Virtual Anonymity What? Why? When? How?

Andrei AvădăneiWeb Developer, Security enthusiast, Blogger

www.worldit.info@AndreiAvadanei+AndreiAvadanei

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?