Forum Thread: How to Be Completely Anonymous ? Is This Possible ......?

Online anonymity starts long before connecting to the internet. Have you bought a laptop for cash? Did you buy it from a store far enough away from where you live that the staff will not recognise you? Did you drive to the store in your own vehicle (a big no-no)? Did you wait an appropriate amount of time before even turning it on so that any CCTV footage of your travel to the store and subsequent purchase will have been wiped? Are you installing your own OS on it prior to carrying out any hacking activities? If so, from which computer and AP did you download it? Can this be traced back to you?

If you consider the points above you may now own a hacking platform that cannot be directly linked to yourself. Now you just need to consider DNS leaks, MAC spoofing and suchlike.

In terms of adding steps to your current setup I would suggest locating coffee shops that offer free wi-fi and have a load of WPS enabled APs within range. That way you can hopefully find some that are vulnerable to the Pixie-Dust attack and add another layer between you and your AP, although you'd probably need to consider some basic changes to your appearance to ensure that if your activities are traced back to the coffee-shop you cannot be too easily recognised.

Clearly there are other ways to go about linking you to the coffee-shop; taking your own mobile phone with you could clearly place your location and the time you spent there.

I would respectfully disagree with Phoenix when they say that you can never be truly anonymous on the internet. However, true anonymity is incredibly time consuming and expensive.