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Virtual Anonymity
What? Why? When? How?
Andrei Avădănei
Web 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?
Virtual Anonimity – What? Why? When? How?

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Virtual Anonimity – What? Why? When? How?

  • 1. Virtual Anonymity What? Why? When? How? Andrei Avădănei Web Developer, Security enthusiast, Blogger www.worldit.info @AndreiAvadanei +AndreiAvadanei
  • 2. 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!!!
  • 3. 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!
  • 5. First wave... - public & private proxies - prepaid cards - public WIFI networks - TOR, tunneling - SSL - encrypted chat
  • 6. Second wave... - linux + mac changer - i2p2.de + tor-socks - tor-socks + wget - noscript for theory of scripts tracing - no java, adobe etc.
  • 7. 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
  • 8. 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!
  • 9.