I am more worried about some dedicated reddit, or 4chan user getting angry than the feds. I'm weird with this because when I write posts I wait 2 minutes, and think how would feds interpret my posts, and is it worth posting that.
I will most likely make a mistake with my anonymity one day, but to have alts increase anonymity wouldn't you have to be good at changing your writing style?
at the end of the day, everything important and good about us is capable of being replicated in another individual. It's a little sad, but we are a collective. Our cells don't try to remember each other's names (bad analogy but you get what I mean). They just try to uphold the system that makes the body work. We are capable of teaching each other a great number of things while remaining anonymous. many comrades here have proven themselves curious, interesting, and empathetic people, and if they gotta change their names once in a while to keep themselves safe that's alright with me.
split your personality into a bunch of sub components and scatter them across all your pseudonymous accounts.
I keep a log of conspicuous topics or phrases from the way I speak. If I tell the same anecdote twice from different alts, I make a note to not do it again. But yes, insisting on not reusing usernames and on not camping on an alt for too long helps. It makes tracking individuals over time itself a matter of pretty intense pattern recognition that’s prone to error, which is inherently more of a barrier than just clicking on a single profile.
Kiwifarms themselves lists reusing usernames as the most common way to find doxx. Their opsec guides are filled with privacy tips which double as instructions for how to violate the privacy of others and they’ve been honed by people who make cyberstalking their life’s work. There’s a lot of institutional knowledge there (as well as a lot of intentionally casual racism)
Do you know if /leftypol/ is more privacy friendly? With everyone being anonymous and chan culture encouraging people to talk similarly, it sounds good on paper.
I don’t care for the culture, but it’s hard to beat complete anonymity so long as you’re accessing it via Tor or through a trusted paid VPN.
Kiwifarms themselves lists reusing usernames as the most common way to find doxx. Their opsec guides are filled with privacy tips
where can I find the kiwifarms doxxing guide?
It does seem a little like kayfabe, like the feds monitoring this thread know exactly who we are and where we live right? Like does it really matter for them if you change your handle?
I can maybe see it for getting doxxed by some chud, but I rarely see anyone even mention their job or the city they live in much less actual identifying info, feels pretty unlikely to me :shrug-outta-hecks:
Any homebrew software like this one can easily be hacked by pros and the admins would never even know they were there.
My understanding is this kind of opsec is basically entirely to avoid random 4chan/kiwifarm psychos. You're right that the feds can 100 percent find out who you are easily if they want to if they don't already know. Don't have a firm opinion on how likely it is for the former group to actually try to fuck with you though, (blessedly) don't have direct experience there.
It emphatically wont protect you from the feds. Probably not even a reasonably savvy 4chan sleuth. There is off the shelf software for comparing writing styles that can match posters with near perfect accuracy for anyone who posts enough.
There is off the shelf software for comparing writing styles that can match posters with near perfect accuracy for anyone who posts enough.
you can't just say that and leave us hangin dawg
Google “stylometry”
A lot of the off the shelf stuff is designed to detect plagiarism for universities, but can do other things too. JK Rowling was writing under a pen name but was discovered by someone using a free program called the “Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program”
off the shelf software? I have no doubt secret business and government software can do it but lets see the off the shelf solutions.
The field is called stylometry, a quick google search will show many options, but JGAAP is one of the free ones.
in the future, possibly in our lifetimes, computers will be be able to match writing samples to authors with relative accuracy for not a lot of money.
You do realize computers can already do that, right?
See: stylometry
There was an article on the orange site a while back where someone managed to link throwaway alts to people's main accounts using this technique.
Feds could nail me for irl Intel anyway I'm sure, my shitposts don't mean much. Reddit and 4xhan dorks? They can try. Anyone bothering to doxx this silly little place would have to be really really serious about wanting to take me out regarding a shitpost (pretty remote chance) or are a massive dweeb who would be seriously risking their life by trying. I have 3 friends who have taken human lives and not in war, it's not really a crowd to fuck with over online shit
I have 3 friends who have taken human lives and not in war
:concerned-confusion:
Not as concerning to like, me, two defensive and one as a result of someone basically being Syd Barrett's roommate to a guy and doing a private MK Ultra on em and so yeah, also not really on them. Regardless, those aren't the ones someone fucking with me should even be on the lookout for, the general point is, they'd have to take a plane into town, find me alone, do shit and fly home the same day to make it home alright. It would take soooo much more work to make doxxing me hurt only me and not both parties and that's above the effort of doing anything in the first place. You'd either already have an actual in person beef or be a serial killer from a 90s thriller to go after me for the dumb shit I post here
simply have an unoriginal username smdh
also, if by some miracle they somehow managed to find where i live, what the fuck are they going to do lmao
Imagining a fed trying to find my other accounts by typing "crime" into Google
This is like my 7th account and I try not to tell the same story too often. Sure writing style matters but even just changing account names is pretty good. I mean if I was trying to find someone trying to analyze multiple random accounts for similarities beyond usernames is a huge effort. Which is the point. Make it harder for someone to find you but never assume it's impossible.
It's like putting a padlock on something. Sure it's not great but it might make it not worth the effort
if you really want to be infallible you can change writing style but i think making a new account with a burner email every few months is good enough for people not to be able to track you down if they're pissed off
Deleting comments early and often, switching accounts, attempting to avoid linguistic analysis [gOOdd llUCk}, revealing fake details about yourself, not linking shit you find here to your discord friends while simultaneously leaving a comment. Sounds like way too much hassle.
its fine for me because all my comments are satire for entertainment purposes only and do not necessarily reflect the views of the person posting them; and any resemblance in any posts to actual events or locales or to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental
There is no such thing as perfect anonymity, but it is a small and simple step which makes it harder to build a profile of you. If you slip up, the amount of informstion that can be gleaned is more limited.
Creating new alts helps you avoid the crazy reddit/4chan people most of all. It's questionable if it works with Feds tbh, doubt it hurts though.
