Tutorial The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity

ConcernedCitizen · 05-04-2022, 10:50 PM

Introducing: The Hitchhikers Guide to Online Anonymity v1.1.8-pre.1

Releases are now a thing. This is v1.1.8-pre.1.

- View it here: Releases
- Download the source here: Dowloads

This is a cool project I'm helping to work on with some like-minded individuals. It is aimed at helping provide security, anonymity and privacy online for journalists, dissidents, whistle-blowers, lawyers, etc. I was hoping some of you might like it. I wanted to give it some exposure and hopefully also gather some content requests. We're currently looking to have both technical and non-technical submissions for things in the guide that will be public domain and explained in a way that anybody can understand. It currently details things like signing up to services anonymously, browsing privately, hardening home networks, setting up servers (both on-prem and cloud) for storage, and many other topics.

The website is available here.

The Tor mirror is finally available!

nightfaII · 07-10-2022, 09:22 PM

this was a great find, thanks for this

blockbrat · 07-12-2022, 12:37 AM

This is a CERTIFIED HOOD CLASSIC

mothered · 07-12-2022, 01:01 AM

An excellent tutorial to say the least.

I plan on checking It out In detail tonight.

noluv · 07-30-2022, 12:38 AM

Yo thank you for sharing this!

ConcernedCitizen · 08-02-2022, 03:33 AM

BUMP for update - the guide is going strong and has tons of new info you won't find anywhere else!

Andrea Bags · 08-02-2022, 05:34 PM

is this good for social engineering too?

ConcernedCitizen · 08-03-2022, 04:30 AM

(08-02-2022, 05:34 PM)Andrea Bang Wrote: is this good for social engineering too?

No, the guide covers privacy and security using Windows 10/11 and Mac and some aspects of mobile operating systems. It doesn't involve any sort of social engineering.

Defeat · 08-03-2022, 07:17 PM

(08-03-2022, 04:30 AM)Hidden Signals Wrote:
(08-02-2022, 05:34 PM)Andrea Bang Wrote: is this good for social engineering too?

No, the guide covers privacy and security using Windows 10/11 and Mac and some aspects of mobile operating systems. It doesn't involve any sort of social engineering.

They probably meant if this security would help protect a SEer

ConcernedCitizen · 08-03-2022, 07:31 PM

(08-03-2022, 07:17 PM)Canadian Moose Wrote:
(08-03-2022, 04:30 AM)Hidden Signals Wrote:
(08-02-2022, 05:34 PM)Andrea Bang Wrote: is this good for social engineering too?

No, the guide covers privacy and security using Windows 10/11 and Mac and some aspects of mobile operating systems. It doesn't involve any sort of social engineering.
They probably meant if this security would help protect a SEer

Yes, this guide has information on DNS, threat modeling, network security, physical OPSEC and other highly technical subjects, but explained in such a way that makes it easy to understand from any perspective, including non-technical ones directed toward the average internet user. The information is presented only as facts that we've discovered over a long time in our fields of research and as regular people just trying to be anonymous or private.

There are also many areas where we recommend other researchers that we've vetted and whose information we found to fit our own threat model: journalists, whistleblowers and the like.

Feel free to submit a PR with any updated or new information - keep in mind this is all information that is highly sought after for certain threat models and will likely be updated constantly, and that's what we're aiming to do. You can find other research such as malware protection, document sanitation, using Qubes OS, Tails & Whonix, etc.

TL;DR - I'm not a social engineer but the guide will be useful to someone like that to some extent.