Collaborate Disseminate
A vulnerability affecting desktop versions of four popular web browsers could be exploited by advertisers, malicious actors, and other third parties to track and profile users online even if they switch browsers, use incognito mode or a VPN, researcher… Continue reading Vulnerability in popular browsers could be used to track, profile users online
Recently while researching, I have encountered many companies that advertise ip-to-identity tracking solutions that could be used for advanced marketing. Obviously, I was very skeptical as such identification would require data from many s… Continue reading How does ip tracker map ip to identity [closed]
Say I have Tor running and am browsing the dark web with the Tor browser. If I were to save a local copy of a web page and render it into another browser, like Chrome (with JS enabled), would I then have a higher risk of revealing my IP ev… Continue reading Is saving a dark web page locally and reloading it in another browser a security risk?
Something like the Hong Kong protests for example. If a protestor wanted to use his personal computer on a network that is monitored, how can he change its properties enough so that it is not traced back?
For example, I would assume the MA… Continue reading What uniquely identifies my device to my ISP?
The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of people’s bitcoins up so that it was hard to figure out where any individual coins came from. It ran for ten years.
Identifying the person behind Bitcoin Fog serves as an illustrative example of how hard it is to be anonymous online in the face of a competent police investigation:
Most remarkable, however, is the IRS’s account of tracking down Sterlingov using the very same sort of blockchain analysis that his own service was meant to defeat. The complaint outlines how Sterlingov allegedly paid for the server hosting of Bitcoin Fog at one point in 2011 using the now-defunct digital currency Liberty Reserve. It goes on to show the blockchain evidence that identifies Sterlingov’s purchase of that Liberty Reserve currency with bitcoins: He first exchanged euros for the bitcoins on the early cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, then moved those bitcoins through several subsequent addresses, and finally traded them on another currency exchange for the Liberty Reserve funds he’d use to set up Bitcoin Fog’s domain…
The Modrian algorithm has no knowledge of the inherent hierarchies and structures of data. By using manual SQL one could do the following mapping:
Berlin, Hamburg, Munich -> Germany
London, Manchester, Glasgow -> United Kingdom
While… Continue reading In which case would one use the Modrian algorithm for (minimal) k-anonymization over SQL?
I want to send an email through Gmail without the other side being able to trace me. I actually want to report something. I opened up a new Gmail account with a fake name (I used Tor to log in). I did have to verify the cell phone number, … Continue reading sending an email without being traced (IP, identity) [duplicate]
The Tor Project, the nonprofit developers of the Tor network and Tor Browser, have announced two exciting developments for onion services: affordable DV certificates for v3 onion sites from HARICA, and new, easy onion site setup guides. About Tor Milli… Continue reading How to get affordable DV certificates for onion sites
I always hear on YouTube and other places on the internet that Tor is the best option to stay anonymous. Tor is used by many activists, journalists etc. hiding from oppressive governments and so on. Not a VPN nor a proxy would guarantee th… Continue reading What’s the point in using proxychains for an nmap scan when you could use Tor?
I have manually scraped multiple pages of search results on Google and haven’t found a single suggestion as to how to find an optimal k when you are trying to "k-anonymize" your dataset. All I can find is the obvious fact that &q… Continue reading How choose a k for k-anonymity?