Virtual Anonymity
What? Why? When? How?
Andrei Avădănei
Web Developer, Security enthusiast, Blogger
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Anonymity ...
- is an art
- and become a virtual lifestyle
- is trying to hide an maintain a false identity
- reducing the chance to correlate the identity with
the man behind
- use communication channels difficult to be
sniffed
- it's NOT bulletproof!!!

Reasons?
- perform virtual attacks (random or not)
- mislead online publications
- protect the privacy of consumers
- avoid limelight (obscurantism or pseudoanonymity)
- promote freedom of expression
- and many others!

How to?

First wave...
- public & private proxies
- prepaid cards
- public WIFI networks
- TOR, tunneling
- SSL
- encrypted chat

Second wave...
- linux + mac changer
- i2p2.de + tor-socks
- tor-socks + wget
- noscript for theory of scripts tracing
- no java, adobe etc.

Third wave...
- fresh identity
- wipe drive + 3 times encryption + VM encrypted + fake OS
- change MAC + firewall
- pidgin encryption or other + SSL + PGP
- disable browser plugins, Java, Reader
- NanoStationM
- tunneling + RDP (ccleaner + remove event viewer)
- wipe drive (few times)
- forgot identity

But!
- Anonymity is a technique of hardening the
discovery of virtual identity
- We are humans
- At some point we break down
- Think twice if it's really worth!

Questions?