Remember, you're likely not as anonymous as you think you are online.

[Molan]

the law only needs an IP# and they can figure out the rest pretty quickly.
if you're savvy enough to chain several anonymous proxies through countries that aren't exactly USA friendly then you may have a chance of staying undercover.

What about spoofing your MAC address, as well?

 

[Molan]

The best way to stay anonymous is to use public computers where you don't need to sign in or anything, like a lot of campuses have.

Except with those there are usually some kind of video surveillance which can be used to corroborate your prescence at that source location...

 

[dennishoddy]

No one knows my real name.

Yeah, I'm anonamous like that too.

 

[Old Fart]

I know all of you. I'm sharing it with everyone. Your all going down, not just me.

 

[snipes]

What about spoofing your MAC address, as well?

very true

 

[Lightsluvr]

I've seen how much info can be gathered by plain old info-security guys working in a corporate environment, I can only imagine what the OSBI could scrounge up with their resources. I think anonymity on the internet is mostly non-existent. Most of us are anonymous because no one particularly cares what we have to say, but when certain people take an interest... that anonymity can disappear quickly.

Heck, the mods on any forum can pretty much pin-point where you live by your IP and e-mail address. Sure you can log on from a MacDonalds or Starbucks, but I bet 90% of the guys here registered and log-in from their work or home. Piece of cake.

LL

 

[JacobDaddy]

The best way to stay anonymous is to use public computers where you don't need to sign in or anything, like a lot of campuses have.

As a person that manages labs of computers with anonymous access used across many campuses I usually have a pretty good idea of who is using any particular computer. People have behavior patterns that can be easily noted. People tend to use the same computers and as soon as you log into your Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Flickr/Google+, etc you can be pinpointed. If you think that the largest ISP in Oklahoma is not logging your activity you are mistaken. They may not be able to track what you did on each site but they have a history of what sites you visited in what order. I have witnessed subpoena's come into an ISP for a particular IP address at a date/time. Within a couple of minutes I was able to see what account was associated with that IP address on the given date/time.

I am not trying to scare anybody just be aware that the places you go CAN be tracked and be done so retroactively. 99.9% of us have nothing to hide. As far as Tor project, mac spoofing, proxy servers and IPSEC tunnels to VPN Servers it will slow down the authorities but will not stop them completely. They have their ways of peeling back the layers of the internet.

 

[Wild Weasel]

Nothing to hide nothing to worry about

 

[snipes]

As a person that manages labs of computers with anonymous access used across many campuses I usually have a pretty good idea of who is using any particular computer. People have behavior patterns that can be easily noted. People tend to use the same computers and as soon as you log into your Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Flickr/Google+, etc you can be pinpointed. If you think that the largest ISP in Oklahoma is not logging your activity you are mistaken. They may not be able to track what you did on each site but they have a history of what sites you visited in what order. I have witnessed subpoena's come into an ISP for a particular IP address at a date/time. Within a couple of minutes I was able to see what account was associated with that IP address on the given date/time.

I am not trying to scare anybody just be aware that the places you go CAN be tracked and be done so retroactively. 99.9% of us have nothing to hide. As far as Tor project, mac spoofing, proxy servers and IPSEC tunnels to VPN Servers it will slow down the authorities but will not stop them completely. They have their ways of peeling back the layers of the internet.

the way I've always looked at it, just depends on how bad they wanna know.

 

[poopgiggle]

If you don't want people to be able to track you then don't post stuff on the Internet. There's all kinds of information that you wouldn't even think about; check out the Panopticlick project to see some of the uniquely identifiable information that your web browser is giving away that you probably never thought of.

Even if you go all secret squirrel and randomly hop between Internet cafes and public libraries, you can still be uniquely identified by things like the structure of your social graph.

You'll just have to take comfort in the fact that you are not important enough for a smart person to care about stalking you. Just make sure to clear your browser cookies after watching porn so that your wife doesn't kick your ass and call it good.

What about spoofing your MAC address, as well?

very true

How would someone outside of your LAN see your MAC address?