Thread: How can you hide your identity on the internet ?

How can you hide your identity on the internet ?



i use the site Anonymouse.org

what are you using , and what is the best way to hide your self on internet ?

Proxies.
However, it is impossible to completely hide your IP address. Therefore, with enough determination your IP address can always be found, along with whatever information an IP address reveals. ^^

The best way is to simply turn off your internet. /doh

To help increase security however, there are many steps you can take.

One is using an onion-routing system such as Tor to maximize network security. Tor is used by the military, journalists, politicians, etc. to secure sensitive data and such. However, anything outside its network range is compromised.
Here's a list of what it does:

1. Tor only protects Internet applications that are configured to send their traffic through Tor — it doesn't magically anonymize all your traffic just because you install it. We recommend you use Firefox with the Torbutton extension.

2. Torbutton blocks browser plugins such as Java, Flash, ActiveX, RealPlayer, Quicktime, Adobe's PDF plugin, and others: they can be manipulated into revealing your IP address. For example, that means Youtube is disabled. If you really need your Youtube, you can reconfigure Torbutton to allow it; but be aware that you're opening yourself up to potential attack. Also, extensions like Google toolbar look up more information about the websites you type in: they may bypass Tor and/or broadcast sensitive information. Some people prefer using two browsers (one for Tor, one for non-Tor browsing).

3. Beware of cookies: if you ever browse without Tor and a site gives you a cookie, that cookie could identify you even when you start using Tor again. Torbutton tries to handle your cookies safely. CookieCuller can help protect any cookies you do not want to lose.

4. Tor anonymizes the origin of your traffic, and it encrypts everything between you and the Tor network and everything inside the Tor network, but it can't encrypt your traffic between the Tor network and its final destination. If you are communicating sensitive information, you should use as much care as you would on the normal scary Internet — use HTTPS or other end-to-end encryption and authentication. HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.

5. While Tor blocks attackers on your local network from discovering or influencing your destination, it opens new risks: malicious or misconfigured Tor exit nodes can send you the wrong page, or even send you embedded Java applets disguised as domains you trust. Be careful opening documents or applications you download through Tor, unless you've verified their integrity.

6. Tor tries to prevent attackers from learning what destinations you connect to. It doesn't prevent somebody watching your traffic from learning that you're using Tor. You can mitigate (but not fully resolve) the risk by using a Tor bridge relay rather than connecting directly to the public Tor network, but ultimately the best protection here is a social approach: the more Tor users there are near you and the more diverse their interests, the less dangerous it will be that you are one of them.


So as you can see, if you want to hide the best you can on the internet... you pretty much wouldn't be allowed to do anything.

Simply don't use internet :D.If seriously , I agree with the above post that you can't hide completely your IP. Identity? mayde if you dont have Facebook or other social profile.

what about programs like peerguardian

I highly recommend purchasing things on the internet with burner debit cards. In my country, you can put up to $500 on a card, plus a $3 fee, without telling anyone anything. To recharge the card, you have to give them your name address etc., but if you aren't purchasing anything more than $500, they are untraceable. You can't trace a money transaction.

PeerGuardian is useful for known government/business IP's, that does not stop them from using an undocumented IP, or in that case block any IP outside of the blacklist you're using. It's a useful tool, no doubt, but far from complete protection.

so the best way to stay anon is with a seedbox or vpn.. are there free high speed vpns?

Actually, the best way to protect your identity from things such as identity theft and the like is to have an active internet "social life".

That means having your own Facebook page with your real name / surname for exemple. The more active you are with your internet social life, the more difficult it is for someone to steal your identity on your internet.

It's not something I just came up with, this is what I gathered from a TV debate involving several internet security and privacy experts.

Originally Posted by Rhonwen

Actually, the best way to protect your identity from things such as identity theft and the like is to have an active internet "social life".

That means having your own Facebook page with your real name / surname for exemple. The more active you are with your internet social life, the more difficult it is for someone to steal your identity on your internet.

It's not something I just came up with, this is what I gathered from a TV debate involving several internet security and privacy experts.

That makes absolutely no sense. (no offense)
The average facebook password is pretty easy to collect, I've done it before. If someone cracks your password they have an unhealthy amount of control over your life. Furthermore, you NEVER want to reveal your full contact information, which many people do on Facebook. You can only trust Facebook as far as its privacy policy, and recently that's come under fire and never looked too good anyways. Going on the internet often makes you susceptible to attacks such as phishing or social engineering techniques. Even more so in the case that identity thieves regularly prowl social sites such as facebook and myspace.
Also, since many users tend to use the "automatic login" option, that's risky in the case that a hacker can obtain that information.

This doesn't mean you can't go on facebook, it's a secure encrypted server. Just saying that I don't believe pouring dedicating your life to the internet is the best advice. People who stay away from the computer in general are the most secure. (Although that doesn't account for other details such as proper fileshredding, and other things you should be careful about)