[tor-talk] using same usernames on same websites under tor and privacy -

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 15/08/2016, Jon Tullett <jon.tullett at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> Interesting discussion, I'll look forward to hearing peoples' views.
>
> Allowing correlation between multiple sites based on the same identity
> likely will reduce privacy, I assume, though the extent of that impact
> might be debatable. It'd make the risk assessment and the opsec more
> complicated and more error-prone respectively, but assuming you can
> overcome that, the impact might be negligible. I'm curious to know how
> you'd assess the risk, under those circumstances.
>
> Personally I don't see much overlap between communities, so I tend to
> use different pseudonyms on different sites and forums, but there's
> also very little risk to me if they were to be associated.  But I can
> well imagine the opposite - if I had an established identity and
> reputation like the Grugq or Moxie or something, then I'd want to
> achieve, if not conformity, then at least known association between
> identities on multiple forums within the same community. And I'd
> definitely want to avoid impacting my privacy and anonymity. I would
> guess that achieving that might just be a question of abstracting the
> comms a bit. Use the same identity, but give it a separate email
> address and Tor connection, for example - that's a lot easier to
> manage now that we have separate circuits per browser tab, I imagine.
>
> Interesting topic, thanks!
>
> -J

A little backgrounder here so it makes more sense. As today is India's
Independence Day, I took the opportunity to share how people could get
on tor, see

 https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/the-road-to-tor/

Although the best would be to use Tails but for people who use a
regular distribution like Debian, it should help a bit.

I didn't actually know what advice I should give them and as can be
seen I just gave a one-liner to say people should have new identities.

Although I myself haven't had to make that choice as frankly I'm not
in a situation that I need to fear for my life where association could
make put your life in danger.

I do however, understand the importance that more people being on tor
would help, so it is a small step in that regard. I also do understand
the importance of bridges and relays but then the blog post became a
bit too long and would have been a classic case of information
overload.

I also did try the videos at
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTorProject/videos and especially
videos of Georg Koppen and Philipp Winter but didn't get them as the
accent threw me off :( .

I tried the youtube subs but they weren't any better as well but that
is probably a different thing altogether.

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