This article was imported from the 2011 Insurgency Wiki backup, and sits here in its original crude format. It is in dire need of modernization and cleanup.
As the name would suggest, Anonymity is one of the most relevant and important things any Anon should know about. Your 7 proxies will prevent you from being banned from your favourite chatroom, your ISP cutting off your connection for all that CP you look at, and the police coming for a v&.
Maintaining Anonymity can be divided into two categories- Interweb and IRL
Dont use IE. Use firefox. You can test how anonymous your browser is here
Firefox now has GeoLocation abilities. Turn that garbage off.
In the URL bar type in - about:config Find the setting geo.enabled Disable that crap
Heres some XML definitions for it, go to start → run → %APPDATA% → Mozilla → firefox → profile → HTTPSEVERYWHEREUSERRULES. In there right click make a new text document, one for each of these and rename it to RULENAME.XML. DONT COPY THE MOTHERFUCKING ———s, just whats between them
<ruleset name="isohunt"> <target host="isohunt.com"/> <target host="www.isohunt.com"/> <rule from="^http://(www\.)?isohunt\.com/" to="https://isohunt.com/"/> </ruleset>
<ruleset name="thepiratebay"> <target host="thepiratebay.org"/> <target host="www.thepiratebay.org"/> <rule from="^http://(www\.)?thepiratebay\.org/" to="https://thepiratebay.org/"/> </ruleset>
<ruleset name="erowid"> <target host="erowid.org"/> <target host="www.erowid.org"/> <rule from="^http://(www\.)?erowid\.org/" to="https://erowid.org/"/> </ruleset>
HTTPSEverywhere list of XML files here
Using the FireFox addon NoScript will make it easier to add new HTTPS rules if you don't like or understand XML. Once you've installed NoScript go to Add-ons Manager»Options»Advanced»HTTPS»Behavior and type in websites in a list format. Just type the domain without the frills…
isohunt.com thepiratebay.org erowid.org
Websites use cookies to identify users who have visited the website before, and maintain information on them. Sometimes, if you have visited a site previously through Tor, then gone back to it without Tor, it will detect you and your identity is exposed. To avoid this, regularly delete cookies.
CCleaner will do the job for you and thoroughly. Also makes viewing your history impossible, should the FBI be knocking on your door.
Cleans more crap than CCleaner usually.
Similarly, Eraser erases deleted files from your hard drive, making them unrecoverable.
XPAntiSpy - disables alot of the windows tracking features. so logs arent created to begin with Download
Your IP (Internet Protocol) address (namely external) is the thing you need to most worry about. Through it, you are traceable to the very place you are sitting now. When you enter a chatroom, you are recorded. When you enter an online game, you are recorded. When you enter a website, you are recorded. It is therefore important to hide it, to remain Anonymous. If you have a dynamic IP address use that to your advantage. Change your EXTERNAL IP nightly. Sometimes resetting your router is enough, other ISPs you need change your MAC address to get a new IP. Most routers have an option to spoof.
Tor is the most effective for this. When used properly, even the FBI would have a shit-hard job tracking you down.
For quick anonymous website browsing, you can pick from a variety of online proxies here
Proxifier is a useful application that forces any online programme running to go through tor (or whatever proxy you configure it to).
MAC (Media Access Control) address is a quasi-unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network interface cards (NICs) by the manufacturer for identification. If assigned by the manufacturer, a MAC address usually encodes the manufacturer's registered identification number.
MAC Address is something that most websites don't usually pick up, though sometimes chatrooms/websites/online games will have ways of finding it. It is near impossible to trace an actual machine simply from a MAC Address, but it is also something unique to your machine, and bonus points are given to anyone who spoofs it.
If you use your ISPs they can record DNS requests and see wtf your doing. Use level3 dns its like the internets backbone servers.
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Slightly trivial, but websites tend to pick up on which web browser you are using (Firefox/Internet Explorer/Safari etc), so it can throw people off the trail if you appear to be using a different web browser to the one you really are. Using a proxy will change your user agent.
Site owners can see how you got to their site by looking at your referrer. If you click a link, the name of that page will be available to the site owner of the page the link takes you to. This is bad in a lot of occasions, such as when you are planning a raid.
There are some things you can do to block your referrer. For more, see referrer spoofing.
Yeah we know how much ceepee you got on that fuckin machine. Dont leave it out in the open. My best advice is to make a USB drive that uses encryption, pop it in, enter a password, load your ceepee on it. Feds come a knocking break the goddamn thing or just “forget” your password.
Travelers disk with truecrypt is your best bet. tutorial
Google keeps search history for 9 fucking months. DONT use it to search lolita and shit. If you want to stay annon use IXQuick Anon Search Engine
FUCKING HELL dont just have a open AP. Thats asking for pigs to sit outside and trackyour ass. WEP doesn't counts, even your mom can crack it. Use WPA2 with AES encryption. If you can stick DD-WRT on that fuckin router. DDWRT look in the router database. Youll thank me later.
When you need a email only once use a temp email address. Any real email providers log all your details such as IP and crap forever.
Hypothetically speaking; a person who was extremely paranoid online would probably be simultaneously:
When out in public, for example at an organised event, meetup, convention: