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[De-Tracing Guide] Removing Your Online FootPrint - Securing Personal Info

****Wrote this mini guide a while back, had it sitting on my computer and here I am posting it. Plan to add more later, as this is a brief tutorial.

Web De-Tracing/Footprint Removal Tutorial


De-tracing is the act of removing information about you from the internet, creating false leads and completely removing your internet self from your real self. Essentially becoming "fully anonymous" to any other web user.


Essentials/General Knowledge
To become a proficient De-Tracer, you have to become fairly proficient at doxing. Atleast getting down the basics and know what you are doing. If you have not done a couple of doxes and gotten down the basics of doxing, I'd recommend you look up some tutorials and learn doxing before proceeding.
De-tracing is pretty basic, and some people like to name so many different terms for different methods of de-tracing. I'll keep it simple for you guys and show some methods to it.

For instance, you look at de-tracing like an onion. There are layers to a person, and you have to peel through them to get to the core. At some point, the target probably messed up. You just have to find that point.


Deleting pages from search engines

First, you should be able to remove information that has been leaked over the web, from a search engine. Then removing the final traces of it, which would be its cache. Making sure to check the cache on google, getting the cache link and reporting both the cache link and the original link is vital to removing it from google's search results/the web.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
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De-Ranking Pages
The method above is used to delete links. However, sometimes the link cannot be deleted. It will have to be moved down on google's pages, so it is not as view able. For example, if a dox of you is posted however cannot be deleted. You can make the dox on the 5th+ page or so, so it won't even be view able by most people.

There is a couple methods to do this.

Duplicating. This works well if you have a dox posted of you, it is not removable without a hefty sum. You may want to make it mixed in with a bunch of fake doxes, and have the real dox on page 5 of google.

To do this you would change the information on the real dox, slightly. Nothing major, however small bits and pieces so it is a dox of you however all the information is fake. You can then post that fake dox, to other sites, over and over and over. Get your friends to post it etc. This will get the page ranked higher than the real dox. The real dox will eventually be put on the later pages of google. There are some easier more automated ways to post this. Using iMacros.

Continue spamming for about 2-5 days, and all the fake doxes will crowd the real one.






More on deleting websites
Along with the above 2 methods, you can use common sense and the law to your advantage.

There are many laws you can use to your advantage. Lets say your information is on a website. You cannot get it removed for some reason, de-indexed for some reason and want to get it removed.

You can use certain laws, to your advantage. There a several US laws, however one law in the EU you can use to your advantage is "The Right To Be Forgotten Law" you can get google to remove entries on the search engine using this law. As well as getting in contact with site owners, mentioning this law to them. Basically telling them you will file a law suit if they do not remove the information immediately.

Get yourself comfortable with this law, and the opportunities will open up for you. There are several US laws as well.



Up-ING the ranking of your false information
With step 2, you learned to create false doxes (essential for other reasons than this) to give the allusion that the fake doxes are real and in fact the real dox posted is fake. (Real dox is on page 5 or so of google).

In all your doxes, you can open up a notepad and set the font to 3. From there you can post the links of all the fake doxes you are posting. Make the links be in size font 3. From there you can copy the small fonted links and post them on each dox you post. This will link all the fake doxes together, upping the rank of the fake doxes while the real dox moves further and further back on googles page.



De-Tracing Routine
If you are de-tracing yourself you will have to go through every post. I truly mean every post that you have ever made to see what is vulnerable. If you are trying to make your HF "un-doxable" you will go through your HF and look for ALL loose ends. Chances are you messed up.

Start by going through all threads, see if anything relates to your location, a skype, a paypal email, a name etc.

Then go through ALL your posts, and do the same. Attempt to remove, and de-index as I listed above.
[u][b]To view vital information you may have posted, you can try (site:hackforums.net "Zayzo" "Skype" "@gmail.com") No paranthesis and if you are familiar with doxing like I suggested this will show any posts you've made that contain those keywords.)

This tutorial contains the a couple of the most useful methods that I find I use the most. You will not be able to remove everything in some cases, but for the general rules of de-tracing this should cover you.

I plan to add more, on Alias Integration and confusing the doxer in the near future.
Good HQ post. Until now i dont have any doxes on me since im not messing around alot with people :D But in the future this could be helpful
(Apr 9, 2016 01:33 PM)Caliban Wrote:  Good HQ post. Until now i dont have any doxes on me since im not messing around alot with people :D But in the future this could be helpful

This isn't about getting rid of data once its been compiled and released (also known as a dox). It's about getting rid of it before someone finds it and compiles it.
(Apr 9, 2016 04:38 PM)Agonises Wrote:  This isn't about getting rid of data once its been compiled and released (also known as a dox). It's about getting rid of it before someone finds it and compiles it.

well he talked alot about deleting posts/doxes once they are there and making them hard to find by spamming fake doxes.
(Apr 9, 2016 06:55 PM)Caliban Wrote:  well he talked alot about deleting posts/doxes once they are there and making them hard to find by spamming fake doxes.

I was more relating to your post and this part in particular:
" i dont have any doxes on me since im not messing around alot with people".

Why would you wait till your information is dropped and risk it being placed on TOR sites that wont go down, and that will require a payment (such as RansomBin) to have it removed. Why not get the information removed/changed before somenoe does that. You can be doxed at any given time.
thank you Chris Beyfan for your ghost guide .
(Apr 9, 2016 07:14 PM)Agonises Wrote:  I was more relating to your post and this part in particular:
" i dont have any doxes on me since im not messing around alot with people".

Why would you wait till your information is dropped and risk it being placed on TOR sites that wont go down, and that will require a payment (such as RansomBin) to have it removed. Why not get the information removed/changed before somenoe does that. You can be doxed at any given time.

well true. i really dont know what would motivate someone to do that tho lmao. Tbh i would feel flattered if someone had the time to find out who i am irl haha
(Apr 9, 2016 07:25 PM)Caliban Wrote:  well true. i really dont know what would motivate someone to do that tho lmao. Tbh i would feel flattered if someone had the time to find out who i am irl haha
Someone can request you be doxed via any doxing service out there for a measly $10?

Showing more than just removing fake doxes.
Thanks for this awesome guide. Your one of my favorite HF members on here.
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Thank you it was great post. can you please message me .
hey i cant pm you, i wanna buy ur doxing service, can u hmu on skype?
Great post @OP. Enjoyed each section of info.
Bringing this to the top, in case anyone needed help. Expect more tutorials soon
Decent tutorial. Thanks for sharing this.
Added a bit more, if a little more interest is shown I'd be happy to add multiple more methods.


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