Advanced guide to anonymity

											ADVANCED GUIDE TO ANONYMITY AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET

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If you're new to this, go to my profile and have a look at the beginners guide. If not, continue reading. This tutorial will take you through the advanced methods of keeping your information secure and off the record. So, let's begin.

Browser Fingerprint - Is your browser configuration unique?
When you visit a web page, your browser voluntarily sends information about its configuration, such as available fonts, browser type, and add-ons. If this combination of information is unique, it may be possible to identify and track you without using cookies. EFF created a Tool called Panopticlick to test your browser to see how unique it is.


WebRTC - Is your IP address leaking?
WebRTC is a new communication protocol that relies on JavaScript that can leak your actual IP address from behind your VPN. While software like NoScript prevents this, it's probably a good idea to block this protocol directly as well, just to be safe.
For Google Chrome users: There is no known working solution, only a plugin that is easily circumvented. Please use Firefox instead.

How to disable WebRTC in Firefox?

In short: Set "media.peerconnection.enabled" to "false" in "about:config".

Explained:

    Enter "about:config" in the firefox address bar and press enter.
    Press the button "I'll be careful, I promise!"
    Search for "media.peerconnection.enabled"
    Double click the entry, the column "Value" should now be "false"
    Done. Do the WebRTC leak test again.

If you want to make sure every single WebRTC related setting is really disabled change these settings:

    media.peerconnection.turn.disable = true
    media.peerconnection.use_document_iceservers = false
    media.peerconnection.video.enabled = false
    media.peerconnection.identity.timeout = 1

Now you can be 100% sure WebRTC is disabled.

Test for WebRTC leaks here: https://www.privacytools.io/webrtc.html

Improve your security with these Firefox add ons
Stop tracking with "Disconnect" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disconnect/)
Founded in 2011 by former Google engineers and a consumer-and privacy-rights attorney. The addon is open source and loads the pages you go to 27% faster and stops tracking by 2,000+ third-party sites. It also keeps your searches private.

So, this is for web browsing, VPN's and so on, but how do you protect your everyday data, such as emails? Well, the following email services are totally anonymous. You don't even have to sign up with your name or phone number.
Email services:
Protonmail
Countermail
NeoMailbox

Email Alternatives:
Bitmessage
Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data.

I2P-Bote
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer that allows for censorship-resistant, peer to peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using end-to-end encryption), and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. Given the high possibility of paths the traffic can transit, a third party watching a full connection is unlikely.


Privacy Respecting Search Engines
If you are currently using a search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo you should pick an alternative here:
DuckDuckGo (Tor)
The search engine that doesn't track you. Some of DuckDuckGo's code is free software hosted at GitHub, but the core is proprietary. The company is based in the USA.

Disconnect Search
Search privately using your favorite search engine: Google, Yahoo, Bing and DuckDuckGo are available for selection. It masks your IP address, cookies, and other personal info.

MetaGer
A metasearch engine, which is based in Germany. It focuses on protecting the user's privacy. Supported by 24 own crawlers of small scale web search engines.

ixquick.com
Returns the top ten results from multiple search engines. It uses a "Star System" to rank its results by awarding one star for every result that has been returned from a search engine. Based in the USA and the Netherlands.

Remember: If you're not comfortable giving your personal information, you don't have it. It is not a criminal offense to not give your private information.

Depending on how much information you have on the internet, depends on how easily someone can find you.

Stay safe
			~ e01 @AccessPwned 2018