Collaborate Disseminate
Let’s say Bitcoin had these rules from the start:
An address with balance cannot be a transaction output
An address can only be the input to one transaction
This would prevent address re-use. To what extent would this make Bitcoin anonym… Continue reading To what extent would Bitcoin be private without address reuse? [migrated]
The FBI recently used a 0day exploit to hack a TAILS user and expose their real IP.
I am interested in how they could have managed to obtain the user’s real public IP after compromising the machine. Since TAILS sends ALL network communicat… Continue reading How can malware discover the real IP of a TAILS user?
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~amir/papers/CCS18-DeepCorr.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKLtKgEn4k
I have some questions about this “Deepcorr”. Does “DeepCorr” really work that good? They say that “DeepCorr’s performance does not de… Continue reading Can DeepCorr’s correlation technique de-anonymize all Tor users?
Tor traffic correlation attacks by global adversaries
I know what traffic correlation attack is but I find it hard to understand this article or how it got to its conclusions about ‘de-anonymize’ ‘typical web user’ who use TOR within a da… Continue reading Can global adversaries ‘de-anonymize’ any TOR user in a day?
In every TV program where there’s a person that wants to remain anonymous, they change their voice in a way that to me sounds like a simple increase or decrease in pitch (frequencies). What I’m wondering is:
is the usual anonymizing meth… Continue reading Is changing pitch enough for anonymizing a person’s voice?
If you are using a vpn for anonymity you can allow cookies when you surf the internet but you must delete them once you close the browser to get complete anonymity. Is this correct?
Or is it that just allowing cookies removes anonymity?
… Continue reading What is the relationship between cookies and anonymity?
I am wondering if sharing a hashed email or phone number with facebook with the purpose of matching that hashed value on Facebook’s side is against GDPR? https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2445860982357574?id=1716638325041491
You c… Continue reading Is "Advanced Matching" of Facebook against GDPR?
A Twitter API that’s intended to help new account holders find people they may already know on Twitter has been abused by known and unknown actors to tie usernames to phone numbers and potentially de-anonymize certain users. How did it happen? &#… Continue reading State-sponsored actors may have abused Twitter API to de-anonymize users
Under GDPR, IP addresses are personal data. I have no need to trace back IP to specific users, but I would like to limit downloads to one per IP.* I do not want to store plain IPs.
My first solution would be to hash the IP. … Continue reading Anonymizing IP addresses using (sha) hashes; how to circumvent rainbow table attacks?
More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia: Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009 on a multitude of projects since 2009 for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum… Continue reading Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects