Questions tagged [deanonymization]
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Is changing pitch enough for anonymizing a person's voice?
In every TV program where there's a person that wants to remain anonymous, they change their voice in a way that to me sounds like a simple increase or decrease in pitch (frequencies). What I'm ...
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What is the relationship between cookies and anonymity?
If you are using a vpn for anonymity you can allow cookies when you surf the internet but you must delete them once you close the browser to get complete anonymity. Is this correct?
Or is it that ...
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Anonymizing IP addresses using (sha) hashes; how to circumvent rainbow table attacks?
Under GDPR, IP addresses are personal data. I have no need to trace back IP to specific users, but I would like to limit downloads to one per IP.* I do not want to store plain IPs.
My first solution ...
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Attacks on decentralised networks by running a fleet of nodes with modified software
At least some decentralised networks purported to provide anonymity are vulnerable to this attack: the original software is modified to allow tracking/logging/whatever, and a large amount of nodes ...
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Why it bothers if someone can de-anonymize anonymous network (like Tor)?
So we all know that NSA has the ability to track down Tor, I2P and all those anonymous networks. I know it's a piece of old news, but the question always shows up in my mind. Which is why bother it? I ...
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Stopping “phone home” applications in VM with TBB
I have a VM with Linux and the TBB installed on it. What I am trying to do is to make sure that other applications like for example operating system applications cannot "phone home" while I am using ...
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GDPR data minimisation session cookies
I have a research study being run. Participants are asked to;
Fill out a consent form (contains personal information as per GDPR)
Complete a questionnaire.
My hopes was that the questionnaire ...
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Does accessing a personally owned Tor node (that only you ever visit) over the Tor network break anonymity?
Does accessing a personally owned Tor node (that only you ever visit) over the Tor network break anonymity?
I read from a long guide by Whonix on how to properly use Tor that I shouldn't ever access ...
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Do VPNs have upstream ISPs that log traffic (making VPN claims of having strict no-log policies pointless)? [duplicate]
Most VPNs claim to adhere to a strict no-log policy, but these claims are typically unproven and/or even downright false. For instance, if the VPN says they collect absolutely no logs, how will they ...
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Deanonimizing VPN/tor traffic [duplicate]
What a VPN does is take the encrypted traffic from the client, decrypt it and forward it to the server, while tor bounces the traffic in multiple nodes decrypting a layer at each node.
I have some ...
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Can you serve up special content to an end-user based on IP or other identifiable data?
Is it possible to serve up specific content to an end-user? For example, I know your IP address, and other device information. Can I use that to serve up certain search results on a search engine, ...
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Identify anonymous mobile phone user by network participants
I have wondered this for quite some time but have not found any references. In the TV series "The wire" they use disposable prepaid mobile phones as a counter-surveillance technique. However if ...
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Are VPN users identifiable by matching their connection to the VPN server?
Given a nation-state has full access to the logs of the ISPs operating on its territory and given it knows that a certain activity has been conducted by a user from its territory, can they do the ...
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are some IP whois capable of going beyond proxies?
I received a suspicious email (suspicious body) coming from a legit person.
The headers always show the legit adress as if the person in question has been hacked.
But I wanted to go further and ...
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Does the dark web server actually part of surface web?
The dark web is like a lair for hackers/criminals/etc. But has anyone, like the FBI or CIA ever found the main server of the dark web? Where is the main server located? I thought all Internet data ...
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Accessing over a VPN both sites that know your real identity and sites you want to stay private from
Goal 1: access certain "anonymous" sites that you don't want to provide your real identity, IP or location to.
Goal 2: access "regular" sites that do require or have your real identity, such as your ...
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What category of anonymity do onion routing and blockchains afford?
My understanding is that a strict definition of anonymity means that defeating the security mechanism is logically impossible or mathematically infeasible, and therefore so is deducing the identity. (...
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Break anonymity in a Kippo honeypot
I've installed a Kippo honeypot on my server and I wanted to know if there are some tools I can launch to collect more information about the cracker.
I want more information to be able to start some ...
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How to release a safe anonymous social network graph (raw data)?
There are multiple papers published by Arvind and Vitaly (De-anonymising social network) and other papers about de-anonymising social networks. In short, they used a network graph to deanonymise an ...
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Deanonymising social networks
I've come across this paper about "De-anonymizing Social Networks". The goal is to use Flickr network to de-anonymise Twitter's anonymous network, but the experiment section doesn't seem to be right.
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How does tracking work? [closed]
Imagine I create a machine (laptop maybe) in which I don't use a browser, I just perfom an attack and use macchanger, VPN or maybe proxychains. And I'm on an open wifi network. The question is how do ...
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Tor Hidden Service In-Depth Questions
I've recently learned much more about Tor hidden service, thanks to this post, and its answers. But I am still wondering about a few small tid-bits...
As said in the linked post:
Q: If a hidden ...
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Few Questions About Tor Hidden Services
According to this, when you connect to a hidden service using tor you go through 6 nodes instead of 3... why?
From what I understand when you connect to a website that is not a hidden service you ...
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GPS working and anonymity
Does gps make any log, which is store in there positioning system ?
Even if gps is off in our smart phone and we don't have any sim card in it and our internet is off too still is their any chance to ...
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How can intelligence services be so sure that Russia is the culprit? [closed]
Recently,
US and non-US media has been publishing many articles regarding Russia being involved in the "Podesta-hack" or even accusing Putin of being directly responsible.
For example:
"Putin ...
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How many ways are out there to know IP of client from website?
If we are behind a VPN, then in how many ways we can try to find the ip address of the client? here are some that i know
- Torrents (most people say torrent expose real IP)
- Javascript (but how can ...
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Deanonymizing Tor circuit by having access to all the circuit's relays
Given you have access to THE NETWORKING (not the devices, just their networking, as if you were their ISP) of all the 3 relays that a circuit is using, could you time-correlate all the nodes of the ...
