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I em a pentester and I wanted to know what to you think about untraceable hackers. They can use TOR ,OTR,VPN NO LOGS,COMPROMISED PC AS A PROXY-BOTNET PROXY,CHANGE MAC,EDIT LOGS,AND all of that ,but are the 100 untraceable tell me and if you got a better idea of a untraceable hacker ?

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It appears that you are listing a bunch of mechanisms which can be used to anonymize a user and are asking if it truly makes them 100% untraceable or if there are other ways to be untraceable? Is this correct? It's still a bit broad. It might be better served as two questions. One focusing on how to try to determine who an anonymized user is and another about best practices in maintaining anonymity. – AJ Henderson Jan 8 at 21:26

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Security is all about balance, most of the techniques you mentioned provide pretty decent anonymity, but there are also counters to a lot of them if someone is specifically trying to find you. Misbehaving TOR end nodes can give away some information, a botnet may be traced back to the command and control, no logs make it more difficult to tell after the fact, but have no impact on a live connection and logs and timing may allow a lack of logs to be worked around.

Almost nothing is perfect when it comes to anonymity on the Internet, but practically many things are pretty good. Ultimately, jurisdictional boundaries are the biggest anonymizer as it is unlikely that an ISP in the US is going to cooperate if North Korea asks them who was relaying off of one of their routers.

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