Greetings to all, I decided to sketch out a small article on security, since I did not find a detailed article on the forums. So I decided to write my own.
Network security implies the following: when you mention your nickname, everyone had some pieces of information on you, and so that when everyone who has these pieces is put together, they get the whole picture. Only this picture will have nothing to do with you. Next, I will write in detail.
The first and most important thing to keep safe is your imagination. You won't be safe without it.
First, we need the site vkontakte.ru. We buy an account from someone for $ 0.5, and turn on the search by people. Find yourself a person and download his pictures, the more the better.
Next, we register our profile, and fill in all the data, namely school, hobbies, and so on. What should I write there? Which doesn't look like you at all. Don't like horses? Write that you just adore horses. Write that your favorite films are Brokeback Mountain and Twilight (do you really like other films?). Create yourself a second self. In real life, you can be anyone, but it is on the Internet that you will be a completely different person.
The second is choosing a VPN. One can argue for a long time whose VPN is safer and whose VPN is worse. The main thing to remember is that the VPN changes every 3 days. Register in 3-5 services, download certificates, and switch periodically. There are many services now, and the prices are really ridiculous - $ 30 per month is the maximum. $ 100 for such a case is not a pity.
The third is cellular communication. Often we have to call / write SMS to partners and those with whom we work. You can recommend using a SIM card for a drop, but that's not it. Buy a SIM card from another country. Do you live in RU? Buy a UA sim card, let everyone think you live in UA. And vice versa. This makes it difficult to establish your location.
Never call anyone. Voice identification is a feature, though for especially dangerous criminals, but who knows what will happen in the future? Maybe this technology will become very cheap, and someone will already have your vote. Therefore, ONLY SMS!
Never keep a SIM card in your phone. They sent an SMS - received an answer - they took out the battery and SIM card from the phone, and put them away. Let the paranoia, but the soul is calm.
Fourth - payment instruments. One way or another, we are expected to spend on the Internet, as well as the worst thing - the withdrawal of funds.
To begin with, how to deal with payment systems:
1. Bitcoin - everything is extremely clear here, VPN + Socks will be enough to work with this system, so you won't write anything special here. Register by the way on the data of your fictitious person, or better on the data that will be indicated in your webmoney, which you buy (if you need it).
2. WebMoney - well, it is clear that it is better to use light (although it is better not to use webmoney at all), also VPN + socks.
When entering these payment systems, it is also recommended to use different VPN services and socks. So that the entrance is recorded from different countries and IP addresses.
Now, using ATM cards and a SIM card for a WebMoney keeper - the seller will offer you to deliver them by train, and it is logical, it seems to be safe, but then he (and maybe special services) will know your approximate location. What is not good. Therefore, do not be lazy and slide to another city. For example, do you live in Samara? Ride to Moscow for 3-4 days or to St. Petersburg, see the sights, take a walk, and at the same time pick up the ATM and SIM card.
By SIM card - buy in the same place in Moscow / St. Petersburg or any other city a left mobile phone, and use it for this SIM card. Then the same operation - received an SMS - pulled out of the phone, take out the battery too.
Cashing is a problem here, too, there is an ATM card, you put money on it, and you go to the ATM to withdraw - this also allows you to establish the approximate city / place of your location. Therefore, I advise you to withdraw good amounts at once, and not a little bit, and do it in a city far from you. We went for a walk, took off the money, and returned back by plane. We combine business with pleasure and travel around our country and take money off safely. It's better to change cities too.
From time to time you will need to call the bank for any questions. Do not spare $ 5-15, and use the dialing services for this. Guys work - you safety.
Now the main thing is correspondence. Everything can go to hell if you don't follow your correspondence. Of course, cleaning history, PGP, and so on is cool. And this should not be neglected, but you need to watch what you write. One way or another, working with someone for a long time - you share news from your personal life. For example, you have a baby and you don’t deliberately share it with your partner. So, this is inevitable, but you can do it to your advantage. Lie, lie to everyone about yourself. On the forum, in correspondence, in SMS. Do you have a cat at home? Let your partner know that you have a dog. A boy was born? Partner / interlocutor - tell that you have a baby girl. So that when your interlocutor decides to compose your portrait, he will turn out to be an ordinary person - but not you.
Our social network account will also help us. Communicate, make friends with people. But lie to them, develop this skill. Create a second self and you will be safe.
And when you turn off your laptop, be yourself and just enjoy life.
I'll tell you an example from real life ...
In general, there was one little man. he owed money. he disappeared, lived under a different surname, and never fired. his only puncture was - he kept his old laptop for himself and went out from it to the network several times. and then the truth and he was replaced. In general, we calculated it quite simply. The setevukha's poppy address is logged at the dip level, these logs were raised. Then, having already paid who needs to calculate the exit points with this network card, we went to the first provider. The man no longer lived at that address, but another poppy address appeared, respectively, a new connection and a new physical address. The little man was found.
The searches were conducted NOT by the STATE, but by private individuals. the cost was 250k rubles to the right people.
about the highlights of your poppy: almost any shop burns your network card, read google for amazon + mac adress requests. So your safety is actually a very relative thing.
I think this example will help to rethink some things a little.
It is possible to find any person. Do you use vpn and your traffic is encrypted? So the traffic can be received at the exit and read everything. Each computer is unique and this uniqueness also helps in collecting information, at the same MAC address, worked under soks and VPN and got to the page in classmates, and upon request and search by MAC, they found your page, and then more. A serious IT specialist possesses such a set of skills that many mouths will reveal how thin the veil of security he has created) Do you really think that special services can conceal the commission of crimes by such a simple and accessible method as vpn, soks, deed, etc.) I do not understand rutting with with a split personality, it's probably easier not to say anything at all, but if you want to share something, what is the problem, call your parents or friends and tell them. Guys,
VPN is just one of the precautions, as part of an integrated approach to ensuring your own security (in the technical part).
The working computer must be completely "impersonal" (it must not be purchased or registered in the service in your name), with physical access to the Internet only via wireless technologies (registered in the left person or someone else's). Otherwise, all your attempts at serious safety are nothing more than profanation and self-deception, despite the quad VPN and similar tricks.
Going from a "working" machine to personal pages (or to the pages of friends from real life) in social networks, to their blozhiks, to write from a working ICQ to a childhood friend and the like is the height of idiocy and direct harm to oneself. It is better to add vkontakte and classmates to the firewall blacklists in general, in order to avoid accidental entry.
The work computer is used only for work, as well as work contacts.
For white cases, there is a separate PC, a separate Internet connection and, of course, other contacts. It is very desirable to have different nicknames for "white" and "dirty" cases.
If all of the above precautions are observed, then the punching according to the MAC is a dead number. Rather, they will look for clues in real life - they will try to burn them in cash, during the reception or sale of goods (for example), spending money earned (especially for large amounts).
There are many opportunities to complicate the work of the competent authorities. There are no omnipotent specialists. Tracking technologies and cybercrime detection techniques have their limits. Of course, if you yourself have inherited and left clues to them, you can only blame your own carelessness.
In the virtual should be exactly that a complete split personality.
In real life, everyone is different. Personally, I am a supporter of not talking about my activities, even to the closest people.
I will be glad to criticism, comments, as well as try to answer your questions.
Network security implies the following: when you mention your nickname, everyone had some pieces of information on you, and so that when everyone who has these pieces is put together, they get the whole picture. Only this picture will have nothing to do with you. Next, I will write in detail.
The first and most important thing to keep safe is your imagination. You won't be safe without it.
First, we need the site vkontakte.ru. We buy an account from someone for $ 0.5, and turn on the search by people. Find yourself a person and download his pictures, the more the better.
Next, we register our profile, and fill in all the data, namely school, hobbies, and so on. What should I write there? Which doesn't look like you at all. Don't like horses? Write that you just adore horses. Write that your favorite films are Brokeback Mountain and Twilight (do you really like other films?). Create yourself a second self. In real life, you can be anyone, but it is on the Internet that you will be a completely different person.
The second is choosing a VPN. One can argue for a long time whose VPN is safer and whose VPN is worse. The main thing to remember is that the VPN changes every 3 days. Register in 3-5 services, download certificates, and switch periodically. There are many services now, and the prices are really ridiculous - $ 30 per month is the maximum. $ 100 for such a case is not a pity.
The third is cellular communication. Often we have to call / write SMS to partners and those with whom we work. You can recommend using a SIM card for a drop, but that's not it. Buy a SIM card from another country. Do you live in RU? Buy a UA sim card, let everyone think you live in UA. And vice versa. This makes it difficult to establish your location.
Never call anyone. Voice identification is a feature, though for especially dangerous criminals, but who knows what will happen in the future? Maybe this technology will become very cheap, and someone will already have your vote. Therefore, ONLY SMS!
Never keep a SIM card in your phone. They sent an SMS - received an answer - they took out the battery and SIM card from the phone, and put them away. Let the paranoia, but the soul is calm.
Fourth - payment instruments. One way or another, we are expected to spend on the Internet, as well as the worst thing - the withdrawal of funds.
To begin with, how to deal with payment systems:
1. Bitcoin - everything is extremely clear here, VPN + Socks will be enough to work with this system, so you won't write anything special here. Register by the way on the data of your fictitious person, or better on the data that will be indicated in your webmoney, which you buy (if you need it).
2. WebMoney - well, it is clear that it is better to use light (although it is better not to use webmoney at all), also VPN + socks.
When entering these payment systems, it is also recommended to use different VPN services and socks. So that the entrance is recorded from different countries and IP addresses.
Now, using ATM cards and a SIM card for a WebMoney keeper - the seller will offer you to deliver them by train, and it is logical, it seems to be safe, but then he (and maybe special services) will know your approximate location. What is not good. Therefore, do not be lazy and slide to another city. For example, do you live in Samara? Ride to Moscow for 3-4 days or to St. Petersburg, see the sights, take a walk, and at the same time pick up the ATM and SIM card.
By SIM card - buy in the same place in Moscow / St. Petersburg or any other city a left mobile phone, and use it for this SIM card. Then the same operation - received an SMS - pulled out of the phone, take out the battery too.
Cashing is a problem here, too, there is an ATM card, you put money on it, and you go to the ATM to withdraw - this also allows you to establish the approximate city / place of your location. Therefore, I advise you to withdraw good amounts at once, and not a little bit, and do it in a city far from you. We went for a walk, took off the money, and returned back by plane. We combine business with pleasure and travel around our country and take money off safely. It's better to change cities too.
From time to time you will need to call the bank for any questions. Do not spare $ 5-15, and use the dialing services for this. Guys work - you safety.
Now the main thing is correspondence. Everything can go to hell if you don't follow your correspondence. Of course, cleaning history, PGP, and so on is cool. And this should not be neglected, but you need to watch what you write. One way or another, working with someone for a long time - you share news from your personal life. For example, you have a baby and you don’t deliberately share it with your partner. So, this is inevitable, but you can do it to your advantage. Lie, lie to everyone about yourself. On the forum, in correspondence, in SMS. Do you have a cat at home? Let your partner know that you have a dog. A boy was born? Partner / interlocutor - tell that you have a baby girl. So that when your interlocutor decides to compose your portrait, he will turn out to be an ordinary person - but not you.
Our social network account will also help us. Communicate, make friends with people. But lie to them, develop this skill. Create a second self and you will be safe.
And when you turn off your laptop, be yourself and just enjoy life.
I'll tell you an example from real life ...
In general, there was one little man. he owed money. he disappeared, lived under a different surname, and never fired. his only puncture was - he kept his old laptop for himself and went out from it to the network several times. and then the truth and he was replaced. In general, we calculated it quite simply. The setevukha's poppy address is logged at the dip level, these logs were raised. Then, having already paid who needs to calculate the exit points with this network card, we went to the first provider. The man no longer lived at that address, but another poppy address appeared, respectively, a new connection and a new physical address. The little man was found.
The searches were conducted NOT by the STATE, but by private individuals. the cost was 250k rubles to the right people.
about the highlights of your poppy: almost any shop burns your network card, read google for amazon + mac adress requests. So your safety is actually a very relative thing.
I think this example will help to rethink some things a little.
It is possible to find any person. Do you use vpn and your traffic is encrypted? So the traffic can be received at the exit and read everything. Each computer is unique and this uniqueness also helps in collecting information, at the same MAC address, worked under soks and VPN and got to the page in classmates, and upon request and search by MAC, they found your page, and then more. A serious IT specialist possesses such a set of skills that many mouths will reveal how thin the veil of security he has created) Do you really think that special services can conceal the commission of crimes by such a simple and accessible method as vpn, soks, deed, etc.) I do not understand rutting with with a split personality, it's probably easier not to say anything at all, but if you want to share something, what is the problem, call your parents or friends and tell them. Guys,
VPN is just one of the precautions, as part of an integrated approach to ensuring your own security (in the technical part).
The working computer must be completely "impersonal" (it must not be purchased or registered in the service in your name), with physical access to the Internet only via wireless technologies (registered in the left person or someone else's). Otherwise, all your attempts at serious safety are nothing more than profanation and self-deception, despite the quad VPN and similar tricks.
Going from a "working" machine to personal pages (or to the pages of friends from real life) in social networks, to their blozhiks, to write from a working ICQ to a childhood friend and the like is the height of idiocy and direct harm to oneself. It is better to add vkontakte and classmates to the firewall blacklists in general, in order to avoid accidental entry.
The work computer is used only for work, as well as work contacts.
For white cases, there is a separate PC, a separate Internet connection and, of course, other contacts. It is very desirable to have different nicknames for "white" and "dirty" cases.
If all of the above precautions are observed, then the punching according to the MAC is a dead number. Rather, they will look for clues in real life - they will try to burn them in cash, during the reception or sale of goods (for example), spending money earned (especially for large amounts).
There are many opportunities to complicate the work of the competent authorities. There are no omnipotent specialists. Tracking technologies and cybercrime detection techniques have their limits. Of course, if you yourself have inherited and left clues to them, you can only blame your own carelessness.
In the virtual should be exactly that a complete split personality.
In real life, everyone is different. Personally, I am a supporter of not talking about my activities, even to the closest people.
I will be glad to criticism, comments, as well as try to answer your questions.