Cybersecurity 101 - A brief introduction to protecting yourself online.

[Cap. Willard Marlow]

I've noticed I don't really visit this site often. Can I really be subject to any of the risks listed here if I just visit or even log in the site around a 4 or 5 times for month?

What I mean, doxxers and people with a grunge agaisnt kiwis could go after very ocassional users?

 

[Carlito]

I've noticed I don't really visit this site often. Can I really be subject to any of the risks listed here if I just visit or even log in the site around a 4 or 5 times for month?

What I mean, doxxers and people with a grunge agaisnt kiwis could go after very ocassional users?

There's no reason that you could be doxed as a Kiwi Farms user so long as a) you don't state any personal info and b) your account isn't tied to others. In fact, an occasional user should be safer than a heavy user as the post corpus is smaller, thus meaning less posts to, at its extremest, compare writing styles against and go further from there.

 

[Cap. Willard Marlow]

There's no reason that you could be doxed as a Kiwi Farms user so long as a) you don't state any personal info and b) your account isn't tied to others. In fact, an occasional user should be safer than a heavy user as the post corpus is smaller, thus meaning less posts to, at its extremest, compare writing styles against and go further from there.

I try to use a different writing style than in other places. Looks like I should be pretty safe.

 

[EnemyOfTheLulz]

If someone ever is enough of a killjoy to link you to your posts the best course of action is to deny everything right? After all if you have done nothing illegal, not posted your face, and they have the burden of proof… It is all about who is making the strokes on the keyboard and you could just blame posts on people stealing your WiFi.

So really do not fear try hard DOXXers if you troll. Most people do not try to dox trolls and as long as you are reasonably careful and take steps two through four you should have fun right?

I mean I guess one is good advice too because you should think about your posts being legal , but step five is just no fun. Internet enemies are funny and whoever has one is instantly a lolcow in my humble opinion. It is just text on a sceen.

 

[Naturally]

I've noticed I don't really visit this site often. Can I really be subject to any of the risks listed here if I just visit or even log in the site around a 4 or 5 times for month?

What I mean, doxxers and people with a grunge agaisnt kiwis could go after very ocassional users?

So long as you follow the steps in the OP and aren't posting something that attracts actual government attention I wouldn't worry. The writing style comments people are making make sense, but even there, the amount of spergy analysis someone would have to engage in to make an argument that two seemingly unconnected commenters on the internet are the same person would be too boring for anyone else to read unless you were someone more noteworthy than "random guy with offensive opinions".

 

[Cap. Willard Marlow]

The writing style comments people are making make sense, but even there, the amount of spergy analysis someone would have to engage in to make an argument that two seemingly unconnected commenters on the internet are the same person would be too boring for anyone else to read unless you were someone more noteworthy than "random guy with offensive opinions".

My worries about writing styles are probably because I think I'm always repeating the same expressions everywhere and my own style looks very recognizable to me.

But you're right. I don't even express political opinions most of the time, so I'm hardly noteworthy.

 

[gooseberry-picker]

My worries about writing styles are probably because I think I'm always repeating the same expressions everywhere and my own style looks very recognizable to me.

But you're right. I don't even express political opinions most of the time, so I'm hardly noteworthy.

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE

 

[Cap. Willard Marlow]

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE

That's pretty cool, buddy. Wanna play a game with me? Just bring something to clean up the blood and unidentified organic remains of the victims.

 

[Coleslaw]

If you're not important IRL and don't piss people off online you have nothing to worry about. Nothing is undoxable with enough manpower, but if that enough manpower doesn't have a reason to care about you...

 

[Coleslaw]

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

 

[Coleslaw]

Check if your high school graduation video is public.

 

[Kitty Bobo]

If I was using a VPN the whole time, but one day it's not turned on, would it be pointless to go back to using it since I already used my real IP address?

 

[Vecr]

If I was using a VPN the whole time, but one day it's not turned on, would it be pointless to go back to using it since I already used my real IP address?

For this forum? Yeah, Null tries to delete old IPs. Not sure how much a VPN really matters here unless you have close contacts with cows or something like that though.

 

[murdered meat bag]

If I was using a VPN the whole time, but one day it's not turned on, would it be pointless to go back to using it since I already used my real IP address?

howd they know it was your real ip and not some tor node?

 

[Kosher Salt]

howd they know it was your real ip and not some tor node?

There are services that will tell you whether an IP address is operating a Tor exit node.

ExoneraTor – Tor Metrics

metrics.torproject.org

Detecting TOR Communication from the Organization

TOR (The Onion Router) is the most common anonymizer service and an entry point to what is called ‘the dark web’. In addition to its privacy-enhancing features, TOR is also widely used for malicious and criminal activities such as black market trading, child pornography and to operate a Botnet, to n

www.linkedin.com

How to detect Tor exit nodes? - IP2Location.com

blog.ip2location.com

Tor Detection Test | Tor IP Address Check | Tor IP Test

Perform a free Tor detection test to check if an IP address is a Tor connection. IP address lookup for activity such as a Tor exit or Tor node. Check any IP address on the tor network.

www.ipqualityscore.com

Identifying VPNs are even easier, because WhoIs tells you.

 

[Elaine Miller]

If I was using a VPN the whole time, but one day it's not turned on, would it be pointless to go back to using it since I already used my real IP address?

No. It would not be pointless at all. First of all, IP addresses are extremely vague. 75% of the time it’s extremely hard to get someone’s exact location via IP. However, your IP address can be used against you in certain types of attacks, such as a DOS/DDOS. People usually only get doxxed if they live in the middle of nowhere and their house is the only building nearby.

It also depends what VPN you are using. If you use certain types of VPN, such as Express VPN, you can switch your IP a limitless amount of times, if you switched the location of your VPN multiple times, it’s very unlikely people will be able to tell or even bother to sift through your IP addresses to differentiate your IP from your VPN ones.

Even if you slip up once, you should always continue to use measures such as VPNs to protect yourself. VPNs are just a good thing to invest in, if you ever accidentally click on a phishing link or install a virus, you’re automatically much more protected. There are people that argue that VPNs don’t hide anything, unless you’re threatening to blow up a government building, it’s extremely unlikely that anyone would ever tell the FBI to contact your VPN company to reveal your actual data.

(Also, unless you were at a personal location at the time your IP was unprotected, it doesn’t really matter anyway)

 

[seri0us]

No. It would not be pointless at all. First of all, IP addresses are extremely vague. 75% of the time it’s extremely hard to get someone’s exact location via IP. However, your IP address can be used against you in certain types of attacks, such as a DOS/DDOS. People usually only get doxxed if they live in the middle of nowhere and their house is the only building nearby.

It also depends what VPN you are using. If you use certain types of VPN, such as Express VPN, you can switch your IP a limitless amount of times, if you switched the location of your VPN multiple times, it’s very unlikely people will be able to tell or even bother to sift through your IP addresses to differentiate your IP from your VPN ones.

Even if you slip up once, you should always continue to use measures such as VPNs to protect yourself. VPNs are just a good thing to invest in, if you ever accidentally click on a phishing link or install a virus, you’re automatically much more protected. There are people that argue that VPNs don’t hide anything, unless you’re threatening to blow up a government building, it’s extremely unlikely that anyone would ever tell the FBI to contact your VPN company to reveal your actual data.

(Also, unless you were at a personal location at the time your IP was unprotected, it doesn’t really matter anyway)

your avatar is ugly af

 

[Elaine Miller]

your avatar is ugly af

I wholeheartedly agree. It’s distorted by a stupid filter I put on at the time as a meme, and it’s been frozen to my profile like glue ever since.

 

[Spooky Bones]

Never, ever, ever put your date of birth on your social media. Never let people wish you a happy birthday on social media (if you are not using your real name, why would you even use your real birthday?) One of the first things I do when trying to dox a Twitter account is to search (to:theirname birthday) and a lot of the time birthday wishes show up and then it's off to the races. Sometimes this will get you even if your name is not public, recently a school, birthday, and major was enough for me to narrow down the identity of a Chris ween.

 

[Coleslaw]

A lot of people share your birthday. A lot of people are your age.

But less than half of 1 percent of 1 percent of the world were born on your DOB.