It’s already impossible to be anonymous on the internet. Our governments just want it to be cheaper and easier to track us, so they can scare us and oppress us if they want to. Also, billionaires want to sell us more crap we don’t want or need, and use their bots to keep us divided and ignoring how much they’re stealing from all of us, all of which is easier if they know exactly who we are and what we’re doing at all times.
But, you know, no lengths are too far because it’s “for the children”. We all know how much our governments and billionaires care about our children.
Governments are working against that too. Here in Brazil you can buy a pre-paid SIM card without showing any ID, sure, but when you insert it into a phone it won’t work nor receive any data unless you first input your personal ID and register it to the network, thus ensuring a valid ID is tied to every SIM card.
It is extremely difficult and way beyond the capabilities of 99% of the human population.
And you know what? That is way more than they need.
At those numbers, if you think you’re anonymous, then you are kidding yourself- you become the single glaring hole in the puzzle, and it becomes even easier to detect you, specifically because of the glaring You shaped hole you create traversing digital space.
Unless you’re extremely qualified, supremely attentive, and use nothing but the most psycho anon hardware, they got your ass.
Even then- everything you ever did before that is logged in a databank.
When they need that data, if you ever become a problem or a target, your file is on record and available at the press of a button.
If you are on the electric grid, you’re known. Period.
That said, everyone should do everything they can to hide themselves. At this point it is a matter of making it as hard as possible for “them”. True anonymity is a pipe dream. But you can make it a hassle.
Think of it this way- why do you lock your door if you know that thieves could easily bypass it using lockpicks, or a crowbar for that matter?
To make yourself the harder target, to waste their time, to make them waste resources investing in more advanced penetration methods.
If they really want you, no lock will keep them out.
Doesn’t mean you leave your door wide open and put cookies and milk on the threshold.
It’s already impossible to be anonymous on the internet. Our governments just want it to be cheaper and easier to track us, so they can scare us and oppress us if they want to. Also, billionaires want to sell us more crap we don’t want or need, and use their bots to keep us divided and ignoring how much they’re stealing from all of us, all of which is easier if they know exactly who we are and what we’re doing at all times.
But, you know, no lengths are too far because it’s “for the children”. We all know how much our governments and billionaires care about our children.
SIM card registration is global. I have been to dozens of dozens of countries. You want a phone number? A dataplan?
PASSPORT PLEASE!
It is FUCKED how quick that happened, and that everyone is like laa dee daa about it.
I’ve head in some small shops you can still get sim cards without id (“oh I forgot it at home” …)
Governments are working against that too. Here in Brazil you can buy a pre-paid SIM card without showing any ID, sure, but when you insert it into a phone it won’t work nor receive any data unless you first input your personal ID and register it to the network, thus ensuring a valid ID is tied to every SIM card.
Sure it is. It’s just about effort vs benefit.
I’m a security technician.
It is extremely difficult and way beyond the capabilities of 99% of the human population.
And you know what? That is way more than they need.
At those numbers, if you think you’re anonymous, then you are kidding yourself- you become the single glaring hole in the puzzle, and it becomes even easier to detect you, specifically because of the glaring You shaped hole you create traversing digital space.
Unless you’re extremely qualified, supremely attentive, and use nothing but the most psycho anon hardware, they got your ass.
Even then- everything you ever did before that is logged in a databank.
When they need that data, if you ever become a problem or a target, your file is on record and available at the press of a button.
If you are on the electric grid, you’re known. Period.
Yeah, if you’re selling corporate secrets and threatening the oligarchy on the dark web, the full force of the US government will find you.
If your shitposting on truth social, or coordinating some protests, they don’t have the resources to hunt that down.
Cyber warfare is like regular warfare. They don’t have the resources to just drop a nuke on every battlefield.
That said, everyone should do everything they can to hide themselves. At this point it is a matter of making it as hard as possible for “them”. True anonymity is a pipe dream. But you can make it a hassle.
Think of it this way- why do you lock your door if you know that thieves could easily bypass it using lockpicks, or a crowbar for that matter?
To make yourself the harder target, to waste their time, to make them waste resources investing in more advanced penetration methods.
If they really want you, no lock will keep them out.
Doesn’t mean you leave your door wide open and put cookies and milk on the threshold.
Also get a fucking gun.