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OPSEC: Privacy, Anonymity and Plausible Deniability

Tutorials to show how to achieve Privacy, Anonymity and Plausible Deniability online. I have a quality standard as to how i do these tutorials, if there are any improvements i can do on them please let me know.

SHOWCASED ARTICLE: Learn how to audit your own setup, to determine your Operational Security (OPSEC) Level, and find out what is the most appropriate internet use for it.


Articles Status:

  1. ⭐: Personal Favorite
  2. ✅: Completed
  3. 🟠: Work in progress
  4. ❌: Not started yet

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📝 Explaining Concepts

  1. ✅ a Nihilist's Manifesto
  2. ✅ Privacy, Anonymity, Plausible Deniability, Decentralisation, Security, and 0days
  3. ✅ Governments, Centralisation, and Law Enforcement
  4. ✅ Governments fear Decentralisation and Anonymity

📝 Explaining OPSEC ⭐

  1. ✅ Audit your OPSEC and determine the appropriate internet use
  2. ✅ Internet usage segmentation (QEMU VMs + Identity Management)
  3. ✅ OPSEC: Using the right Technology and Behavior




OPSEC LEVEL 1: Privacy

📝 Explaining Privacy

  1. ✅ What is Privacy ? Why is it important ?
  2. ✅ The main source of Privacy: Open source software
  3. ✅ The lack of Open Source Hardware (CPUs, Motherboards, GPUs)

💻 Getting started

  1. ✅ How to install Linux from a Windows PC ⭐
  2. ✅ How to install and update programs on Linux
  3. ✅ How to install GrapheneOS on a Pixel Phone

💻 Privacy means Open Source (FOSS)

  1. ✅ How to compile open source software + How to verify software integrity
  2. ✅ How to Virtualize Machines (QEMU/KVM Hypervisor)
  3. ✅ How to get privacy from your ISP using a VPN
  4. ✅ Route QEMU VMs through a Host OS VPN
  5. ✅ Password Management 101 (How to use Keepass)
  6. ✅ Serverside: Should I trust serverside encryption? Should I use PGP?
  7. ✅ Private Messaging (PGP encryption)





OPSEC LEVEL 2: Anonymity

📝 Explaining Anonymity

  1. ✅ What is Anonymity ? Why is it Important ?
  2. ✅ Why isn't Privacy enough for Anonymous use ?
  3. ✅ The main source of Anonymity: The Tor Network
  4. ✅ Using Tor Safely: Tor through VPN or VPN through Tor ?
  5. 🟠 Shifting from a public to an Anonymous online persona
  6. 🟠 Phone Numbers are incompatible with Anonymity

💻 Clientside - Getting Started (⚠️ Check if your ISP allows Tor or Not!)

  1. ✅ Tor Web Browser setup
  2. ✅ How to use the Tor Browser on Mobile
  3. ✅ Tails OS QEMU VM for Temporary Anonymity
  4. ✅ VMs for Long-term Anonymity (Whonix QEMU VMs)

💻 Clientside - Decentralized Finances ⭐

  1. ✅ Why Financial decentralisation ? (Cryptocurrencies, Exchanges and KYC) ⭐
  2. ✅ How to acquire and use Monero
  3. ✅ Haveno Decentralised Exchange direct Fiat -> XMR transaction ⭐
  4. ✅ Haveno DEX Dispute resolution (Fiat -> XMR)
  5. ✅ Haveno DEX Bank Transfer (ex: SEPA) -> XMR transaction
  6. ✅ Haveno DEX Cash By Mail -> XMR transaction ⭐
  7. ❌ Convert Monero into other Cryptos Anonymously (XMR -> BTC Atomic Swaps DEX)
  8. ❌ Monero Inheritence Management

💻 Clientside - Making use of Anonymity (Non-KYC Providers)

  1. ❌ How to get a mail account anonymously (Mails as a service)
  2. ❌ How to get a phone number anonymously (Remote SMSes as a service)
  3. ❌ How to get a credit card anonymously (Credit cards as a service)
  4. ❌ How to get a residential proxies anonymously
  5. ✅ How to rent remote servers anonymously (Cloud resellers) ⭐
  6. ❌ How to rent remote domains anonymously (Registrar resellers) ⭐

🧅 Serverside - Contributing to Anonymity

  1. ✅ Tor Bridge Node
  2. ✅ Tor Node
  3. ✅ Tor Exit Node
  4. ✅ Monero Node
  5. ❌ Monero Mining (help validate the network)
  6. ❌ Haveno Seed Node
  7. ❌ Haveno DEX Network

🧅 Serverside - Anonymous Hidden Services

  1. ✅ Where to host Anonymous Hidden Services ?
  2. ✅ Hidden Service with custom .onion Vanity V3 address
  3. ❌ Basic Webserver setup (NGINX / PHP / MYSQL)
  4. ❌ Minimalistic MoneroSSO .onion setup
  5. 🟠 XMPP prosody .onion setup (chat service)
  6. ❌ Gitea .onion setup (Code repositories)
  7. ❌ Nextcloud .onion setup (cloud storage)
  8. ❌ Mastodon .onion setup (Microblogging)
  9. ❌ Discourse .onion setup (Forums)


🧅 Serverside - Anonymous Clearnet Services

  1. ✅ Where to host Anonymous Clearnet Services ?
  2. ✅ Remote anonymous access setup (cockpit + ssh through tor)
  3. ✅ Clearnet Bind9 DNS server setup (with DNSSEC)
  4. ✅ Clearnet Matrix server (federated clearnet chatting)
  5. ✅ Anonymous (remote or self-hosted) clearnet Mail Server ⭐




OPSEC LEVEL 3: Plausible Deniability

📝 Explaining Plausible Deniability

  1. ✅ What is Plausible Deniability ? Why is it Important ?
  2. ✅ Why Anonymity isn’t enough for Sensitive use ?
  3. ❌ The main source of Plausible Deniability: Veracrypt Hidden Partitions
  4. ❌ Other sources of Plausible Deniability: Steganography
  5. 🟠 Sensitive Services: Self-Host or Host Remotely ?

💻 Clientside - Getting Started

  1. ✅ Plausible Deniability (Veracrypt Hidden Partition)
  2. ✅ Plausibly Deniable Critical Data Protection
  3. 🟠 Plausibly Deniable Anonymity VMs (Whonix VMs in a Hidden Volume)⭐

🧅 Serverside - Protecting Plausible Deniability (⚠️ Self Hosting = Risky!)

  1. ✅ Open source router VM setup (pfsense on QEMU/KVM)
  2. ✅ Electrical Failover (basic UPS setup)
  3. ✅ Internet Failover (Dual WAN pfsense setup)
  4. ✅ Physical Protection for an .onion Service (SSH + USB + Physical intrusion detection, automatic mail notifications, emergency shutdowns)
  5. ✅ Endgame V3 (.onion service Anti DDOS / Load Balancer / WAF service + Captcha) ⭐

💻 Steganography - Hiding secrets in plain sight

  1. ❌ Hiding textfiles into images
  2. ❌ Hiding textfiles into audio files
  3. ✅ Hiding entire zipfiles into videofiles files (zulucrypt)



Inspirations

  1. Hack Liberty Resources
  2. Privacy Guides
  3. Simplified Privacy
  4. The Hitchhiker's guide to Anonymity


Non-KYC VPS providers



Current services used:

  1. ServersGuru (KYC-Free reseller of cloud providers like Hetzner)
  2. nicevps.net (KYC-Free registrar)

Previous services:

  1. Incognet (both registrar and cloud provider)
  2. Hostiko (cloud provider)
  3. Other Non-KYC Cloud Providers



LEGAL DISCLAIMER: 
Across the entirety of my blog, in all articles that I made, I advocate for the legal use of technologies, even when I am talking about Privacy-enhancing and Anonymity-enabling technologies. In no way am I advocating for any illegal use of any technology showcased in any article on my blog. as the goal of this blog is to remain stricly informative and educative.


I decline any and all responsibility for any mis-use of any of the technology i showcase in the entirety of my blog. I also decline any and all responsibility for any physical, digital and psychological damage caused by the mis-use of any showcased technology, as the responsibility of such acts remains with the perpretating third-party. By reading this blog, you permanently, irrevocably and world-widely agree that I am in no way am responsible for any illegal action done by you or anyone that uses any of the showcased technology in my blog articles.

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