Am I really anonymous?

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Hi, I'm new to KiwiFarms. I'm not sure if I'm posting this thread in the right place, but I just need to know if my identity and location/IP address are completely invisible on this site. They recommended a VPN and Tor during sign up. I'm using my phone and am not in any public place. Am I really safe?
 
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Normal users don't know anything about you except for what you present but Null, your ISP, DNS provider, and others will know potentially identifying info. Eg google probably realizes you come here when you see a youtube embed unless you take precautions.

How much you care about is up to you
 
Nobody cares about random people on here. As long as you use the basic opsec of a burner email and DON'T FUCKING POWERLEVEL you should be fine.
 
I like how people’s concern over internet anonymity tends to be either “I’m worried that a CIA agent is going to track me down using my IP address and browser cookies” or “yeah, I should totally post this picture of my butthole on Twitter with a package containing my full address in the background”, with no in-between.
 
First the only guy who knows your IP and email are Null and that guy refused to give user information when the government of New Zealand asked him to after the mosque shooting. So that data is in pretty safe hands unless we have some rambo hacker going after farmers. Also even if they do get your IP unless they get the ISP to play ball at best they could figure out what city you live in. Which is pretty tame information in my book and nothing to loose sleep over.
 
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It's impossible to be 100% anonymous, if there's enough autists mad at you, good luck. They'll find the tiniest crack in your opsec and CSI that shit.

That being said, as other users have stated, just don't power level or involve yourself directly in volatile shit, just sit back and talk about the shitshow in front of you. Nobody is going to try and find out who you are if you don't give them a reason too.
 
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You're only ever protected by the lack of interest in hurting you. If the relevant parties really wanted to hurt you, they'd find a way. These safeguards really just make it less economical for people to find you and ruin your life, they don't make it impossible.
 
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No, we are all anonymous. And we do not forgive and we do not forget 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
 
It's impossible to be 100% anonymous, if there's enough autists mad at you, good luck. They'll find the tiniest crack in your opsec and CSI that shit.
Shouldn't this be theoretically possible? If you've never revealed any personal information publicly on any accounts you have, there shouldn't be anything to be doxxed with. For example, if I have made only one social media account (let's say, Twitter) ever and I have never uploaded any personally-taken pictures, followed any family members, or revealed anything about my name or address (and used a burner email) it should be impossible to figure out any of my personal details. Though I will agree that it gets exponentially harder to control the information available about you online the more you use the internet if you don't pay attention to it.
 
No you're not. I'm watching you every move. I know what Cafe you're at, what table, what you drink and what food you order and I know that you didn't flirt back with the waitress, she was very into you I'm surprised you didn't notice. Don't worry I got her number for you and placed it into your pocket when I bumped into you. Stay safe fren and use protection (don't worry I gave you some condoms in the other pocket)

Love from

The CIA xxx
 
Shouldn't this be theoretically possible? If you've never revealed any personal information publicly on any accounts you have, there shouldn't be anything to be doxxed with. For example, if I have made only one social media account (let's say, Twitter) ever and I have never uploaded any personally-taken pictures, followed any family members, or revealed anything about my name or address (and used a burner email) it should be impossible to figure out any of my personal details. Though I will agree that it gets exponentially harder to control the information available about you online the more you use the internet if you don't pay attention to it.
Theoretically, yes, in practice however it really comes down to how badly someone wants to figure out who you are. Realistically in the example you provided, the only people who could reasonably get ahold of your information is the government, an ISP, or someone with tons of computer skills and no morals. Unless everything you post is extremely cold and robotic, someone with enough time and energy can glean info from something as innocuous as "I had ice cream today" or simply the way you write. There's a good deal of people with threads on this site who were found out through such seemingly irrelevant details.


Then there's the issue of how secure your computer/device is. Every time it makes a connection, you're opening a door, even if it's just briefly and even if you got all the fancy bells and whistles like VPN's. With enough willpower, someone can find you through info or through your device it's self, and because of how quickly computational technology is constantly advancing, you can't really keep ahead of new exploits or openings in the soft/hardware. the best you can really do is just make sure your device is secure as possible and be careful about the info you put out. Don't power level and don't intentionally go around pissing people off without accepting the risk that it can bite you back, and generally you'll be fine. There's an oversaturation of information on the Internet, the key to staying hidden is blending in with that info, leave as few connective strings as possible.
 
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It's impossible to be 100% anonymous, if there's enough autists mad at you, good luck. They'll find the tiniest crack in your opsec and CSI that shit.

That being said, as other users have stated, just don't power level or involve yourself directly in volatile shit, just sit back and talk about the shitshow in front of you. Nobody is going to try and find out who you are if you don't give them a reason too.
If the autistic hivemind can triangulate the position of shia Labeouf flag using air plane patterns
 
Realistically in the example you provided, the only people who could reasonably get ahold of your information is the government, an ISP, or someone with tons of computer skills and no morals.
AFAIK, the only piece of information that the account could give away would be an IP address which (again, AFAIK) isn't worth much because it only provides a general idea of location - and I'm not sure (unless the account is on a badly-made and seldom-used website) someone with l33t h4x0r skills could even get that (AFAIK, the IP would have to be stored somewhere for them to get to it, and they'd have to find a way to get access to the database containing user IPs - which would be a massive breach of security (not that it doesn't happen, haveibeenpwned.com has many examples of such cases, but it'd be very, very notable)). ISP and government are fair game though.

... someone with enough time and energy can glean info from something as innocuous as "I had ice cream today" or simply the way you write. There's a good deal of people with threads on this site who were found out through such seemingly irrelevant details.
If you've got examples of this (lolcows doxxed by this method), I'd love to go through them to see what exactly gave them away. I can't see any logical way to go from those statements to personal information without the doxxed person having accidentally provided other personal information first (e.g. location precise enough to identify city and area of said city, etc.) though the way someone writes could very well be used to link different accounts together (the doxxer would have to first find those different accounts which I don't think is particularly easy or even possible in a reasonable span of time without a lot of luck).

Then there's the issue of how secure your computer/device is. Every time it makes a connection, you're opening a door, even if it's just briefly and even if you got all the fancy bells and whistles like VPN's. With enough willpower, someone can find you through info or through your device it's self, and because of how quickly computational technology is constantly advancing, you can't really keep ahead of new exploits or openings in the soft/hardware.
Could you elaborate on this? I don't quite understand. Other than website owners or people using link-based IP grabbers (and governments/ISPs) I don't see how someone would be able to exploit something like this. The ordinary Kiwi Farms user probably wouldn't be able to (AFAIK of course).
 
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