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Let's step back
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 09:50 PM EDT
The really scary thing is, they will probably connect all your 'separate'
identities instantly. Metadata and analysis programs are really good at that
kind of thing. Anything with the same IP address is a dead giveaway, so lets
assume you are using your neighbors unsecured, or weakly secured, wifi. Oh and
the browser gives away all sorts of identifying information (see EFF page on
it), so you are using different browsers, on different operating systems. You
still visit groklaw, live on the same block, and spend the same amount of time
writing comments. Chances are you are the same person. Would be a giveaway
unless you tried to keep your favorite sites separate on different identities.

Alright so you keep your favorite sites seperate, use your neighbors wifi, and
use a seperate browser. You're never on at the same time, you are interested in
the same general subjects, you read (change pages) at the same speed, you never
click on advertisements (I'm guessing your already pretty paranoid here), you're
probably using linux on both sides (who trusts Microsoft anyways), but not
Ubuntu, you probably either know the same or none of the same people (ie connect
to the same pages as they connect to)... That's a lot of identifying factors.
And it's probably only a question of whether it is the neibourgh of you, not a
large crowd to hide in if they are sniffing ISP traffic.

I'm sure the NSA is better at this then I am.

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  • Let's step back - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 03:53 AM EDT
  • Let's step back - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 12 2013 @ 04:12 AM EDT
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