Complete anonymity

[hostie]

I heard that if you run your computer of Linux CD then you are untraceable, but I thought there would still be your IP adress, no? I guess that when you do work off of a Linux DC, you will not have any files saved it's guaranteed there will be no cache.

For IP, I thought of two ways, really:

a) Getting on a public library through fake ID sign up (they have very low security always).
b) Scouting for unsecured wireless connections around apartment buildings (sometimes happens you find one or two, then you can hang around that spot when you need to be untraceable).

Are there any other (software) ways I can be almost sure that FBI will have no way of getting through to me? I also know there are these anonymous surfing websites like hidemyass.com (http://www.hidemyass.com/), but I don't know if they're that reliable. I have a home connection and I have a computer that I need to be completely phantom.

[Naffy]

YOUVE BEEN HIT BY
YOUVE BEEN STRUCK BY..
A SMOOTH CRIMINAL!

but seriously, i always heard that was true too.
I would like to know the answer to this aswell.

[KillSwitch_J]

I heard that if you run your computer of Linux CD then you are untraceable, but I thought there would still be your IP adress, no? I guess that when you do work off of a Linux DC, you will not have any files saved it's guaranteed there will be no cache.

For IP, I thought of two ways, really:

a) Getting on a public library through fake ID sign up (they have very low security always).
b) Scouting for unsecured wireless connections around apartment buildings (sometimes happens you find one or two, then you can hang around that spot when you need to be untraceable).

Are there any other (software) ways I can be almost sure that FBI will have no way of getting through to me? I also know there are these anonymous surfing websites like hidemyass.com (http://www.hidemyass.com/), but I don't know if they're that reliable. I have a home connection and I have a computer that I need to be completely phantom.

Many libraries do not let individuals run their own apps on the libraries comps. So trying to run a Linux CD wouldn't work.

[hostie]

^ Thanks.... Can you enlighten us by mentioning things that will work?

[Jack]

Well, running a Linux CD might work, depending on how much they've locked down the machine, and in fact you might be able to bring in your own apps on a flash drive, again depending, but in any case you might face the wrath of a touchy sysadmin.

[hostie]

Are there any programs I can use to hide my IP / keep changing it?

I don't want to hack anyone. It's just that I don't want to get caught reading about stuff that is illegal to do and could link them to finding me actually doing it, if I were to ever try.

[Crackpot Pyschologist]

Are there any programs I can use to hide my IP / keep changing it?

I don't want to hack anyone. It's just that I don't want to get caught reading about stuff that is illegal to do and could link them to finding me actually doing it, if I were to ever try.

hahh too late now man, the fact you're posing this question has probably guaranteed monitoring, depending on what they find you looking at.

[BoilingLeadBath]

Depending how anonymous you need to be, here's my chain:

1) Just use a name different than what you usually do.

2)
* Connect to using tor, or similar onion network
* Set up a different name than you usually do.
* Use that name.

3)
* Connect using tor, or similar onion network
* Set up a different name than you usually do, preferably on a site you don't use normally.
* Write your posts in iambic pentameter, or by making all sentences have a prime number of words, or by translating to a different language and back using a machine translation service, or similar way of hiding your typical use of language.


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IIRC...
Tor, by default anyways, doesn't keep any data once you close a session. Load-on-boot key loggers may be an issue if working from someone's console, but could by circumvented, as you suggested, by using a Linux live CD.

[hostie]

^ Thank you, I read a bit about Tor and it seems amazing!! You are so awesome for posting that.

Would you say, in your experience, that Tor is reliable?

[The Cheshire Cat]

FYI many Tor exit nodes are run by the same people who would be arresting you for illegal activities.

[hostie]

^ How can they track me though if my IP is constantly changing?

[The Cheshire Cat]

You should probably read up a little bit on it. Tor isn't safe in the least bit now that it's become so popular.

[hostie]

Can't believe it's so hard to just be anonymous on the internet.

[Axiom]

Can't believe it's so hard to just be anonymous on the internet.

Think of the internet as a series of tubes that sends and receives packets of information. When you type something into the address bar you are sending a package through the tubes to that address requesting that they send you a package back that will render their webpage in your browser.

If you won't tell them where you are then how can they send you back that package?

[Mutant Funk Drink]

Connect tor through i2p through freenet. Use Firefox 3.5 beta, which lets you enable privacy mode.

[Syphilis]

Connect tor through i2p through freenet. Use Firefox 3.5 beta, which lets you enable privacy mode.

Do you know if 3.5 in private mode keeps it all in RAM, or if it writes anything to the hard drive?