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Privacy, Anonymity and Plausible Deniability

Tutorials to show how to achieve Privacy, Anonymity and Plausible Deniability online. I have a certain 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

⚠️ This Blog is open to contributions:

If you want to contribute, check out the gitea repository for contributions here. (i'm rewarding 10 to 50 euros in monero per new complete blogpost), if the blogpost you want to contribute is not listed below, validate your blogpost idea with me beforehand.

OPSEC LEVEL 2: Anonymity

📝 Explaining Anonymity

  1. ✅ What is Anonymity ? Why is it Important ?
  2. ❌ Why isn't Privacy Enough ?
  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. 🟠 Tails OS QEMU VM for Temporary Anonymity
  3. 🟠 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

🧅 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

🧅 Serverside - Self-Hosting Hidden Services (⚠️ Self-Hosting = Non-Sensitive!)

  1. 🟠 .onion website with custom .onion Vanity V3 address
  2. ❌ Basic Webserver setup (NGINX / PHP / MYSQL)
  3. ❌ Minimalistic MoneroSSO .onion setup
  4. ❌ XMPP prosody .onion setup (chat service)
  5. ❌ Gitea .onion setup (Code repositories)
  6. ❌ Nextcloud .onion setup (cloud storage)
  7. ❌ Mastodon .onion setup (Microblogging)
  8. ❌ Discourse .onion setup (Forums)


🧅 Serverside - Remote Clearnet Services (⚠️ Remote Hosting = Safer!)

  1. ✅ How to rent remote servers anonymously (Cloud resellers) ⭐
  2. ✅ Remote anonymous access setup (cockpit + ssh through tor)
  3. ❌ How to rent remote domains anonymously (Registrar resellers) ⭐
  4. ✅ Clearnet Bind9 DNS server setup (with DNSSEC)
  5. ✅ Clearnet Matrix server (federated clearnet chatting)
  6. ✅ Anonymous (remote or self-hosted) clearnet Mail Server ⭐
  7. 🟠 XMPP server (Gajim, OMEO encryption, ejabberd .onion setup)




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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