Overwriting data once with bunch of zeros is more than enough to make it unrecoverable. This has been proven as well as if you want to, I can find the research paper done on that subject. 3 times isn't really overdoing it but using something like the Gutmann method would be stupid. Yet even then, it is possible in theory to recover the data so you ain't perfectly safe until you have physically destroyed the hard drive.

I find it really amusing that you should mention Google as "not safe" search engine but yet you list their DNS as usable. heh. ;-)

If I see something more. I'll just let you know on IRC. I think I've covered what I saw when reading this now at 2am.
(Jul 18, 2015 09:44 AM)Тоху Wrote:  One thing I am confused about is your VPN > Tor vs Tor > VPN.

As I understand, and as the OPSEC for Hackers link at the bottom of your post states around the middle of the slideshow (a bit before), Tor > VPN is okay, VPN > Tor = GO TO JAIL.

Tor > VPN
With this method you send data through tor and then to your VPN and out.
This method protects you from your VPN provider. They don't know who you are because you connect after going through Tor.

VPN > Tor
This method sends first data to your VPN then towards tor and then out.
This method means that your VPN provider can see what you are doing, what sites are requested and log your activity before you connect to tor.

That is a basic explanation of how it it.
Let's all talk about Schatten's thread now. 🎉

https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4912439

No? Okay. 😵
Feels good to see a thread like this.
I'll PM you something I wrote (but never finished) today.
Just in case you can extract some stuff from it and post it. 🤝
(Jul 18, 2015 12:10 PM)Asterea Wrote:  I would just stick to Tor and multiple relay's and a safe exit-node to visit .onion's and would dodge proxies to use Tor since they are not vey safe and stick to addon's that block Javascript, Flash etc. and use DuckDuckGo as search engine since Google is very annonying on Tor and not safe.

DDG? haha no, use startpage.
(Jul 19, 2015 07:26 AM)Asterea Wrote:  Startpage is good too considering it's set as the main s.e but why not DDG?

DDG is bad, in the paste they used amazon servers and their was a pic how there TOS contradicted itself and the owner owned a data mining company before.

Also veracrypt is on a Microsoft owned website and there is no audit like TC.
Cryptostorm is a good reputable VPN.
(Jul 19, 2015 07:51 AM)sinmar Wrote:  imo I prefer ixquick over startpage, they're owned by the same company.

Yeah it doesn't really matter which one you use but don't use ddg.
Great guide. These are one of the rare guide on this sub-forum that aren't completely fucking stupid.


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