Cybersecurity 101 - A brief introduction to protecting yourself online.

[Psychonaut]

Not sure what you mean here but just to be clear, we are not hosted by DreamHost. We used to use them for domain registration but they dropped us a long while ago after trannies blamed us for Byuu killing himself.

From an opsec perspective using your own domain is not recommended as it creates a paper trail that leads back to your real life identity.

Yeah that’s what I meant sorry for the confusion.

I think having your domain isn’t bad if you use tools like SimpleLogin. If you don’t care about having control over your emails then ProtonMail simply works.

 

[Psychonaut]

Has anyone tried Mail2Tor, is it a good primary email that’s privacy focused?

 

[Chris Konon]

My old e-mail account linked to the kiwifarms account has expired.
Is it safe to use Hide My Email service from Apple iCloud subscription to forward messages to my e-mail account, or is it retarded?

 

[KFC 2]

Do businesses dox people online? Like customer service people or Amazon employees.

 

[Fyrnite]

From learning experience:

Don't be an idiot and go by a pattern that'll be easily recognizeable for undesired attention if you don't want to be traced. This could mean doing a 180 on your personality and how you engage with different communities online. But the more times you're caught, banned and coming back with alts. You'll have issues in differentiating your behavior patterns because people will now have eyes on you.

Don't trust anybody, least readily and immediately. Only a fool does this. The less people who you know where you are and what you do online, makes you a ghost to them. Shutting the fuck up about certain things to certain people goes a longer way than trust.

 

[Your Mother Should Know]

If your IP is residential, there is a possibility that they can call your ISP and try to find out who you are. ISPs are not supposed to give out dox, but telephone operators are less-than-savvy, poorly-paid human beings who can potentially oblige a charismatic caller.

I think this happened to me off-site and it made me realize you do actually need a VPN if you want to remain anonymous from non-government and non-hacker people. I had zero personal information floating around aside from simply not using a VPN and they found out a buttload that I'm sure even data brokers wouldn't have had up-to-date.