How To Become Invisible Online

Summary

Dieses Video bietet umfassende Informationen, um im Internet unsichtbar zu werden. Es erklärt die notwendigen Tools und deren Funktionen, stellt drei Anonymitätslevel vor und zeigt, wie man sie implementieren kann. Es deckt alles von starken Passwörtern und mehrstufiger Authentifizierung bis hin zur Nutzung des Tor-Browsers und verschlüsselter Kommunikationstools ab. Lernen Sie, wie Sie Ihre Online-Spuren minimieren und Ihre Privatsphäre schützen, ohne auf Bequemlichkeit zu verzichten.

Takeaways

• 😎 Anonymität im Internet kann in drei Stufen erreicht werden: Schwierig zu hacken, schwer zu verfolgen und vollkommen unsichtbar.
• 🔒 Die erste Stufe der Anonymität, 'schwierig zu hacken', beinhaltet das Erstellen starker Passwörter, das Zurückhalten persönlicher Informationen und das Erstellen mehrerer E-Mail-Adressen.
• 🔑 Starkes Passwort: Verwenden Sie 25 Zeichen oder mehr und erstellen Sie ein sich erinnernbares Passwort durch die Verwendung von Sätzen oder Liedtexten, die Sie umwandeln können.
• 📬 Mehrere E-Mail-Adressen: Unterteilen Sie Ihre E-Mail-Kommunikation in verschiedene Bereiche des Lebens, um Ihre Online-Sicherheit und -Privatsphäre zu erhöhen.
• 🌐 Verwenden Sie den Tor-Browser, um Ihre IP-Adresse zu maskieren und so Ihre Online-Aktivitäten vor Trackern zu schützen.
• 🔗 VPNs können helfen, Ihre tatsächliche IP-Adresse vor Websites zu verbergen, bieten jedoch keine vollständige Anonymität.
• 🗝️ Passwort-Manager wie Dashlane oder open-source Lösungen wie KeePass können Ihnen helfen, starke Passwörter zu erstellen und zu verwalten.
• 📱 Verwenden Sie verschlüsselte Messaging-Apps wie Signal oder Chat Secure, um Ihre Kommunikation vor Überwachung zu schützen.
• 🎯 Um vollkommen unsichtbar zu sein, müssen Sie auch andere Faktoren berücksichtigen, die Ihre Identität preisgeben könnten, wie Geräteinformationen, Betriebssystem oder Internetverbindung.
• 🛡️ Um die 'Exit-Node-Problematik' von Tor zu umgehen, können Sie einen eigenen Proxy erstellen oder als Proxy fungieren, um Ihre tatsächliche IP-Adresse zu verbergen.
• 🌐 Um völlig unsichtbar zu sein, könnten Sie ein vorbereitetes Smartphone oder Modem mit Vorauszahlung verwenden, um sich über öffentliches WLAN zu verbinden, während Sie sich vor Überwachungskameras schützen.
• 🚫 Wichtig ist, dass Sie keine persönlichen Informationen preisgeben, die Sie mit Ihrer Identität in Verbindung bringen könnten, um eine vollständige Anonymität zu erreichen.

Q & A

Was ist das Hauptziel des Videos?

Das Hauptziel des Videos ist, den Zuschauern alles zu erklären, was sie brauchen, um sich online unsichtbar zu machen, einschließlich der benötigten Tools und der drei Stufen der Anonymität.

Was bedeutet es, 'vollständig unsichtbar' zu sein?

Vollständig unsichtbar zu sein bedeutet, dass man keine Spuren im Internet hinterlässt und für niemanden nachverfolgbar ist, was in der Regel nur erforderlich ist, wenn eine Regierungsbehörde einen aktiv sucht.

Wie viele Stufen der Anonymität gibt es und was ist der Unterschied zwischen ihnen?

Es gibt drei Stufen der Anonymität: Schwierig zu hacken, schwierig zu verfolgen und vollständig unsichtbar. Jede Stufe erhöht die Anonymität und Sicherheit, verlangt jedoch auch mehr Anstrengung und Aufwand.

Was sind die drei Schritte, um 'schwierig zu hacken' zu werden?

Die drei Schritte sind: Starke Passwörter erstellen, minimale persönliche Informationen preiszugeben und mehrere E-Mail-Adressen zu verwenden.

Warum sollten lange Passwörter verwendet werden?

Lange Passwörter sind stärker, weil sie schwerer zu knacken sind, da moderne Computer kürzeren Passwörtern gegenüber schneller brechen können.

Was ist ein sichereres Verfahren, um Passwörter zu speichern, als sie in der Notes-App zu notieren?

Ein sichereres Verfahren ist der Einsatz eines Passwortmanagers, der nicht nur zufälligere Passwörter erstellen kann, sondern sie auch sicher speichern kann.

Was ist der TOR-Browser und wie hilft er dabei, anonym im Internet zu surfen?

Der TOR-Browser ist ein Tool, das Ihre IP-Adresse randomisiert und End-to-End-Verschlüsselung verwendet, um Ihre Identität vor Websites zu verbergen und Ihre Surfaktivitäten zu verschlüsseln.

Was sind einige der Faktoren, die verwendet werden können, um einen Benutzer im Internet zu identifizieren?

Faktoren wie IP-Adresse, Gerät, Betriebssystem, Wi-Fi-Verbindung, Internetdienstanbieter, Bildschirmgröße und -auflösung können verwendet werden, um einen Benutzer zu identifizieren.

Was ist das 'Exit-Node-Problem' im Zusammenhang mit TOR und wie kann es behoben werden?

Das Exit-Node-Problem bezieht sich auf das letzte Router-Element im TOR-Netzwerk, das Anfragen in Klartext sendet. Um dieses Problem zu beheben, kann man entweder einen eigenen Proxy erstellen oder einen Proxy verwenden, an dem man nicht persönlich ist.

Was sind einige der Maßnahmen, die ergriffen werden können, um eine vollständige Unsichtbarkeit zu erreichen?

Um vollständig unsichtbar zu sein, kann man Maßnahmen wie den Einsatz eines Proxys, die Verwendung von VPNs, das Bedecken des Gesichts vor Überwachungskameras, das Kaufen von Burner-Telefonen oder 4G-Internet-Modems mit Bargeld und das Verwenden von öffentlichem WLAN ergreifen.

Welche Ressourcen werden am Ende des Videos empfohlen, um mehr über Anonymität im Internet zu lernen?

Am Ende des Videos werden Ressourcen wie 'The Art of Invisibility' von Kevin Mitnick und Links zu den erwähnten Tools und Methoden empfohlen.

Outlines

00:00

🕵️‍♂️ Anonymität im Internet - Grundlagen

Dieses Video gibt einen Überblick über die notwendigen Schritte, um sich online anonym zu verhalten. Es erklärt, welche Tools verwendet werden und welche Ebenen der Anonymität es gibt. Es wird betont, dass vollständige Unsichtbarkeit fast niemandem nötig ist, außer in Fällen, wo eine Regierungsbehörde einen aktiv verfolgt. Das Hauptziel ist es, möglichst keine Spuren zurückzulassen und diese so zu verstreuen, dass eine Rückverfolgung zu Schwierigkeiten führt. Zudem wird aufgeklärt, dass viele Unternehmen nur dann Daten sammeln können, wenn wir es ihnen erlauben, indem wir Informationen freiwillig preisgeben.

05:01

🔒 Schritte zur Erreichung der Stufe 1 der Anonymität

Der erste Schritt zur Anonymität besteht darin, starke Passwörter zu erstellen, die 25 Zeichen oder mehr umfassen sollten. Um diese zu erinnern, wird empfohlen, einen Satz oder ein Lied zu verwenden und nach eigenem Regelwerk zu modifizieren. Außerdem sollte man persönliche Informationen nur im Minimum preisgeben und mehrere E-Mail-Adressen verwenden, um verschiedene Aspekte des Lebens zu trennen und die Sicherheit zu erhöhen. Es wird auch auf die Verwendung von Passwort-Managern hingewiesen, die sowohl beim Erstellen als auch beim Speichern von Passwörtern helfen.

10:02

🌐 Verwendung des Tor-Browsers für Stufe 2 der Anonymität

Um schwer nachverfolgbar zu sein, wird empfohlen, den Tor-Browser zu verwenden, der die IP-Adresse verschleiert und End-to-End-Verschlüsselung anwendet. Tor nutzt sogenannte Onion-Routing, bei dem die Daten mehrfach verschlüsselt werden, um eine Rückverfolgung zu erschweren. Zusätzlich wird auf die Verwendung verschlüsselter Messaging-Apps wie Chat Secure und Signal hingewiesen, die ebenfalls zur Anonymität beitragen.

15:03

🚀 Stufe 3 der Anonymität: Komplett Unsichtbar

Um vollständig unsichtbar zu sein, müssen nicht nur die IP-Adresse und die Aktivitäten geschützt werden, sondern auch der verwendete Gerätetyp, das Betriebssystem, die Internetverbindung und andere Merkmale, die zur Identifizierung beitragen können. Hierzu gehört die Verwendung von Proxies oder eigener Exit-Node-Sicherung, um das Risiko durch Exit-Nodes im Tor-Netzwerk zu minimieren. Es wird auch auf die Verwendung von VPNs und die Bedeutung von Open-Source-Tools wie KeePass für den Passwort-Manager hinzugefügt.

20:04

🎭 Letzte Schritte zur absoluten Anonymität

Für absolute Anonymität werden drastischere Maßnahmen empfohlen, darunter das Kaufen von Laptops und Handys mit Bargeld, um sie nicht zurückverfolgbar zu machen, und das ausschließliche Nutzen dieser Geräte in öffentlichen Orten, um eine Verbindung zum tatsächlichen Standort zu verhindern. Auch die Nutzung von Burner-Telefonen und die Beachtung von Maßnahmen zur Vermeidung von Überwachungskameras werden als Teil der Strategie zur Erreichung von Anonymität beschrieben. Es wird betont, dass diese Maßnahmen viel Anstrengung erfordern und nur in Ausnahmefällen notwendig sind.

Keywords

💡Anonymität

Anonymität bezieht sich auf den Zustand, in dem eine Person keiner Identifizierung unterliegt. Im Video ist Anonymität das zentrale Thema, da es erklärt, wie man sich im Internet unsichtbar macht. Ein Beispiel ist die Nutzung von Tools wie Tor, um die eigene IP-Adresse zu verbergen und so die Identität zu schützen.

💡Tor-Browser

Der Tor-Browser ist ein spezielles Browser-Programm, das verschlüsselte Verbindungen nutzt, um die Anonymität des Benutzers im Internet zu gewährleisten. Im Video wird er als Mittel eingesetzt, um die IP-Adresse zu maskieren und so das Überwachen der Online-Aktivitäten zu verhindern.

💡IP-Adresse

Die IP-Adresse ist eine eindeutige Nummer, die jedem Internet-Gerät zugewiesen wird und es ermöglicht, Datenübertragungen zu vermitteln. Im Video wird betont, dass die Maskierung der IP-Adresse ein entscheidender Schritt ist, um anonym im Internet zu surfen und so die Identität vor Trackern zu schützen.

💡Passwort-Manager

Ein Passwort-Manager ist ein Tool, das dazu dient, Passwörter sicher zu speichern und zu verwalten. Im Video wird empfohlen, ein Passwort-Manager zu verwenden, um komplexe Passwörter zu erstellen und zu verwalten, um Accounts besser vor Hacks zu schützen.

💡Verschlüsselung

Verschlüsselung ist der Prozess, bei dem Informationen in eine Form umgewandelt werden, die nur von autorisierten Personen gelesen werden kann. Im Video wird die End-to-End-Verschlüsselung von Tor und verschlüsselte Messaging-Apps als Mittel zur Sicherung der Kommunikation und Daten vor unbefugtem Zugriff beschrieben.

💡VPN (Virtual Private Network)

Eine VPN ist ein Netzwerk, das eine sichere, verschlüsselte Verbindung zwischen dem Benutzer und dem Internet bietet. Im Video wird erläutert, dass VPNs zwar helfen können, die eigene IP-Adresse zu verbergen, aber nicht ausreichend sind, um vollständig unsichtbar zu werden.

💡Exit-Node

Der Begriff 'Exit-Node' bezieht sich im Zusammenhang mit Tor auf den letzten Knoten, der die verschlüsselte Anfrage entschlüsselt, bevor sie zum Ziel-Website gesendet wird. Im Video wird die Exit-Node als potenzielles Risiko für die Anonymität des Benutzers beschrieben, da sie möglicherweise Rückschlüsse auf die Herkunft der Anfrage zulassen könnte.

💡Proxy

Ein Proxy ist ein Server oder eine Anwendung, die als Zwischenstufe zwischen dem Benutzer und dem Internet dient. Im Video wird die Nutzung eines Proxies oder das Einrichten eines eigenen Proxies als Methode beschrieben, um die Anonymität bei der Nutzung des Tor-Browsers weiter zu erhöhen.

💡End-to-End-Verschlüsselung

End-to-End-Verschlüsselung bedeutet, dass die Kommunikation zwischen dem Absender und dem Empfänger verschlüsselt ist, sodass niemand, der die Daten überwacht, die Inhalte lesen kann. Im Video wird dies als wichtige Eigenschaft von verschlüsselten Messaging-Apps und E-Mail-Diensten hervorgehoben.

💡Datenschutz

Datenschutz bezieht sich auf die Maßnahmen und Vorsichtsmassnahmen, die ergriffen werden, um persönliche Informationen vor unbefugtem Zugriff, Offenlegung oder Missbrauch zu schützen. Im Video wird die Wichtigkeit des Datenschutzes betont, indem verschiedene Tools und Methoden vorgestellt werden, die dazu beitragen, den Online-Datenschutz zu erhöhen.

💡Kryptografie

Kryptografie ist die Wissenschaft von Verschlüsselungsmethoden und -systemen, die zum Schutz von Informationen verwendet werden. Im Video wird erwähnt, wie Benutzer eigene Verschlüsselungsregeln erstellen können, um Passwörter zu generieren, die schwer zu knacken sind.

Highlights

Erklärung der drei Stufen der Anonymität online, um ein Verständnis für die gewünschte Anonymitätsstufe zu erhalten.

Die meisten Menschen benötigen nur eine einfache Anonymität, die nicht komplett unsichtbar ist.

Voller Unsichtbarkeit ist nur notwendig, wenn eine Regierungsbehörde aktiv nach jemandem sucht.

Online-Versteckspiel beinhaltet das Verlassen der geringsten möglichen Spuren und deren Verbreitung, um die Identifizierung zu erschweren.

Google, Facebook und andere Unternehmen verfolgen, was man ihnen erlaubt und oft freiwillig gibt.

Erster Schritt zur Online-Unsichtbarkeit: Aufhören, persönliche Informationen preiszugeben.

Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zur Erstellung starker Passwörter und Erinnerung durch selbst erstellte Regeln.

Verwendung von Passwort-Managern zur sicheren Passwort-Erstellung und -Speicherung.

Weg zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit: Weniger persönliche Details preiszugeben und alternative Adressen zu verwenden.

Erstellung mehrerer E-Mail-Adressen für verschiedene Lebensbereiche zur erhöhten Sicherheit und Privatsphäre.

Verwendung des Tor-Webbrowsers zur Anonymisierung der IP-Adresse und zum Verhindern der Identifizierung.

Erklärung des End-to-End-Verschlüsselungsverfahrens von Tor und des sogenannten Onion-Routing.

Nutzung verschlüsselter Nachrichten-Apps wie Chat Secure, Signal und WhatsApp für匿名通信.

Einsatz von ProtonMail und Mailvelope zur Verschlüsselung von E-Mails.

Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zur vollen Unsichtbarkeit durch Behebung von Schwachstellen im Tor-Browser.

Verwendung von Proxies oder eigener Proxy-Server-Erstellung zur Verhinderung der Exit-Node-Problematik.

Empfohlenes Vorgehen zur Erreichung von Anonymität: Vermeidung von illegalen Aktivitäten und Einhaltung von Stufe 2 Anonymität.

Transcripts

[Music]

alright so

in this video i'm gonna show you

everything you need to know to become

truly

invisible online i'll explain which

tools you need and what they do

i'm gonna show you the three levels of

anonymity so that you get an idea of

where you wanna place yourself

and i think that pretty much everyone

should at least start to implement

level one anonymity and by the end of

this video you'll have a good

understanding of what it actually takes

to browse the web anonymously

so uh let's get started all right so

i've put timestamps in the description

in case you want to jump around to a

specific section that is of most

interest to you

but as always i recommend watching it in

the intended order since i put the video

together in that way for a reason so to

start off

uh the kind of anonymity that most

people are looking for

is actually sort of easy to get but it

won't be completely invisible

however being completely invisible is

something that is fairly useless to most

of us and is not actually what we're

looking for

the only reason that you would actually

need to be completely invisible

is if some sort of like government

agency pretty much

is trying to track you down like

actively looking for you

so i will still explain how to become

truly invisible but i just wanted to add

this in here so that you know that

for most of us there's no point in going

through

that much effort which is what it takes

to actually become truly invisible if

you just want to hide then that's

actually pretty easy to do because

hiding online essentially just comes

down to trying to leave as few tracks

behind as possible

and also scattering those tracks as far

apart as possible so that it becomes

really difficult to actually track down

who you are or where you're at i think

that there's a major misconception when

it comes to what most people think that

google and facebook and all of these

companies do when it comes to tracking

us

they track what you allow them to track

and the most part of that

are things that you actually give to

them freely

you store your photos on google cloud

you send imessages you create profiles

with your name and add your friends on

facebook

bookmark websites on chrome follow the

people and products that you like on

instagram

give out your home address to amazon

most of the things that are being

tracked about us are actually things

that we've given out freely

and consciously there are sometimes

things that we give out without knowing

because we didn't read the long ass form

before hitting accept

but most of it would give out

consciously and even if we're not

consciously aware or we didn't think of

the fact that this can later on be used

to track us

so therefore the first step to becoming

invisible online is to stop handing out

these flyers of personal information

stop giving them things that can be used

to track you so now let's get into the

three levels of anonymity online and

let's start with the level that i think

everyone should start implementing level

one becoming hard to hack

becoming hard to hack is what i consider

the base step that i think everyone

should take

so here are the three steps to becoming

harder to hack and don't worry because

i'll go through each of them

in detail number one create strong

passwords

number two always give out minimum

personal information to the sites that

you visit

number three create multiple emails okay

so let's start with number one

creating strong passwords so a long

password is a strong password so

i would suggest using something like 25

characters or more for every password

and i know that this is a lot for most

people

but computers today have become a lot

faster and that means that shorter

passwords are way easier to crack

so the best way to protect against that

is to create long

and complex passwords the problem with

long

and complex is that most of us humans

really struggle

with remembering like a really long

sequence of randomized

letters and numbers and symbols and so

the way that we solve that is to

essentially come up with something that

we can remember

and that would be something like a

sentence that you remember really well

or that you know really well

or a phrase of some kind or just a song

lyric for instance that's something that

a lot of people use

and then what you do is you create a

rule set of some kind that you make up

for yourself

and that rule set you use to change this

phrase in some sort of way

a super common one that you should

absolutely not use

is to replace specific letters with

numbers that look like the letters

so 4 means a 3 means e

7 means t etc this is good but everyone

pretty much knows this thing so

don't use that but what you should do is

you should do something similar but

create a rule that's

a lot more random than that one maybe

replace every i with the percentage

symbol

so you start off by writing down a song

lyric or a sentence of some kind

that is easy for you to remember then

you start replacing

letters for symbols maybe even

combinations of symbols

so an a might actually turn into a

an and sign and a curly brace and an

equal sign now not only does that add a

couple extra characters to your password

but it also adds a ton of complexity

while at the same time being easy for

you to remember

and this or what you would be doing here

is actually a form of encryption

you're constructing your own rules for

an encryption algorithm because

that's pretty much all that an

encryption algorithm does

it takes some sort of input and then it

does certain things to that input

based on certain rules and out comes

gibberish

this is an oversimplified version of

that however it is a great way to create

your own passwords

but make sure that you write down your

rules somewhere so now we have a strong

password but we need to be able to store

this somewhere

most of us will use a note on our phone

or add in new contacts for each password

which is not very safe but i know that

most of you guys will still continue

doing

this so here's a way to do that and make

it a little bit more secure

if you use the system for creating a

password that i outlined before where

you basically replace

certain characters of the password for

different things

then what you could do is you could

actually store the password

as it is before you actually change

those things that way even if someone

finds your list of passwords they're

unlikely to get into your accounts

but you can make it even safer than that

you can actually create rules

for storing your passwords as well let's

say that when you write down a password

in your notes you always divide the

numbers in that password by two

or if you use a song lyric or sentence

that you like

then you may not need to store the

entire sentence if your password is

based

on the song it's the final countdown

then maybe you don't need to store

the entire sentence you might only need

to store it's

the final or countdown or if it's i like

big butts and i cannot lie

you might only need to write down i like

bots but do keep in mind that if your

password is based on a really famous

song then

that actually makes it a little bit

easier for a hacker to actually crack

your password

because the way that a hacker cracks a

password is by utilizing something

called word lists

these are lists with thousands if not

millions of the most common passwords

so the program basically runs through

all the words or passwords in that list

and combines them in different ways to

speed up the password cracking

and i believe that common song lyrics

are often in these sort of lists

the better way to do all of this is

actually to use a password manager

because a password manager will take

care of not only creating

a lot more random passwords but it will

also take care of remembering

those passwords for you as well or

storing them for most people i would

recommend using something like dashlane

and they're not paying me to say this

even though they probably should

so i can also say that dashlane is not

foolproof but

it is what most people actually are

looking for and there are also other

ones out there like lastpass

and lots of other things but i haven't

used any of them so i can't really

recommend them

if you want something a little bit more

secure than that then you can find an

open source password manager like

keepass for instance

the benefit with open source can be that

lots of people can see how keepass was

built

so hopefully that means that potential

bugs get fixed compared to something

like dashlane where we can't actually

see how it was built and

so there could be some sort of

vulnerability within their system that

just hasn't been detected yet

the ultimate would be to build your own

password manager and store that on a usb

stick that way it's very unlikely that

someone else will find your passwords

and even if they do find that usb stick

they still need to get

into your password manager which you've

hopefully made really difficult

but also that means that you need to

plug in that usb stick anytime you need

to log in somewhere and this is kind of

the theme for this whole video

it's that you usually end up trading

convenience for security and anonymity

and usually the more secure and

anonymous something is the more

effort it takes to actually use it so

that's all you need to know about

creating and storing really secure

passwords

so now let's move on to the next step of

level one anonymity which is to stop

giving out personal details to everyone

if you buy something online then you may

not actually need to enter in

all the details accurately for instance

my

favorite life hack here is to actually

enter in your

local postal pickup point as your home

address

so anytime you buy something online then

just enter in their address into the

address field

your thing will get shipped to them and

the company you bought it from

doesn't have your home address the other

part to this is to just keep in mind

that

everything that you enter into any form

online

can be used to like identify or track

you when you create passwords for

certain accounts sometimes they ask you

to answer

some security questions in case you ever

need to reset your password if they do

that then you don't need to answer those

questions

accurately you can actually make it up

as long as you remember the answers

if they ask where you were born you can

answer jupiter as long as you remember

the answer it will work

so this step also ties into the next

step of level 1 anonymity

which is to create multiple email

addresses and this is something that

may not feel like it would be something

that you want to do

but i highly recommend doing it the way

you would do it is that you can create

emails for different parts of your life

maybe one for shopping one for business

or work

one for social media and one for

personal stuff like friends and family

this both increases your online security

and your privacy

if one of these emails gets hacked then

all your stuff doesn't get hacked

in hacking or cyber security they often

talk about

single points of failure and that you

want to avoid that

you want to avoid having one single

email address that is connected to

everything

because if you do then someone who hacks

that email has

access to everything this may seem a

little bit extreme or a bit too much

effort but it doesn't need to be that

much

you can create super simple names like

jonsnowshopping

gmail.com that could be your shopping

email and then you can do the same thing

for everything else as well

and that actually makes things a little

bit more organized too

if you ever need to find an email from

that purchase that you made a couple

months back

then you don't need to search through

all of your emails from that time period

but you only need to search through the

account related to shopping

i highly recommend doing this and it

also means that you'll get

less spam for your personal email all

right so when it comes to learning these

sort of things that i do

for making these sort of videos

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okay so that's level one become hard to

hack

now let's get to the next level level

two

become hard to track however the first

part to this is not difficult

and this is also what will give you the

anonymity that most people are actually

looking for this is to use the tor web

browser to understand why tor

is better than chrome for browsing the

web anonymously

we first need to understand what can be

used to identify you on the web now this

could be an entire book so i'm just

going to explain what i think are the

most important points that you need to

understand

so first off there's lots of things that

can be used on the web to identify

who you are or where you are and the

main one being your ip address

which is very accurately named because

your ip

address is a unique address that is

associated with your device on the web

okay so you may not think that there's

much correlation between a postal office

and the web

but the web actually operates a lot like

a postal office

if you want to watch a youtube video

then youtube needs to send that video to

you

so youtube needs some way of knowing

where to send it

so you need to have some sort of address

that is unique to you so that the video

will get to the right place

same as a letter in the mail but if you

don't want the postal office to know

your address then you can give them an

address of someone else that you know

or the address to a postal box somewhere

that you have access to

meaning you basically hide your address

which is what you want to do if you want

to browse the web anonymously you want

to hide your ip address

you may have heard of vpns and they

basically do what i explained that you

could do

with the post office they're basically

another address that you can send mail

to they then forward that mail via their

own service

to your home address meaning that they

know your home address

so using a vpn will actually hide you

somewhat from the place that you're

trying to connect to

but it won't make you disappear in order

to disappear you need to actually have

your ip address disappear or to change

this is where the tor web browser comes

in what tor does

is it randomizes your ip address so that

it looks like you're someone else

somewhere else your ip address becomes

virtually invisible not entirely but

extremely close

and again i will explain how to become

entirely invisible

later on in the video in level 3

anonymity tor also uses

end-to-end encryption meaning that it

will encrypt every request you send

it also encrypts your data multiple

times

so you can think of that as layers of an

onion

each time they encrypt your information

another layer is added to the onion

this is why this method is referred to

as onion routing

and it also makes it virtually

untraceable

so for most of us looking to browse the

web anonymously

tor will do what we need the second step

to level two anonymity is to use

encrypted messaging

apps like chat secure and signal are

the most commonly used ones and the ones

that are considered the most

anonymous there's also whatsapp that

uses end-to-end encryption

but it's owned by facebook so there is

some debate

as to whether or like how safe it

actually is you also need to activate

this feature for each chat

and the person or persons that you're

chatting to also needs to enable it

the idea for increased anonymity is

essentially just

to use more encryption usually the more

encrypted something is

the more anonymous it becomes so look

for apps that allow for end-to-end

encryption for messaging

emailing and phone calls for emailing

protonmail is one choice of service that

you can use

you can also use something like

mailvelope which is something that you

can use

in combination with your regular email

provider to encrypt your emails

and ideally you would use these two in

combination with the tor web browser so

now we're getting closer to becoming

completely invisible

now you know how to achieve level one

anonymity and level two anonymity

you're hard to hack and you're hard to

track so now let's take this to the next

level in

every sense of that word level three

total invisibility all right so this is

going to escalate

really quickly and that is because it's

fairly easy to become

almost invisible but to disappear

entirely without a trace

is it takes a lot of effort and so let

me explain how it can be done so your ip

address can be used to track you down

but there are other things that can be

used as well

like the device that you're using the

operating system or the wi-fi

or internet that you are connected to

your internet service provider or isp

screen size and even resolution all of

these things can be used to different

effectiveness to

try to build up an idea of who you are

and where you are

so if we want to become completely

invisible then we need to account for

all of these things

so here's how to do that so firstly

we're going to address the tiny

vulnerability in the tor web browser

that could potentially expose who you

are or where you're at

and this is known as the exit node

problem so if you remember earlier i

explained that tor

randomizes your ip address and this is

done using nodes

which are essentially routers all over

the world so

when you connect to a website via tor it

will encrypt your request

and send it through several randomly

selected nodes on the tor network

and then finally it will arrive at the

website that you connected to

everything is encrypted and safe all the

way until we reach what is called the

exit node

which is essentially the last router

before we get to the website

at this stage the request is decrypted

and sent in plain text so that you can

actually access the site

so the problem here is that the person

who controls the exit node could

potentially

figure out who sent the request and if

they do that then you're no longer

anonymous

especially not if you're using your home

computer there are a few options for

protecting against this

the first one is to use what is called a

proxy you can think of a proxy as

essentially a computer that is somewhere

else

so what you could do then is that you

could connect to this proxy or

computer remotely and then you could

access tor

via that proxy and then the exit node

doesn't know about your details it only

knows

about the proxy's details the problem

with proxies is that

you might not actually be able to trust

them since you might not be the person

that actually controls the proxy

and so the way to solve this is to

either become the proxy

or to create your own proxy and both of

these are possible

and they both have different advantages

and disadvantages

so let's start with actually creating

your own proxy this essentially just

means that you need to set

up a computer somewhere that has

internet connection and that is always

on

one way that this could work in theory

is to connect a raspberry pi to a public

wi-fi somewhere and then hide it

somewhere there

so as you can tell we're getting to some

really next level

things right now but the idea is that

you buy a raspberry pi using cash

somewhere and then you set it up so that

you can access it remotely

then you go to starbucks or somewhere

where there's a public wi-fi that you

can connect to

and you basically leave the raspberry pi

there if you hide it thoroughly

then it will be there for longer and now

you can connect to your own proxy server

from home that you actually control

and you can browse the web using tor and

you will be invisible when you browse

the other option here is to become the

proxy and this is high effort

but it's definitely doable to do this

you need to do a couple of things you

first need to buy a

laptop somewhere using cash so that it

can't be traced back to you

and then you need to never turn that

computer on anywhere near your home

only turn it on when you're away or

quite far away from your home

so this essentially becomes a useless

computer

you can only use it in public places or

at least in places with public wi-fi

and this means that even if you connect

to a compromised exit node

nothing can be traced back to you since

even if we get to your ip address

there will be no record of who bought it

and you are in a starbucks

so we also cannot figure out where you

live however if we're getting this far

into it then we have to assume that

someone is determined and looking to

actually get you

which means that we need to be

considering things like actually

surveillance footage or

security cameras and so the way to avoid

that is essentially to hide your face in

some sort of way for these cameras

and right now this is actually a pretty

good time because right now

face masks are actually socially

acceptable because of the

thing that's going on and so therefore

what you could do is you could just put

on a face mask put up a hoodie

and that way you'd actually be able to

hide yourself fairly well from

surveillance footage it'd be really

difficult to actually figure out who you

are from

that we can solve the problem of

security cameras in other ways

mainly by buying a prepaid burner phone

or a 4g

internet modem that you can use to

connect to the internet

what you do here is again wear a face

mask along with a hoodie

and you become almost unrecognizable

then you go into a store and you pay

with cash to get a phone with a prepaid

sim card that has

data i would recommend getting a phone

over a 4g

internet modem because with a phone you

actually get a phone number and this

phone number can then be used to set up

an anonymous email with gmail you can

actually use gmail anonymously

but you would need to take all of these

previous precautions

burner phone and basically a burner

laptop because when you sign up for

gmail you need a phone number to verify

your account

so for that you can use your new

anonymous phone number

and voila you now have an anonymous

gmail account

now of course you need to make sure that

you never search for things that can be

related to you

in any sort of way and you also need to

make sure that you again never turn them

on inside your home or anywhere close to

your home

and ideally that you also turn them on

only in randomized spots so that you

keep

randomizing where you turn it on if you

always turn them on and use them at the

same starbucks

three streets down from your home then

your location is now a lot more easy to

track

we can narrow it down to somewhere near

this place

if you look up the weather that can also

be used to figure out your

location if you ever enter in some sort

of personal

information into any form of search that

you do

then you're compromised so i'm guessing

at this point that most of you

realize that this sort of anonymity is

not really feasible for most of us

it's just too much effort to actually

maintain and too little reward

and so i would say that unless you're

doing something illegal

then level two anonymity is really where

you wanna be at

and maybe even slightly less than level

two because becoming truly invisible is

really hard work and most of us really

don't need

true invisibility so yeah that's it for

this one i hope you enjoyed it and that

you learned something about this

and how to browse the web anonymously i

will leave links to

all the things that are mentioned and

also some resources

like the art of invisibility by kevin

mitnick which was a huge help for making

this video

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