[Noisebridge-discuss] Anonymity on blogs

[Ryan Rawson]

Don't forget about things like speaking style, insider only knowledge and
viewpoints all of which if not identifies you, narrows the field
substantially. Just how many people could make such a comment and the enemy
may not need to use tech to identify you. Also, since its not a courtroom,
your employer may not need conclusive evidence to either fire you or hamper
your career.
On Sep 14, 2011 2:41 PM, "Fred McHale" <binaryfever at gmail.com> wrote:
> As Andy pointed out I already screwed up complete anonymity by posting in
a
> public forum. Still an interesting exercise for anyone who doesn't know
how
> to do this, especially since I'm not the only one wanting to say something
> about the situation. Thanks for the advice.
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Taylor Alexander <tlalexander at gmail.com
>wrote:
>
>> So I know there are lots of high tech fancy solutions, but what about
just
>> posting from a friend's laptop at a coffee shop? And then I imagine
clearing
>> cookies before, and as someone said using NoScript or something. (I don't
>> actually know anything about this.)
>>
>> Is that a plausible "good enough" solution? Obviously not against a
>> determined adversary, but he did mention he's not even sure they'd be
>> determined.
>>
>> Or really, I'm just wondering, how "good" of a solution is that? Aside
from
>> the obvious "if they find out who his friend is they can find a link back
to
>> him."
>>
>> -Taylor
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org
>wrote:
>>
>>> Casey Callendrello writes:
>>>
>>> > Tor is a good call, but insufficient against a determined adversary.
>>> > There is also a lot of tracking information your browser can expose.
If
>>> > you want to be truly paranoid, you should post on a completely
different
>>> > computer. For example, you can be fairly accurately de-anonymized by
>>> > tracking the your language + timezone + clock skew + installed
plugins,
>>> > all of which can be determined using Javascript.
>>> >
>>> > A reasonable way to defeat this is to use TOR, create a completely
fresh
>>> > Firefox profile, and install NoScript to block all Javascript.
>>>
>>> For better anonymity, the Tor Project now recommends using the Tor
>>> Browser Bundle; apart from reducing remote sites' ability to query your
>>> browser to learn things about you, it tries to make the browser
>>> population of Tor users more homogeneous.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | No haiku patents
>>> http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | means I've no incentive to
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>
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>
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