[Savagelight]

	Originally Posted by Malkavia To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	This question is probably asked a lot but what simple steps (or programs) make it possible for people who surf the internet to stay more anonymous? Its not so much that I'm hiding from anyone but I'm interested. I understand it is almost impossible if the right person is looking for you, but some advice would be nice nonetheless.

It's not a matter of what software you use but a matter of how you use it, and how you think.
You have to give up the idea of identity. You have to become a person who has no self identity, no likes, no dislikes, no emotions, a completely blank slate. Once you can think of yourself as a completely blank person then you can use specific software to hide your IP address behind proxies. The software isn't important and it's highly recommended that you write your own, but the concept is called onion routing. You connect to the initial proxy server from a public internet access terminal like a library, your schools network, or even your workplace.

But this is not enough to be anonymous as hackers or cookies can track you by your browser. So you need to have a temporary operating system that you log into specifically to go anonymous. You do not download, you do not save, you do not store anything on this operating system, it's merely a shell or virtual operating system that you temporarily use to go anonymous. From here you can create a completely new identity which you only use for a few days to a few weeks based around or based on the identity of someone else, like a celebrity, or a personal friend, or a character from a book and you then give the fake name, fake life story, fake personality, fake everything, and only then are you completely anonymous.

Nobody will be able to trace your IP because your IP is fake. They hack your computer and your computer is also fake. You can put fake files on it to make it look even more fake. You don't store cookies so Google doesn't know who you are and neither do websites such as this. And you lie, lie, lie, so that the people you talk to cannot determine who you are either.

It's relatively simple to be anonymous. However the moment you become anonymous you'll attract attention from the feds and no they wont knock at your door, they'll just treat you as a terrorist, because anyone who knows this kind of knowledge probably is.

[Zsych]

I'd find a good proxy service to route all of your internet connection through. Tor is something like that but apparently slow. There are paid services that aren't slow.

[ScottH]

You really can't be anonymous online, nor protect yourself completely. The mitigation strategies you would choose would depend upon who you see as a threat to your privacy.

If it is simply some service, do as others have suggested and just be certain to not give them any identifiable information. They may find your identity via your IP and any of the other 56 metrics Google tracks, if they do business with Google, or if any government agency looks into you.

You cannot really hide from the government. During the Bush regime the NSA "turned inwards" and began spying on US citizens, installing "taps" on the trunk-lines of the internet. That means they can probably track--and log--every packet to and from every endpoint. Attempting to be anonymous under those conditions would likely amount to deploying a large distributed network (like a bot-net) through which you could bounce packets; the goal would be to make it statistically improbable that the watchers could prove you responsible for any particular set of packets.

If you want anonymity, get out of the city, stay off the internet, and talk to people far from cell-phones or other electronics. Anonymity is way cool when it's face-to-face. It's almost like "the good ole' days." :-)

[Oblivious]

Since we are on the subject, anyone got an specific paid proxy service recommendations?

Cheap is good, but secure is better.

I've been looking into this, but it's hard to tell which ones are the best.

[Americano]

	Originally Posted by Oblivious To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Since we are on the subject, anyone got an specific paid proxy service recommendations? Cheap is good, but secure is better. I've been looking into this, but it's hard to tell which ones are the best.

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looks really good.