TypoGuy Explaining Anonymity: Your Real Identity

I spend a lot of time today reading stuff on null-byte.You tell to erase social media account like facebook , twitter and all other stuff. But If we are already someone on the internet can we really hide ourself ?

( And I'm sorry if the english seem bad , not my native language)

You can't just delete anything from the internet. Once it's there, it will be forever stored somewhere, even if you make it to delete, there will be always a backup somewhere, or will be reposted by others that saved that information before it was deleted.

The matter is how to keep completly separated your public internet life from your hacking activity. This means using VMs, VPNs, possibly different hardware as well, and make so that the two identities won't collide, even if one of that identities gets compromised.

Top tier would be not having your real identity on the internet at all, in any form, but for most people this seems impossible. New generations are growing in a world where if you don't have a Facebook or Istagram you are nothing.

Big names want your all life online, your pictures, your location, your files, your friends, your tastes... People should just learn to say NO. But that's not gonna happen, as people don't value their own privacy.

But today it's very difficult to stay anonymous.
Everything is collecting data...
Imagine yourself having a website you have to write all your adresses in the about or you can get in trouble.

I think the best way is to establish a border between the hacking things you do and your other personal life in the internet.

Cheers

It's not just a matter of establishing, it's a matter of actively defend it !

Everything is collecting data... true, and too bad. Some of those data about us are really information we willingly want to share, many other, is just sent without us even knowing it.

Try for example to connect your smartphone to your wifi network and just passively sniff traffic. Same applies for your computer. Do it for a day, then spend one more day (or a few days) to analyze it. Well, this is what happens EVERY day, and has been happening from a long time.

I won't spoil you then fun, but it's quire amusing

I know, but it's quite hard :D

A lot of accounts I have created in the past can not be deleted so there's my damn emailadress and a password saved for years :D

Just want to delete them all.

Can someone explain me this:

"But you could also just spam your own email with an email bomber so the data will be lost and then change password to something more than 30 characters." - Quote: TypoGuy

Wouldn't I get than in trouble with my email provider? :D
Any kind of tactic to kill old accounts with no delete opportunity?

BTW
Great site to look if its easy or impossible to delete an account.
http://justdelete.me/
Recommend everybody to take a look at it ;)

Cheers

You have a very good point there. However if you dont want to risk it, you would delete the website also.

I agree with TripHat that nowadays, we need to have two identities that won't collide. Well said. I feel pursuing total anonymity with one identity is a blind ally that leads nowhere. Complete waste of time. But being aware of what you are really doing with social media...now that's something to educate yourself on.

You are true Triphat. However it is possible to remove your data from places where they would be stored, as you stated. If you want to take the time to crack the server or database and manually remove yourself from their system incl. backups if thats the case also, then you will be removed completely.

Remember that when a hacker sets himself a goal, the hacker will always achieve it. It might take an hour 3 days or a year. but eventually he will succeed.

Yeah, endurance is a key element for success, but still there are a lot of factors that make the goal near impossible:

• if you just make it to delete yourself, and for some reason you make a single mistake, or leave behind just one backup, it will be crystal clear who is the perpetrator of the attack. So you don't delete just yourself, but possibly thousands people to create a sort of smokescreen around you (it's fine when you want to delete yourself, but it's not fine when you have to destroy other people's data on the way).

• Backups are not always online, they could be possibly stored in offline vaults, so physical access is needed (good luck entering Steel Mountain before your data is delivered to other five unknown locations)

• 3rd party services might cache your data for advertisement or archive purpose, making your informations exponentially exposed, backed up, and disseminated in servers (and offline backups) around the world.

• Spy agencies also possibly have a record of it, as they actively and passively collect a hugeload of traffic every second. I've seen underground NSA data centers that are bigger than my town. Steel Mountain's workers might not shoot you at sight, but those will.

These are just a few key factors that should make one think that it's better NOT putting your information out in the first place. And whenever they are already there, just fly under the radar and keep your real identity on a completly different channel than your hacking life.

not sure if I understand your question completely. But no I am not telling you to delete your social accounts. I'm saying if you delete your social accounts it will benefit your hacking identity.

I am really excited for this series, TypoGuy.
I personally love exploring the concept of anonymity and how it can be applied in real world situations.

I will be closely following this series!
+1

I am happy to hear that. thanks for the +1