Moar #Anonimity Stuff by #Anonymous
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Welcome to anonymous activities:
This document is designed to give you a basic tool kit for protecting your
identity while performing anonymous activities. It is not designed or intended
for use as a toolkit for breaking the law, and any use in that fashion is
condemned. It is designed to prevent foreign government or corporate hostiles
[referred to here as hostiles] Further to this I will need some time to compile
a basic set of useful tools and processes that will help you to remain
anonymous, so please be patient. Any contributions both technical and social
would be appreciated:
Technical and social security in communications:
If you need to make private calls do not use a contract mobile phone or
landline. Even if you replace the SIM chip in a mobile it can still be tracked
back to you. Inserting a new SIM chip will change the number of the phone, but
not the MAC address. This is the underlying device ID on the frame relay
network. If you need to talk to people regularly in a private environment then
use external phones, [be aware that most phone boxes are tagged by the police in
certain areas due to drug dealing, so might not be as anonymous as you think].
The only way to truly guarantee your identity remains secret is to use cheap
[cheap enough to throw away] pay as you go mobile phones. Buy these with cash.
When you buy them do not look up at any cameras and disguise your face.
Surveillance cameras in shops are usually mounted above eye level, but to not
assume that this will be the case.
If you are buying something that you donât want to be traceable, wear something
that disguises your features and breaks up the shape of your face. Face
recognition software works by creating a map of your features as distances
between selected points, i.e. the distance between your eyes, the width of your
eyes, the distance from your brow to the tip of your nose, from your nose to you
lips, etc. The more of this you can break up the better, but you also donât want
to look so extreme that resemble a criminal robbing a bank, or indeed the shop
itself.
Also getting someone else to buy the phones for you, for instance a homeless
person is another useful strategy if you can be sure that the buyer is not
themselves a target of surveillance. Learn the signs of hard drug use as many
homeless people will be hard drug users, and that will increase the likely hood
that they are also drug runners, and make them less trustworthy. This is not
prejudice, but based on experience. A drug runner acts as the middle man between
the dealer and the buyer, and takes groups of drug users to predetermined place.
Drug runners will often be identifiable as putting themselves forward to do you
a favour. On the whole if you are approached by a homeless person they are
either a stinger [someone selling empty or wraps, or counterfeit drugs] or a
runner. Either way you will attract attention, and you will also probably lose
your money. Learn to remember distinctive characteristics of the people you see
on the streets. Homeless people will often ware the same cloths, hats, etc.
from
day to day. Do not go back to the same person, but instead stake out potentials.
An easy way to do this is by simply giving a beggar, busker, or big issue vendor
a small amount of money. This will allow you leeway to start a conversation and
asses any risk. Understanding the mentality of a drug addict takes practice,
they will either be eager to leave [because they have made their target amount
of money, usually the cost of a snow ball], or they will keep you talking and
spin out a bleeding heart story, often about needing to makes a certain amount
of cash to get into a hostel, or buy food. This is most likely not true, all
hostels in this country are free and there are a lot of food distribution
centres. You can usually tell a genuine homeless person by the state of their
hands, which will be dirty, although people in hostels might not wash or bath,
itâs actually quite difficult to keep your hands really dirty, and rough. Also
truly homeless people will more than likely have a bag of cloths and bedding [
Contrary to popular belief homeless people do not hide bedding as it is too
valuable]. Also a lack of track marks on someoneâs arms is not an indicator that
they do not use and traffic narcotics. A lot of homeless people hit up in the
main vein in the groin precisely so that they can wear t-shirts during the
summer.
If you are going to use a homeless person you are better off choosing clean
looking, slightly overweight, and possibly foreign man selling the big issue.
They are less likely to be a runner, and therefore less likely to be under
surveillance.
Really heavy drinkers will also usually be barred from most shops anyway, or
have ASBOâs against them for most major central commercial districts, they are
likely to be stopped and will definitely point a finger in your direction to
avoid arrest, this will draw attention to you.
Also beware of homeless shoplifters as they are simply not to be trusted. If you
are buying the phone off them directly it will probably be stolen and they are
likely to be under surveillance for that very reason.
This is information is presented as is, and is based upon personal experience in
the UK, and for the basis of identifying reliable contacts that can be used in
the UK homeless community.
Mobile Apparatus:
If you can, try to buy an activated phone with time on it. There are a number of
ways that you can do this. On has been outlined above. Homeless big issue
vendors will often have mobiles which they will be willing to sell [Make sure
that there is actually air time on the phone]. Note that this apparatus will
most likely have been used to contact drug dealers. Familiarise yourself with
the main methods the means of evaluating the amount of air time available on the
main networks for pay as you go networks for the country that you are operating
in. This will most likely be a set of numbers, do not trust apps that count
available minutes as these can be reset.
Managing data communications:
Using free wireless locations such as book stores, Starbucks, McDonaldâs
directly should be avoided. It is the first place that people will look for you
because the signal origination point will be tracked to that location, also they
will have cameras. If you must use those services, do so from a spot that is
within range, possibly from a parked vehicle, and only for short periods to
send and receive mail. Small portable Wi-Fi devices are also useful for this if
you can swap them out frequently. Try to get devices that use memory cards as
this makes it easier to store data directly onto them for reasons explained in
the next paragraph.
If you need to swap out machines make sure that you clean the machine first,
both physically, and eradicate the data, then dispose of it. The easiest way to
do this is to minimise the amount of data that is stored on the machineâs drive.
Use a memory dongle as a virtual drive for data, and use a login directory for
all other services such as temporary internet files. Most modern operating
systems will do this by default if you provide a user logon, which will allow
you to clean the data by using drive wiping software to overwrite the data
partition for that user. Do not simply delete the user directory. This will only
remove the file descriptor, but not the data. Top make the data unrecoverable
you need to use a utility to overwrite each disk sector used by the file and
directory structure. Using windows have a lot of convenience for removability,
but is inherently insecure. The following link will give you the software you
need for that OS. Disk Wipe 5.1 is freeware, and does not need installing. You
simply
need to download it and execute it:
http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com/freeware/t-free-disk-wipe-freeware-rdtawfxk.
html
If you are using Linux then Wipe is a good utility:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wipe/files/
Mac users can get a freeware utility from
http://www.supershareware.com/disk-wipe-for-mac-free/
Try to use disposable dongles rather than Wi-Fi enabled laptops. The Wi-Fi can
easily be disabled on a machine, and the dongle used in its place. This means
that the MAC address layer will reside with the dongle, and not the machine, and
will allow you to swap out connection devices rather than the whole machine
which is costly and dangerous as it draws attention to you.
Data Security:
The best way to insure that any data that falls into the wrong hands canât be
accessed is to use an encryption utility such as PGP [Pretty Good Privacy] which
is available on most machines. It will most likely come as a compressed file
like a .zip or .gz file, and you may need the relevant utility to open it.
Latter versions of windows have ZIP compatibility built into the file browser
[Windows Vista onwards] but an unzipped is easy to get hold of and free.
http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/
PGP is a public private key encryption utility that also comes with a file
shredder, this does the same job as a disk wiper, but for a single file and is
an easy way to create encrypted documents, and shred the originals. Information
on how to use the software can be found at:
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/
Microphones and communications:
The following links give detailed information about how sensitive microphone
technology works and are good links for other technical resources.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-directional-microphone.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone
Outside communication is easy to pry on through directional sensitive
microphones. There are several types, but three basically recognisable ones:
Parabolic microphones: This type uses a reflective dish in the same way as a
radio telescope to amplify the incoming noise and focus it into one place where
the actual microphone capsule is placed. They are often controlled by a laptop
computer, but are available as hand held highly portable devices.
Shotgun: This type is an inherently directional and sensitive microphone, so
named due to its length. They are usually hand held using and grip mounted and
used with a sighting device.
Laser Microphones: These fire a laser beam at a window [or other sound surface]
and use the disrupted returning beam to record the sound. These require a site
to site level deployment to work as physics dictates that a beam cannot be
returned at an angle.
Personal Microphones: These are devices that are usually placed in an object
such as a pen or any object large enough to contain both the microphone capsule
and the transmitter. Frequently these will be digital and scrambled so as to
protect the output from covert hostiles working against both you and the people
monitoring you conversations.
Basic Anonymous communications protocols:
Nothing can totally guarantee that what you are saying will remain private, but
you can minimise the risk of monitoring by hostiles. Most forms of covert
listening devices require a stationary target, or one that can be tracked
through a space by a number of hostiles with listening devices coordination
surveillance. This does not include personal microphones, which are planted on
the target and generally have a rage of between 1.5 and 3 Km. The receiver does
not have to be large for such a device, and could easily be something the sizes
of a cigarette packet or an MP3 player.
To prevent being listened to by external directional devices chose urban spaces,
and randomly vary them, if someone knows where you are going to be [i.e. if you
go to the same place to make a call] then they can easily set up a listening
operation. An open space such as a park is actually easy to monitor because it
provides a boundary where hostiles can deploy listening equipment.
If you are involved in any operation where you will be performing activities
that hostiles might wish to listen in on be careful with personal possessions.
Limit the number of items that you carry, and be aware of the origin of those
items, i.e. do not pick up pens from hotel rooms, or carry around gifts from
people that you do not know and trust. If you are offered things like pens
accept them, but get rid of them, or at the very least examine then carefully.
Refusing a simple offer of a free pen by someone like a car rental clerk will
simply arouse suspicion.
Internet Browsing:
When browsing the internet be aware that your activities are usually tracked by
sites such as Facebook for marketing purposes, but as we have seen through
âMetal Gearâ there is an effort on the part of security companies to obtain
information on the use of social networking sites, and it is very probable that
they are already acquiring Facebook data. If your using Google Chrome a plug in
exists that will prevent Facebook from obtaining data about where you click
through called âFacebook Disconnectâ which will do the job. Simply click the
âSpannerâ icon in the far right corner->Tools->Extensions at the bottom of the
screen is a link âGet more extensions »â Click on that, find the tool and press
install.
Protecting your friends and contacts list:
Why do this: To avoid unfriendly or hostiles from gaining information about
friends and contacts, although this wonât stop a determined hacker it will
protect you from idle mischief makers getting their hands on your list of
friends and using them to discredit you, harass then, or generally sent rude or
abusive messages to people you know. Remember that Facebook is a social site and
you probably have sensitive contacts about your family.
In Facebook go to Account Settings->Privacy Settings
On the âChoose your privacy settingsâ Page you will see a blue highlighted link
Go to the âSee your friend listâ setting and set it to âonly meâ
Another option is to create a new email account [Microsoft Live allows you to
have multiple account connected to one main account] then use that account for
Anonymous Activities. Again, though this is slightly more secure, a determined
hacker can still get you real identity from your email address. Measures to
prevent this will be covered in detail when I have more time, or when other
people start posting information. Thank you
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From now on any technical information that can be show to be valid [That can be
replicated, or is accompanied by some form of proof via a link will
automatically be included in this document. I cannot guarantee that everything
will be 100% accurate as I do not have all platforms on which to test every
surjection, but if another Anon says that it works, backs it up with evidence,
thatâs good enough. I do this only in the hope that it is useful.
