How to be Invisible Online (and the hard truth about it)...

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  • Don't be fooled ... Occupy The Web (OTW) tells us the hard truth about being anonymous online. The brutal truth: Will using your neigbors wifi keep you anonymous? Can you hide from the NSA? Can you hide from Google and other companies? Will Tor help you? Will Proxy Chains help? Which phone do you need to use - Android or iPhone or something else? Which operating system - Windows, macOS or Linux? What is the truth? What do you need to use?
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    00:00 - Coming up
    00:51 - Don't use the nighbour's wifi
    03:02 - OccupyTheWeb books
    03:44 - How to remain anonymous on the internet // The NSA is watching
    09:56 - Be careful of your browser
    13:35 - Turn off cookies
    15:41 - ProxyChains and Tor demo
    22:10 - The FBI story
    25:30 - ProxyChains and Tor demo continued
    28:36 - How to remain anonymous
    33:05 - Using Starlink
    36:18 - Recommended operating systems
    38:34 - Untraceable phones (burner phones)
    40:05 - VPN vs Tor // Don't trust free proxies
    42:29 - Don't keep systems together
    44:24 - Recommended e-mail service
    46:53 - Bitcoin is traceable
    47:58 - Anti-forensics // How to clean systems
    50:41 - Recommended search engines
    51:34 - Have different identities/systems
    52:26 - Conclusion
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  • @davidbombal
    @davidbombal  ปีที่แล้ว +498

    Don't be fooled ... Occupy The Web (OTW) tells us the hard truth about being anonymous online. The brutal truth: Will using your neigbors wifi keep you anonymous? Can you hide from the NSA? Can you hide from Google and other companies? Will Tor help you? Will Proxy Chains help? Which phone do you need to use - Android or iPhone or something else? Which operating system - Windows, macOS or Linux? What is the truth? What do you need to use?
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    // MENU //
    00:00 - Coming up
    00:51 - Don't use the nighbour's wifi
    03:02 - OccupyTheWeb books
    03:44 - How to remain anonymous on the internet // The NSA is watching
    09:56 - Be careful of your browser
    13:35 - Turn off cookies
    15:41 - ProxyChains and Tor demo
    22:10 - The FBI story
    25:30 - ProxyChains and Tor demo continued
    28:36 - How to remain anonymous
    33:05 - Using Starlink
    36:18 - Recommended operating systems
    38:34 - Untraceable phones (burner phones)
    40:05 - VPN vs Tor // Don't trust free proxies
    42:29 - Don't keep systems together
    44:24 - Recommended e-mail service
    46:53 - Bitcoin is traceable
    47:58 - Anti-forensics // How to clean systems
    50:41 - Recommended search engines
    51:34 - Have different identities/systems
    52:26 - Conclusion

    • @Mr.Thinker-
      @Mr.Thinker- ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Pin your comment so it stays on top 👌🔝👀

    • @firosiam7786
      @firosiam7786 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Could u do an av and other evasion techniques with occupy the web

    • @crypto8951
      @crypto8951 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Best channel on youtube 💪💪💪💪

    • @MegaHax
      @MegaHax ปีที่แล้ว +10

      There is no secure browser or programs that can keep you anonymous if we continue to use the same communication protocols and ports 🥷

    • @keylanoslokj1806
      @keylanoslokj1806 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MegaHax elaborate

  • @kittenisageek
    @kittenisageek 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +601

    Over a decade ago I took a class in network security that was taught by a retired navy intelligence officer. One thing he taught us that has stuck was: "The only secure computer is one that is not connected and can not be physically accessed. Once a machine is accessible, it is no longer secure. The form of access doesn't matter -- physical access, network access, it all compromises the security of the machine. The line you will need to define in your future career is going to be the line between secure and accessible. A machine that can't be accessed can't be used, so while it is secure, it isn't useful. The more accessible a machine, the more usable it becomes -- and the less secure. The policies you write for your company are going to be a negotiation of that line between accessibility and security."

    • @DigitalNomadInvestor
      @DigitalNomadInvestor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "Air gapped"

    • @indiansmokar
      @indiansmokar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

      That’s a quite a bit of words you remember from a decade ago

    • @Bond2025
      @Bond2025 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      He wasn't aware of air-gap techniques used over 10yrs ago to communicate with any device via WiFi or Bluetooth. The device did not need to be connected to the Internet as whatever it was near could report the proximity.
      If you removed all RF devices and never plugged it in, you might find that people marked as targets would have to use something like USB storage to view files. Depending on the sites they were obtained from depends what was in them and what they did.
      Your off the shelf firewall will not help.
      The only decent firewall for stopping NSA and GCHQ was by Kaspersky, but they were also spying on you!

    • @linsqopiring6816
      @linsqopiring6816 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Bond2025
      Any sources or search terms for these air-gap techniques? Sounds fascinating.

    • @Soniic95
      @Soniic95 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      thats so true, just look how the sildroad dude got arrested, social engineering and boom, iirc he had a panic button on his laptop that would normaly brick it but he stand up and helped that woman ... crazy if you think abt it.

  • @seansingh4421
    @seansingh4421 ปีที่แล้ว +1437

    What I hate about the NSA the most is that they’re letting too many abusive cybercriminals get away with stuff these days but common people still have suffer online privacy issues.

    • @jonbrand5068
      @jonbrand5068 ปีที่แล้ว

      They no longer have eyes on good cyber criminals. So they bother the rest of us,

    • @jameswatkinsiii7834
      @jameswatkinsiii7834 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is by design, the constitution is a Joke to those people, they use it like a boy scout metal as they commit crimes.

    • @trippmoore
      @trippmoore ปีที่แล้ว

      And rich people can get away with not paying millions in taxes while you and me will get audited for not claiming $700 on our taxes. Best thing to do is accept it and adjust you actions accordingly. Unless you are born into that elite ultra-rich class of people you're screwed. Even if you cold earn or steal enough money to be considered one of the top tenth of a percent of the wealthy they would know you came from outside of their class and not going to be accepted into the club by your wealth alone. The one thing we have to get over the ultra-wealthy elites is something they are doing everything they can to disrupt is our numbers. If we could all just come together as one unified people against these elites then they could not stop us from taking them down. But that's not likely to happen is it? We are kept splintered into little antagonist factions at every level: Politics, race, gender, coke vs pepsi, you name it, the elites are behind all efforts to label us and wall us off from the one thing that is more important that those manufactured labels and unites us all into one massive collection is our status as human, non-elite. Or what I wold call human, if you allow me to consider the "elites" as non-human. They seem to lack humanity so I think it applies. Keep up the fight and don't let the bastards keep down my bother.

    • @ClassWarMatrix
      @ClassWarMatrix ปีที่แล้ว

      Reminds me of some lyrics from dude named Daylyt
      "Who all up on the deep web? My P.O. , yeah we know"
      Yk the british empire and its network of financial monopolists were the ones who invented global narco and human traffick.
      They been laundering money from all that sht before it was even illegal .
      You best bet their successors the globalists are profiting from and enabling all the criminal sht that goes on on the dark web .

    • @CynHicks
      @CynHicks ปีที่แล้ว +98

      😂
      That's what they want

  • @SecurityPrivacyAnonymity6394
    @SecurityPrivacyAnonymity6394 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +182

    My motivation to keep fighting for my privacy is that shit might not happen now, but in the future when my life is a lot more meaningful to me, they might also be a lot harder on how they control us. I hate being controlled, so I decide to learn and do now so I can be ghost later.

    • @LeeeerrrroooyJennnnnkins
      @LeeeerrrroooyJennnnnkins 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      1000%

    • @MatthewElvey
      @MatthewElvey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And this "guru" is not very smart. A lot of gaffes. @bulliontoy. Yup: Doesn't use filename completion. Doesn't know it's not necessarily a bug to not have a (public) IPv4 address when on TOR.

    • @fifski
      @fifski 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And how exactly are 'they' controlling you? By forcing you to do mainstream things like going to shop, or doctor, or work? 🤣

    • @patrickp8822
      @patrickp8822 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      ​@fifski exactly what a mind controlled person would say 😂

    • @Heavilous
      @Heavilous 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@LeeeerrrroooyJennnnnkins LEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYY HHHHHHHHUUUHHJAYYYYYYYYYNKINS

  • @USMColdies
    @USMColdies 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Absolutely love David's channel and wanted to add to the OPSEC recommendation of not carrying your personal phone with u to buy a burner- even more important than that caveat, one must NEVER carry around both your personal and burner phone with u at the same time. Any 3-letter or law enforcement agency can create a map of date & time where both your devices are pinging the same celltowers at the same time, thus tying u to the burner with circumstantial evidence. I like to think of the personal cell and burner as your wife and mistress, both should not know of each other much less be in the same place at the same time. And no, this wasn't a reference to infidelity...stay safe

    • @Si74l0rd
      @Si74l0rd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Yeah, and leave the burner on airplane mode unless you actively need to use it. IMSI catchers are deployed at most protests these days, if your phone isn't reaching out to cell towers it won't connect to a Stinger either.

  • @FunderDuck
    @FunderDuck ปีที่แล้ว +103

    “I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”
    - Banksy

  • @c-LAW
    @c-LAW 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Cookie is a a euphemistic rename of the word "tracker." Cookie = tracker.

  • @tjmarx
    @tjmarx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    This was stuff being talked about 3* decades ago in the early 90s. What is being described as anonymity here, is really pseudoanonymity. There is no such thing as actual anonymity online.
    I like to think of the internet as standing in a conceptual digital square wearing a name tag. You can put a disguise on and cover your name tag, but if someone really wants to know who you are, or someone who already knows you and is paying attention comes along your efforts are for nothing.
    You are more anonymous in real life than you are online. So if you're looking for privacy, the ultimate hack is to take offline and into the real world everything you can.

    • @askfaisalmuslim
      @askfaisalmuslim 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      30 decades ago, that is 300 years ago 😋

    • @zsmith4853
      @zsmith4853 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@askfaisalmuslim Nope.

    • @jettywetty9398
      @jettywetty9398 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Definitely 🖊

    • @rossbrunson5894
      @rossbrunson5894 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This is the truth

  • @APT4308
    @APT4308 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    Banger of an interview! We must have more OTW content David. Fulfill your destiny!

    • @davidbombal
      @davidbombal  ปีที่แล้ว +18

      lol... glad you enjoyed the video! Definitely want to get him back much more often!

    • @APT4308
      @APT4308 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@davidbombal thanks for what you do. Simply the best. you guys with OTW owe us an interview with a Ukrainian hacktivist that are defending their homeland from russian cyber invasion on top of kinetic invasion. You had an interview with a russian young dev. And this is not fair. Give Ukrainians a chance to speak out.

    • @davidbombal
      @davidbombal  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      OTW has spoken about Ukraine a lot in our interviews. Watch a few of the interviews with him like this one: th-cam.com/video/GudY7XYouRk/w-d-xo.html

    • @APT4308
      @APT4308 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@davidbombaloh trust me©️ we watched ALL your videos! Thanks for what you do again. Just would like to head one of many Ukrainian infosec experts from the trenches of World Cyber War 1. I think it will be a hot content. Just pinch it to him he can get someone to agree for the interview.

  • @JJ-sw8rm
    @JJ-sw8rm ปีที่แล้ว +229

    Much, MUCH appriciation to the both of you David. As a aspiring Cyber Engineer, it's like you guys answer all the little and big questions I think lol Thank you!

    • @KG-wd1uu
      @KG-wd1uu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know who the 'faceless ' man is - he is my neighbor 😭😭😭

    • @songbwae9521
      @songbwae9521 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dunno wtf a cyber engineer is supposed to be but heads up OTW is a clown

    • @puppergump4117
      @puppergump4117 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KG-wd1uu He must look dorky to you lol

    • @enriquehidalgo1540
      @enriquehidalgo1540 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      16:41 16:44 16:45 16:45

    • @zephyrr108
      @zephyrr108 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what the heck is a cyber engineer

  • @Picsio64
    @Picsio64 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    I usually can't sit through long videos but I have to say, listening to OTW kept my attention to the very end. David, you did a great job in allowing him to share his straight forward and easy to follow info on keeping safe online. You asked the right questions and summarized in a succinct manner. Excellent!

  • @ryanqvincent144
    @ryanqvincent144 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    What I like about this episode, apart from all the very useful suggestions, is the constant warnings about how how difficult it is to be 'hidden' online! This is so very true. The mention of of having multiple identities and completely different behaviors in the different identities is very important.
    Note: Having different identities for social media and emails is useful anyway to help protect you from 'trolls' and people who like to 'bully' you online.
    Thanks for sharing this it really is very useful information indeed. :)

    • @Neighborhoodcarpetcleaners
      @Neighborhoodcarpetcleaners 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now you abuse. Harassment on multiple identity

    • @ryanqvincent144
      @ryanqvincent144 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Neighborhoodcarpetcleaners You are confusing me with someone else. I only use this userid on YT and similar services. I only reply to people in comments. I don't like harassment or bullying done to me. I don't do it to others.
      Beware of the 'troll's. They user similar usernames to confuse real people. It is what they do.

    • @moshedayan9253
      @moshedayan9253 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      If you want ultimate PERSEC where you'll never be caught, then you start here: buy a laptop with a gift card or cash. Giftcard should only be bought with cash and a mask on. Also make sure you made it to the store untraced by any public recording cameras where it wouldn't see your face or a license plate perhaps.
      The laptop should be used with layers of encryption/VPN, and in a location far from your house. Once you have what you need, your files should be placed in an external harddrive outside the laptop. The laptop should be placed inside a faraday case and hidden away. The location you're at should also be untraced by any public cameras that could see your vehicle or face. But with the layers of encryption, it would take government hackers too long to trace the location. And by the time they do, you will have been gone for days.

    • @freedomisfromtruth
      @freedomisfromtruth 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@moshedayan9253 Just buy your hardware used, why go through all that crap with gift cards

  • @ronigbzjr
    @ronigbzjr ปีที่แล้ว +374

    I used to work in intelligence over ten years ago, and everything he says checks out. These are all things that were taught to us. I remember reading the public case file that came out after the Silk Road bust and learning that DPR used the same cafe every day to do his browsing and I was like "uhhh, classic mistake..."

    • @cybersavage1337
      @cybersavage1337 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is a lie. Police in the US don't go around knocking on everyone's doors just because someone in the area hacked from a nearby IP. No judge would be able to approve such a warrant.

    • @VideoCesar07
      @VideoCesar07 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      Yep. Unfortunately, people are creatures of habit. Unless you are willing to go completely off grid in the middle of nowhere and forego nearly all electronics it is nearly impossible to not be traced somehow today. Even if you go off grid I am sure any of the major government intelligence and law enforcement agencies will find you if they want to. Facial recognition still has a ways to go, that we know of, but with cameras everywhere these days who is to say they would find you just because you unknowingly walked by a web cam or came up on a picture someone took where you just happened to be in the background somewhere.

    • @criSOME1
      @criSOME1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe he stopped caring. There’s really nothing to hide from you megalomaniacs. It’s called freedom you fool

    • @Cubic_cat
      @Cubic_cat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think doing this is possible, you just need NOT TO sit in the cafe, you can just live in the city with a high population, craft a wifi cannon, decorate it so it looks not like wifi cannon, and here you go!

    • @The_rabbit_hole
      @The_rabbit_hole 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yeah I couldn't work out how he thought that was a good idea, especially when he went to extraordinary lengths to keep everything else hidden

  • @TheOriginalJohnDoe
    @TheOriginalJohnDoe ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Besides quality content, this really feels like a thriller podcast I'm watching. I absolutely love it.

  • @brettjamesy
    @brettjamesy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Another great video... The limitation of this technique, is not being able to use burpsuite for MITM and proxychains... However, adding a SOCKS TOR proxy to burpsuite, diverts outbound traffic through the TOR network... without proxychains

  • @steveraby6023
    @steveraby6023 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This episode has confirmed many of my suspicions and opened my eyes to a few more. Thank you for sharing some really good information. Great video from an awesome channel 👏

  • @MaxWinner
    @MaxWinner ปีที่แล้ว +18

    In the uk, a guy gets stung for trying to meet children online, all while another police department are watching and gathering evidence on his neighbour who has stolen his identity, and is posing as him to meet children online - they let the innocent guy's life get demolished because they didnt want to blow their case, he lost everything - so yeah, they know if you use the neighbours wifi

    • @ralphm6901
      @ralphm6901 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I wonder if they'd know if you use some random other person's wifi some distance away, by using wireless-to-wifi relay. Imagine a battery-powered device with something like a RaspberryPi, the wifi connects to someone's wifi, and a wireless adaptor with a sim card to get on the phone network. Dial that phone number and you're using that other person's wifi from miles away.

    • @szergalblack1920
      @szergalblack1920 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      with a sim card
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @marinob7433
    @marinob7433 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    great interview. as OCTW said...even he...is not anonymous to some people that have resources,time and skills. great interview Dave. Great presentation. i believe you must create a course for footprinting etc. or even as an end user..if someone attacks you , some basic forensics and if you have a chance to find by yourself this neighbour ...it will be valuable.

  • @DaWhiteTyger
    @DaWhiteTyger 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Man thank you for this interview! Alongside the instructions, I was able to find a far easier way to setup configure and launch firefox and the TOR browser onto a daisy-chain of proxies! One step closer, MY MAN! Liked and subbed, usually don't sub to big channels but you are another Louis Rossmann, big enough but good enough messages to not pay attention to. (R2R 4 Eva!)

    • @binford5000
      @binford5000 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ü😅

  • @josh-cast
    @josh-cast หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’ve cut back on fun spending because all my budget items have increased. Utilities, gas and food keep going up. Summer is expensive anyway. Great video!

  • @vILLmatic24
    @vILLmatic24 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    It's funny, how I tried watching Mr. Robot around the time I started my cybersecurity journey and I thought it was a good show but started losing interest during season 2. Fast forward a couple years later and countless hours of studying pentesting, I decided to restart the series a few days ago and its way better than I remember and so many of the small references make sense now lol. Including the exit node scene from episode 1.

    • @prolificseeker4778
      @prolificseeker4778 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Right on man, you watched it on Netflix??

    • @SkeltherBot
      @SkeltherBot 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yea, its funny. Seems like me, 5 years ago first time i watched it. This series is muuuch better if you know what's happen on the screen.

    • @chrisdawson1776
      @chrisdawson1776 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prolificseeker4778>Series about hacking and technology
      >Did you watch it on Netflix?
      Lol

    • @freedomisfromtruth
      @freedomisfromtruth 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I tried to watch it since it was techy but it was boring at the time. I'll wait when its on free streaming

    • @V___156
      @V___156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Seriously. For me, I'm watching it right now, and the references for Linux, Tor, Phishing, etc, make a lot of sense after 6 + months of training.

  • @pimpampet7053
    @pimpampet7053 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Nice video Dave. But strange you're not discussing Tails OS. Get a cheap or second hand laptop with 8Gb RAM (the more the better), a bootable USB3 port (almost al laptops from five years or younger have that) and a USB3 thumb-drive and you have a quite quick anonymous machine....

  • @stephenfwadsworth9565
    @stephenfwadsworth9565 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Spent my young years finding people, before internet. So Groan.

  • @bjamiork
    @bjamiork ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Wild, I was JUST pondering this very question two nights ago. I've used Tor on and off since maybe around 2007 and since then, I've become a sysadmin. I'm always thinking about cyber security and how I can improve it. I figured the NSA pretty much had a handle on Tor. Good info in this vid, thanks!

    • @ralphm6901
      @ralphm6901 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would not be surprised if NSA and every other national spy agency has at least one TOR node.

  • @renn3014
    @renn3014 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is so interesting and informative! I’d love to hear more about using Linux as I’m a newbie :D this was so interesting and remaining anonymous is definitely not something you can do by purely using a vpn and I’m so glad you touched on that ! 🙌 great video

    • @scorch4299
      @scorch4299 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      any vpn you buy is attached to your credit card :P meaning law enforcement can supeanoa it

  • @BoxOfGod
    @BoxOfGod หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Good news is there is whole world outside internet which doesn't care at all what happens online. Most of us forgot that and don't know how it works even.

    • @Darth001
      @Darth001 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Most trueful fact

  • @isloth75
    @isloth75 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Glad someone spoke clearly about the use of AI in assessing & using our data. It does seem like AI tries to think ahead for us. It does seem intrusive. Just because I'm thinking about holiday cookies, doesn't mean I want them to pop up in adds everywhere. At first it made me scared that some mind-reader or psychic was harassing or targeting me via my phone. That's just how it can really feel. Especially if "push alerts" are not controlled.

    • @Slimeyeddread247
      @Slimeyeddread247 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Target super store started this trend years ago starting with expecting mothers and giving out coupons

  • @GhettoLenin
    @GhettoLenin ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is my favorite TH-cam channel. Most informative and thought provoking hands down.

  • @owenk8203
    @owenk8203 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    2 million soon! Can't wait to see what you have planned! Congrats David. You're awesome.

    • @davidbombal
      @davidbombal  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you very much Owen! Hopefully be soon :)

    • @nieczerwony
      @nieczerwony ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How David still doesn't have 10M subs is beyond me. I subbed when there was like 500k, and I am very happy to see him having nearly 2M, and proud to be part of this community of secure conscious folks.
      You don't have to be networking engineer or even IT. Just realize that big part of everyone's life today is in the internet and you should be interested in this topic.

    • @davidbombal
      @davidbombal  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you!

    • @rxtechandtrading
      @rxtechandtrading ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@nieczerwonyhis Udemy courses are actually really good to

  • @JeremyMcMillan
    @JeremyMcMillan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think we need to shift the conversation from the ideal of anonymity to the practical compromise of pseudonymity, and just use anonymity as a benchmark for evaluating different identity defense systems. Only the designers need to dither about the Philosophy and formal logic. Everyone needs an optimally engineered solution.

  • @LryuzakiLN
    @LryuzakiLN หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That hoodie guy could be an FBI agent, anonymous ofcourse 😂

  • @todorivanov317
    @todorivanov317 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I really enjoy these podcasts, when i have long drives i always put yours on. Thank you for doing what your doing David. Im really excited about the Pegasus video. All the best!

  • @nsrstevenson
    @nsrstevenson 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    David, I am watching both of you with much anticipation and realizing how fast the world is moving away from my limited understanding of the basics of computer science. what brought me here is the frustration state I am in for the past two weeks. I recently discovered that all my social media accounts have been hacked. My inbox is full of warning and threatening emails.!!
    I need your help if you can please.
    Looking forward to hearing from you.
    Nicholas

    • @hopesy12u4
      @hopesy12u4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dude no, call your police station, they should have a cybercrime unit. Also, call a lawyer, see what he says just in case.

    • @SpaceCadet4Jesus
      @SpaceCadet4Jesus 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      So did you find out who did it and did you persecute them? Or did this just turn out to be a none issue?

  • @dennismatsson9995
    @dennismatsson9995 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I would LOVE for this to be a podcast

  • @H2R5GSXR
    @H2R5GSXR 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great upload. I was USAF working for NAVY in a Unit voted Best unit in NSA for the year.

  • @jamesmckee9017
    @jamesmckee9017 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Occupy The Web is a guy I could see myself having a beer with.

    • @davidbombal
      @davidbombal  ปีที่แล้ว +20

      But neither of us ever will unfortunately as he is totally anonymous...

    • @thedapperturkey
      @thedapperturkey ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If you could find him lol

    • @jamesmckee9017
      @jamesmckee9017 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@davidbombal Hmmm, well if I were to ever be blessed with a job offer from the NSA... It would be good incentive to accept, if for no other reason than to grab a beer with OTW 😊

    • @jamesmckee9017
      @jamesmckee9017 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thedapperturkey I'm nowhere near that good...lol

    • @davidbombal
      @davidbombal  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lol... that's a great comment James!

  • @rami.0092
    @rami.0092 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I like the way that you gather things for good purposes and you do. It encourages me to see any video you create, Sir. I highly appreciate your work. Keep going on.😊👍

  • @ed1g1tal
    @ed1g1tal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great info. One counter argument - An anon VM is way easier to quickly/cleanly nuke and dispose of than a separate HW rig is.

    • @martinberan2136
      @martinberan2136 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      But your VM still carry your own MAC addr. Therefore your computer.easy to compare. Unless you will flash the network adapter (not all can be changed)

  • @williamedwards6519
    @williamedwards6519 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    On a dedicated flash drive, run a trimmed OS, custom configured for only the interface you plan to use. Complete with only the drivers for the exact devices installed, and any additional drivers for hardware you might use. Cut the OS to the BONE. Pre config to he is your swap file, set to a second flash drive, yes, a separate drive, not a separate drive volume on the same physical drive. Use Tor or another alternate connection method,, ( if using the neighbor's wifi, use at least 3, hopping thru three different homes, ideally choosing neighbors w/ 3 different ISPs ,)then running the chain link, then, share your connection to a secondary device, connect to the Internet thru the provided link, then , run tor, run chain link...profiles are the key. Create profiles of people who naturally would be searching for what you'll search for. Health- a mother, "how to.." a tinkerer, a 'maker", a jr reporter. Don't forget to make a few with your same name, and build them up on social media. Because they know you exist. You HAVE to be on the internet SOMEWHERE, right? Or dead....

  • @luwfu7467
    @luwfu7467 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    when bad people exposing themselves out in the open in broad daylight proudly doing bad while people against them has to be shady, creeping, tip toeing in the dark like thieves. upside down world and you comply

    • @NicholasVincent-ol1zk
      @NicholasVincent-ol1zk 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Comp lies what are you a token pump? Got bit coin golden beaver local.

  • @TehPixel8dNinja
    @TehPixel8dNinja ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love seeing OTW on the channel! Great interview and information, thanks so much David!

  • @TheElectronicDilettante
    @TheElectronicDilettante 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for all the great videos. Excellent content and guests, you know who, for example.
    I’m almost 50 and I regret, every time I log on the a piece of tech, that I didn’t try to learn Linux when it first hit the scene.
    My concern now, has to do with Microsoft , adding the WSL functionality to the stock options of Windows. When you read the user agreements that are buried along side and pertaining toWSL, it seems that it was not a benevolent decision to allow Windows users to access Linux. I hope someone looks into this because Microsoft doesn’t do anything for free. And the way the new user agreements ( that no one reads and blindly agree to) seem like the position Microsoft to take ownership of anything the may be created under WSL. I hope I’m wrong. If not, I hope someone brings it to light.
    Thanks again!!

    • @SpaceCadet4Jesus
      @SpaceCadet4Jesus 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Linux is not hard to learn to use. It's a pain to troubleshoot though.
      All the steps you have to go through to ensure competent anonymity doesn't seem to be worth the effort to hide yourself from unknown entities who have the power to easily find you anyways. And of course the more secure you are the less usable you will be, not to mention the slowness involved.

  • @electric_cafe
    @electric_cafe ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mr. David I absolutely love your shows and try to do my best in viewing them all. I'm kinda new to this field but have found it to be what you could call an obsession/passion in everything to do with hacking. I've never heard of OTW and find him truly fascinating and informative. I appreciate all your efforts and the things you share with us all. Maybe you could have him or even yourself doing a show on AndroRAT, Android-RAT Hawkshaw, Dendroid, HaxRat, LaRat, Mass-Rat, Teardroid-phprat and WH-RAT. Maybe all the RAT's? I apologize if you've covered these already. As I said, I'm new in this field and to your channel as well. But thank you none the less for all that you do. It's greatly appreciated.

    • @dominichowell961
      @dominichowell961 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't play with RATs if you're new to hacking

  • @HelovesU-we4qh
    @HelovesU-we4qh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This guy must work for the government, he's not really giving you anything that makes you truly anonymous!

    • @davideusebio1854
      @davideusebio1854 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Say your suggestion

    • @PathToProsper209
      @PathToProsper209 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I guess it is all how you individually look at it. Because if you payed attention he spoke alot on several different topics on how to remain anonymous. If you can understand what he is saying or recommending you need to learn more basic services

    • @NioclasV
      @NioclasV 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There is no true anonymity on the internet. OTW said all that you can only do, is place up hurdles. You can only be as anonymous as your ability to be too expensive to trace. A government who wants to find out who you are will find out who you are.

  • @tao3964
    @tao3964 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    David's content should be getting at least 10k likes. He is literally giving out paid information for free.

    • @carstenjensen3123
      @carstenjensen3123 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      He is actually not giving away much information. He just goes on and on about how "they have other sources than the IP-address and so on". He doesn't get into what other sources - only that you have too understand them. This seems to be more of an hour long ad for his books and him.

    • @camelotenglishtuition6394
      @camelotenglishtuition6394 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@carstenjensen3123 he's pushing protonmail, that's enough for me to switch off

    • @atorik1076
      @atorik1076 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nah, this informations arent really that special.

    • @camelotenglishtuition6394
      @camelotenglishtuition6394 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@atorik1076 *information

    • @techslugz
      @techslugz ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree with you bro he should have 10k+ views always as his content is amazing! But I gotta ask what is paid information? If you mean that others have taken the information and packaged it into a course to sell. Then he doesn't sell courses it's more like a show. Also, all of the information is available for free, and has been for decades, online. Actually, if you want to learn more in depth dude, continue watching David because he is great! Lol but also, follow some documentation that you have to read and do actions. Make a target and figure out how you can achieve 🙃

  • @Goodwin454
    @Goodwin454 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love what you do boss , always I have to come to your channel at least once a day , one of the people that making change for the good in this world . I really have an immense respect to you Sir .

  • @ambrosebeavers
    @ambrosebeavers 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hey David, thank you. This is good stuff. What is your recomended start point to be an ethical hacker please?

  • @suzanneelmore5528
    @suzanneelmore5528 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow, I unfortunately was the last generation as a kid that didn't have internet. When I was 7 i had my 2nd major surgery for a serious heart defect at birth, I had a tutor and was very smart, I seriously still remember my 2nd grade teacher's name b/c I completed all of the assignments she gave my tutor. I got to school in October and My class was on Long division and double digit multiplication , long division. I wasn't. I tried so hard , My big brother was in HS and homework would 6 hours 3 of which crying. Teacher said I wasn't trying or disrupting the class and put me behind the filing cabinets. ( i was on high school reading & writing level and my grammar was far ahead of a grade school kiddo). They wouldn't keep me back and that was their error, They kept passing me through grades even though I sucked at math & science since 2nd grade, I begged to be kept back. Most of my friends were one or 2 yrs ahead or one below, ALGERBRA KILLED ME, and I struggled with geometry. I just stopped going to classes b/c i liked algebra and with my brother I could do it but w/o at school the teacher called me a pot head. We got computers and were on Dos. I to this day understand what you are saying completely but have no patience b/c my accounting math is to the penny, I think it's because NO ONE HELPED AND I ASKED. WHEN WE GOT COMPUTERS IN HS. DOS SYSTEM, I HAD ONE YEAR AND MY BROTHER HAD MOVED OUT WITH HIS FIANCE and my home life was so messed up I spent 2/3 of that yr with my best friends family and was put in senior math, The teacher pulled me aside and asked all the right questions , He went through my records and knew I was in rock bands playing adult venues since I was a kid, I had had a scoliosis brace for 4,5 years as a result of my two open heart surgeries which done differently for aesthetic reasons 90% of young girls had to be braced , not all followed the directions or wore theirs, My Mother caught mine young but technology wasn't then what it is now. He pulled me aside about two weeks later. I was a day dreamer, on drugs, didn't pay attention, and many other behavioral issues were in there, along with school psych evals that didn't match up at all to statements made by half of my teachers and no one looked at the ones from classes i aced. He WAS FURIOUS B/C he found that I had been ambidextrous and forced to use only my right side , had photographic and eidetic memory last checked at in grammar school and serious dyslexia post 2nd heart surgery. None of which was used to after how I was taught, He went right to my computer teacher after he and I talked and I ended up in tears and between the two of them luckily because Intro to 'computers was new it was Pass or Fail, she passed me through so I could go to math with him for senior math but instead of computers and during MY LAST SEMESTER I WAS IN HIS FRESHMAN MATH FUNDAMENTALS. I did horrible in computers in College but was only until I could change my major. Im definitely one who learns by all my senses and I know Govt & Politics like back of my hand. and One math teacher is reason that I passed math part of Real Estate on first shot and was a nurse who had no issues with medical conversions. I am glad I found you.

  • @Working800
    @Working800 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As always good content, I'm impressed with you I really like your videos usually with videos longer than 10 minutes I watch them between days but yours almost always keep me engaged.

  • @alexsledge
    @alexsledge ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I don't try and be invisible, but I do poison my data with many un-me activities anytime monitoring is possible. Exactly the same method for dealing with AI. They use your interactions to further train their models, so take action to break them with inappropriate feedback to the "AI".

    • @ralphm6901
      @ralphm6901 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Back in the day when email was first practical, people were concerned about NSA, FBI, etc reading their emails, so some percentage of users changed their signatures to include words like bomb, gun, and explosives in order to poison the well and make the scanning machines scan and store worthless emails as well as any that might be interesting.

    • @alexsledge
      @alexsledge ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@ralphm6901 Yeah, I did that. Lots of fun to be had on mainframes back then.

    • @JoshuaBasdeo-ue7us
      @JoshuaBasdeo-ue7us 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I knew this from day 1.

    • @SpaceCadet4Jesus
      @SpaceCadet4Jesus 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@ralphm6901I'm sure that really threw the NSA and the FBI off course. 😅

    • @ralphm6901
      @ralphm6901 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@SpaceCadet4Jesus that was back in the day before supercomputers were invented and huge amounts of disk storage cost huge amounts of money, and there were no giant database indexing engines. Desktop PCs commonly ran on 8" or 5.25" floppy discs, and if you bought a really expensive PC it might come with a 10Mb hard drive. The theory was that the more traffic they captured, the more the system would be bogged down and the less useful it would be. These days, that's no longer true. Anyone can go online and buy a 14Tb (or larger) drive to add to their PC. Government agencies have petabytes of storage and fast search engines to process it.

  • @mabrouk642
    @mabrouk642 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Quality content as usual, Thank you David!

  • @Robulite
    @Robulite 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favorite thing to do is have a open network to just see what people do. Always fun to look

  • @ankush5814
    @ankush5814 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Needed all the content that he tells in this video to learn for free. And thanks for uploading the important information for learning. ❤

  • @Lars_Paulsen
    @Lars_Paulsen 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Another thing that's important is to never mix your hacker life with your public life. That means as an example; If your turner phone is located where your private phone usually is located, that would be a no no, even if your private phone isn't there or off at the time. Treat all of the things you use that can connect to the web or to a phone company as a node and make sure that hacker nodes have never been online in, around, on the way to or together with any of your private nodes. If they have, you can get rid of them at once. This is one of the reasons why there are schools for these kind of government operators. It's also the reason why people who are working under these kind of rules don't do much else than this work. It takes up a lot of the time each day, just to do the smallest thing.

    • @franciscozubillaga3241
      @franciscozubillaga3241 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, I'm a little techtarded myself but was always concerned with the blue tooth connecting to local devices possibly showing location.

    • @lilchoppa7833
      @lilchoppa7833 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@franciscozubillaga3241Same

    • @SpaceCadet4Jesus
      @SpaceCadet4Jesus 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's only the black hat hackers trying to hide their nefarious activities. White hat hackers would rather be known and get notoriety that they're good and make much money.

  • @QuintinMassey
    @QuintinMassey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m super critical when it comes to seeing how someone “moves” around the file system using the terminal. I hope he was being deliberate about everything just for the sake of being clear to people watching because it was telling if not haha

  • @SindhuSaraswati
    @SindhuSaraswati 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Informative! Thanks David and the anonymous guest.

  • @anandparan3011
    @anandparan3011 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Arguably the best technology and security TH-cam channel. You cannot find this much quality content,even if you are ready to pay for some dollars.

    • @rxtechandtrading
      @rxtechandtrading ปีที่แล้ว

      hes beter than most of the jerkoffs on youtube dats for sure!!!!

  • @abdirahmanmohamedsaid6201
    @abdirahmanmohamedsaid6201 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you David and OTW . I have already received the the books you mentioned. Best teacher and best IT youtuber. Waiting for more episodes like Pegasus.
    Thanks for your information and knowledge.

  • @jeffreyryan7671
    @jeffreyryan7671 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    You know this guy is really a hacker, because he wears a hoodie. ALL hackers wear hoodies. X D

    • @LryuzakiLN
      @LryuzakiLN หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol 😂 dude I do hard labour and I wear a hoodie all the time to protect myself from the SUN, what a non sense comment 😂

    • @lucystrauss2989
      @lucystrauss2989 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everyone wears hoodies 😂😂😂

    • @NicholasVincent-ol1zk
      @NicholasVincent-ol1zk 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      What is hoodie like foreskin when root,private,jimmy,junk is woodie & toy story @ with alter white board key/legend map adam college & eve universe radcliff mickey meredith.

  • @xscitobor1233
    @xscitobor1233 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When ever Tor and layers come up I always think about shrek and i was no dissapointed today

  • @parryoyakhire6568
    @parryoyakhire6568 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Whoever controls the final notes controls the traffic. That's my
    Golden Nugget

  • @dwolf0012
    @dwolf0012 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    David Never fails to deliver Great Cybersecurity Knowledge! Thanks

  • @supreemcourt9181
    @supreemcourt9181 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The fact that he’s anonymous in this interview just makes him that much more credible lol

  • @Tyler-hh8jx
    @Tyler-hh8jx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you OTW you're awesome, good stuff on here really appreciate it! I'd love to see you on here discussing some wifi hacking info

  • @anapaulac.diasvaz1132
    @anapaulac.diasvaz1132 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I just want to tell you OTW, that you are a great source of information and knowledge. I now understand how dangerous is the web.
    Please keep giving us more feedback on forensics/wifi hacking/ tracing bitcoins and tracing scammers!!!

  • @charginginprogresss
    @charginginprogresss ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Seemed like a serious anonymous dude, then he adviced crapmium browser brave lmao

    • @szergalblack1920
      @szergalblack1920 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      he gets money for advertising brave.

  • @Aluminata
    @Aluminata 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Like an insect trying to stay anonymous from a spider as it jiggles around in it's web.

  • @Otero_2
    @Otero_2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm watching you off video, and i'm thinking i've never joins anyone or paid anyone to hear a see, they're material, but You caught my attention and I so need some wisdom pertaining to security on the net and More. I Have Some Questions And Was Wondering If There's A Way To Communicate Privately? THANKS, I'll Await A Response.

  • @kristeinsalmath1959
    @kristeinsalmath1959 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Thank you two for this interview and the hard "pills".
    Also, I still stick with FF. Not only for "privacy", to avoid monopoly of "chromium" as well. Use Brave is keep the monopoly of Chromium.

    • @zvxcvxcz
      @zvxcvxcz ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Same, and with some tweaks Firefox is just as anonymous as Brave, but Brave hasn't been around long enough to build up trust with me either.

    • @luphoria
      @luphoria ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The mention of Brave feels like an ad lol. Brave has analytics (worse than Firefox). This guy seems to have pretty juvenile understanding of opsec, but a juvenile understanding is plenty enough if all you're doing is talk shows and hiding your commercial identity

    • @kristeinsalmath1959
      @kristeinsalmath1959 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@luphoria It's good say "I use Brave" but actually I use a Chromium self-compiled by me"

    • @mwright80
      @mwright80 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@luphoriaok.... so direct to something better.

    • @etuc123
      @etuc123 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Librewolf is the Brave of FF

  • @ToyMachine22122
    @ToyMachine22122 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    14:30 surprised he didn't mention Brave browser's option to block cross-site cookies here.
    By blocking only cross-site cookies (and still allowing same-site cookies) you can prevent websites from profiling you, without sacrificing functionality in the vast majority of cases.

    • @wildkoala1034
      @wildkoala1034 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      28:40

    • @Merble
      @Merble ปีที่แล้ว +10

      or Firefox, which also pisses off Google so win-win-win.

    • @LAIDBACKMANNER
      @LAIDBACKMANNER 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Merble Sure... But firefox developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

  • @Sumbdy_u_know1999
    @Sumbdy_u_know1999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great interview! Guys the real deal, If you're into hacking, windows should not be your OS of choice

  • @InnovationScience24
    @InnovationScience24 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for those amazing infor, David my regards to occupy the web am sure I will be able to build back my workstation and how about when I got a question to ask.

  • @kandym3478
    @kandym3478 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Can you guys make a video on people search and how to OSINT other people, including yourself? Not like hide from the FBI privacy, but to show the kinds of tools and techniques someone doing the investigation would use. I think it would fill in some gaps.

  • @klwthe3rd
    @klwthe3rd ปีที่แล้ว +20

    These statements about whoever controls the last node on a Tor circuit, controls the network, is in sharp contrast with Dr. Mike Pound's(who appeared on this channel) video on the Tor network. Dr. Mike Pound states that if you control the last node and the Guard node(the first node), yes it's possible but VERY VERY hard to work your way back to the originator of the traffic sent. Occupy the Web makes it sound like it's could all be done from the exit node. This is blatant hyperbole and sensationalism. Dr. Mike Pound is one of the premier professors on the subject. I'm more encouraged to believe him over anyone else. Also, If the Tor network was that easy to compromise the identify of people just by controlling the last node, it would be useless.

    • @PaulWhealinglive
      @PaulWhealinglive 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      100 % bro. OTW bends the facts a fair bit. Like all his facts

    • @hunglikeahamster
      @hunglikeahamster 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I worked for a security company for a while.
      Some of the guys there used to host tor nodes specifically to monitor the traffic in order to see what hackers were doing now.
      Just to keep ahead of the game.
      In fairness to this video. He didn't claim that controlling the exit node gives you the user's IP.
      But like he said, that's only one way to find you.

    • @klwthe3rd
      @klwthe3rd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@hunglikeahamster How does hosting a Tor Node allow someone to see what "hackers are doing"? The traffic is encrypted and those people would NOT be able to descrypt anything since they don't host the node before or after the one they are monitoring. What information are they going to decipher from that monitoring??

  • @frugalwilliemae
    @frugalwilliemae 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    New subscriber! Thank you for this video!!

  • @fredod5271
    @fredod5271 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great show... More Mr. Robot and wifi info would be helpful.

  • @sasookay514
    @sasookay514 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    A lot of this stuff is very logical if you know a little bit of how the basics of the internet work (ie. DNS, IPv4, ISPs, etc). I'm just a normal IT guy thinking of getting into Cybersecurity and I spent a lot of time thinking of how to stay anonymous and I kept coming up with "nope can't trust that, or that, someone else owns it, so they can probably see it". This video really validated a lot of what I was thinking which is what I kind of needed to hear.
    Thank you to David and OTW for confirming that becoming anonymous while invaluable is incredibly difficult and is really all about what's it's ultimately worth and to who it's worth considering all the breadcrumbs that become so easy to leave behind. It really takes a lot of effort, intelligence and constant awareness to stay anonymous.

  • @sonofbadbill9501
    @sonofbadbill9501 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had wondered about something based on the burner phone. A wifi style device that can be located far enough from your physical location to confuse your location, buried or sited somewhere remote(on a roof?). You would wifi to the device using the biggest security key possible. I'd say that if you were geo-static then if someone wanted to badly enough, then they could still get you by electo-magnetic techniques, so you'd want to keep moving. A lot of trouble for the average person whose not in fear or up to no good. But the concept of presenting a moving target has got to be the best solution. I also wondered if it would be possible to just tag random cars with a network of wifi-style devices. Of course then there is the issue of the car(s) driving out of range. Moving target and no financial traceability to me are the concepts to develop on. Interesting topic just from a technical puzzle perspective.

    • @davemccombs
      @davemccombs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Electro magnetic techniques?" lol

  • @user-mb3su1hv8z
    @user-mb3su1hv8z 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The guest is incredibly intelligent and has great insight! Thank you for having him on the network.

  • @Deefourteen
    @Deefourteen 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    You did mention this but still: There is no such thing as truly being anonymous or safe. It's all about making it as hard as possible to find you and hoping that the person or thing trying to find you will not have enough knowledge or motive to find you.

  • @kebman
    @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I don't buy FBI's neighbour's WI-FI argument for several reasons. Instead the claim is constructed to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. This is often enough to deter criminals from doing nefarious things. Moreover if suspicious activity is emerging from an IP, they have to thoroughly test the theory that it's not actually the IP's owner who did the malicious thing. With that aside, sure, it's a nice idea to knock on doors. But if the police knocked on _your_ door checking on "nefarious internet activity," would you tell them outright that, "Ya, sure, it was me! I hacked into the neighbours Wifi. Here are muh hands, just cuff me nauw pls!" Not very likely.

    • @keylanoslokj1806
      @keylanoslokj1806 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ive seen special antennas that can reach WiFi routers 5 miles away only for 300 dollars. Not a bad distance at all and definitely not next door radius.

    • @djbroake9810
      @djbroake9810 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      you should look at what a device does when looking for wifi networks.

    • @zvxcvxcz
      @zvxcvxcz ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They likely have additional information already they are trying to match. Aka, someone uploading inappropriate stuff and they find the subjects depicted at one of those nearby homes and the content has interior footage that can be matched to the home. I doubt it is a matter of just asking people to confess to crimes.

    • @GerardSalva
      @GerardSalva 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I have wasted several minutes trying to find someone who would think the same way as I do. The moment they say "it's 100% certain they will catch you," it already demonstrates how false it's being.
      If you're going to live in a city with tall buildings resembling beehives and you get yourself a good antenna, I'll bet you whatever you want that it stops being 100%.
      Furthermore, I don't know where this person lives, but in my country, without a judicial order, they can't enter your house. Do you know how much time they would waste searching everything?
      It's true that many people have committed cybercrimes, but you don't need to be intelligent to do it either. The people who are truly intelligent continue committing crimes and they haven't been caught. So, getting back to the topic, that 100% is completely false.

    • @Cubic_cat
      @Cubic_cat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@GerardSalvathere is no anonymity in the internet, Tor is not anonymous, most exit and entry nodes are controlled by fbi.

  • @Slackware1995
    @Slackware1995 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    First rule, always use a private DNS under your own control.
    What isn't talked about is how quickly you are identified by your meta-data.
    Lets say you go to a public terminal leaving all electronic devices at home. You will quickly be identified based on how you type and what sites you go to.
    How fast you type, how you spell, your grammer and more are all part of "how you type". This meta-data is so unique as to be close to a fingerprint.
    Combine that with which websites you visit in what order and you are known.
    He talks about turning your phone off, that doesn't protect you. A smart phone has 2 cpu's. The one that operatea the smart phone and the SIM card. The only way to turn off the SIM card is to remove the battery, which most modern cell phones don't allow.
    The SIM is "pinging" (not the ping command) nearby cell towers every few seconds. This means that every devIce with a SIM is continuously located. Most modern cars have a SIM.

    • @rpm10k.
      @rpm10k. ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A sim card is not a CPU. The second CPU in a phone is the baseband aka modem

    • @Slackware1995
      @Slackware1995 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rpm10k. If you google "SIM card" you will find out that it is also known as a "UICC" or Universal Integrated Circuit Card. You will then find out that the UICC "consists of a CPU, ROM, RAM, EEPROM and I/O circuits."
      You may also find some XRay pictures of a SIM card that show the tiny little cpu in it. Phones are starting to switch to "eSIM" cards, which just means that the separate cpu in on the phone and can be 1 or more virtual eSIM's.
      The baseband processor is not a modem, although it can provide modem functions.

    • @Cubic_cat
      @Cubic_cat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Slackware1995thanks for the info about CPU in the sim cart, but I saw an interesting line in your comment, "Use a private DNS server". What do you even mean by that?

    • @hitmax087
      @hitmax087 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Cubic_cathe meant that whenever you need to get an IP of resource you go to DNS server, which resolves names to IPs. If i manage to point you to my DNS server or hack current one, i will be able to fish your credentials from fake facebook for example. Did you catch a point?

    • @allanlloyd6668
      @allanlloyd6668 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You must not have heard of faraday bad or wrapping device in tin foil

  • @Kiddos4Artoons
    @Kiddos4Artoons 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Damn Mr Anonymous sounds like DJ Vald his cadence and even his laugh just makes me feel like it’s him especially how he works with the Feds and would be the perfect guy too be in cybersecurity 😂😂😂

  • @lanatrzczka
    @lanatrzczka 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have to say something about turning off cookies or services. Those are only visual representations that seem satisfying to the end user. There is absolutely no guarantee that choosing any of those options does anything at all. It could be easily programmed to show a graphical slider showing "off" while literally not affecting the coding underneath. Even a Visual Basic programmer knows that progress bars are totally fake.

  • @NebulaHatesWatchdog
    @NebulaHatesWatchdog ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Seems like this guy is really smart one second, and BSing the next. Maybe it was just me picking up on that vibe. It kinda caught me off guard when he mentioned arch as a privacy distro, and when he was showing us a terminal tool, but couldn’t tab complete the config file. Also… brave?! That’s one of my last choices for a private browser. It’s based on google chrome (chromium), and is made by a company I find creepy. Not to mention the fact that he suggested starlink as something that helps your security! It’s just as identifying as a normal internet connection with the info it requires, that’s simply no better.

    • @samuelepadoan4993
      @samuelepadoan4993 ปีที่แล้ว

      Than why arch Is not Good for privacy?

    • @distinct_mind
      @distinct_mind ปีที่แล้ว

      what is best browser is your opinion?

    • @bfx8185
      @bfx8185 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Finally somebody with brain :)

    • @igelineau
      @igelineau ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I scrolled the comments A LOT longer than I should have to find a comment saying that.
      Haha the failure to use shell auto-complete was painful to watch.
      Half his advices are phony, an the other half are missing nuances.
      Adding a few things:
      - ProtonMail as the best mail provider ??? No mention of anonymous tor mail providers?
      - Try to refresh the ip address site to get a new IP, does not know that tor circuits are reused per website/host?
      - edit a config file in an obscure GUI text editor?

    • @bfx8185
      @bfx8185 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@distinct_mind answer is the question ... what browser is used in hacking distros? 😆

  • @tomsaltner3011
    @tomsaltner3011 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    What is your opinion on the theory that the more you try to “hide” (no social networks, no unencrypted traffic and alike) will actually make you pop up in certain surveillance monitors and makes you a special target?
    According to this theory it would be better to simulate a “normal life” and hide only specific traffic in there…

    • @picketf
      @picketf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Well, if we include the IOT Internet of things , you could mask highly sensitive data in what looks to be FOB/ GPS tracker / babycam type of traffic, e.g. mimic the packet size and frequency of transmission to match such devices. Depending on how much of telemetry you can disable from sending then not actually connecting to social media or Google ID trackers would be in line with IOT devices comunicating over the web. But yeah, if you don't know how to fully disable windows and browser telemetry AND it appears you're generating traffic that avoids connecting to Google & Facebook servers then that in itself could be considered highly suspicious because most people wouldn't know how to disable traffic to these platforms

    • @linsqopiring6816
      @linsqopiring6816 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I think that's absolutely true. And this will only become more relevant as AI and surveillance increases.

    • @linsqopiring6816
      @linsqopiring6816 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@picketfThey have loads of experience detecting and breaking steganography. People have been trying that one for decades.

    • @Tech-geeky
      @Tech-geeky 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its too late... any change to it NOW is not gonna make it better. Info is already on the internet... That is not gonna get rid of
      Even if you go to the extreme and change names, address and what ever else could be changed in reality (excludes DOB), it still won't change anything that is online before the change was made... I guess, it would limit finding out, but these days if the governments want to profile bits and pieces of people, they will have no problem doing that. There will always be some ''key' piece of info and evidence they can get hold of "Peron X just changed their name to Y" so there is a link we can use..
      You really only get one chance, and from then on it will never be the same.

    • @Soniic95
      @Soniic95 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thats the point with ppl tweaking their browsers to be "absolute anonymous" meanwhile EVERY website says bro just use the STANDARD browser settings with some addons and thats it.

  • @user-ml8gt7dy6v
    @user-ml8gt7dy6v 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This stuff is interesting.really knowing this allows u to understand how easy it is for ppl to get you so protect ur info

  • @user-rs1lt2vt4g
    @user-rs1lt2vt4g 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much David 🙏 and the Gentleman 🤠

  • @gelkdaddy768
    @gelkdaddy768 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Occupy the web is amazing. Listening to the two of you on the stream has been one of the best streams I’ve ever listened to. Great content David.

    • @Bond2025
      @Bond2025 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ryan doesn't know that there is no agreed standard for encrypting mail sent between ISPs so it all goes as plain text. Protonmail can see everything without the need to decrypt anything after they encrypt it for users. Law Enforcement love it.
      He confused End2End with Encryption2Server. This is a common mistake.

    • @ebokanebo6386
      @ebokanebo6386 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Israelisnotourfriend actually, if you missed it or you had already stopped watching, at 50m 50secs on the video timeline you will find them telling what OTW would suggest using as an alternative browser solution@Israelisnotourfriend

    • @JestXDX
      @JestXDX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @Israelisnotourfriend
      They said the alternatives, you just didnt listen.
      And its not about "dont use them"
      Its about "dont use them if you want to remain anonymous"
      Most people dont care about their anonimity, which is fine.

    • @Neighborhoodcarpetcleaners
      @Neighborhoodcarpetcleaners 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@Israelisnotourfriend so it really does not matter, when it comes to your privacy. They did say don't use Chrome. As an alternative

  • @jameswatkinsiii7834
    @jameswatkinsiii7834 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think that it might be impossible to be anonymous, because at the Hacker conference we talked about a lot of other things, VM's,Screen Size, hardware heuristics, browsers. And the US three letter folks can crack all of these. The speaker was hiding from Russia and other cartels that his jobs was to attribute crimes to. He said he could not defeat the US cyber hounds. Even if you beat them, your traffic is the only one that is Anonymous. You then stick out and they can watch for that traffic. Hiding in plain site is the concept that would be the best chance of obfuscation. And staying on the move. And like the guest mentioned using starlink. And please don't do bad things in cyber space. Thanks for the great content.

    • @SpaceCadet4Jesus
      @SpaceCadet4Jesus 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And how do you suppose you're going to pay for Starlink? With an obfuscated credit card?

  • @leonardoduso4121
    @leonardoduso4121 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dude, the second a book like that is on the market, the vulnerabilities get fixed

  • @shade115
    @shade115 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The problem with disabling cookies is some websites will actually limit functionality or even make it impossible to navigate unless you turn on and accept cookies. How do you overcome that?

    • @chase1556
      @chase1556 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I also had this thought and came to the conclusion that I won’t sacrifice my privacy to purchase from a company that doesn’t value my privacy, and actively chooses to rid me of it.

    • @SpaceCadet4Jesus
      @SpaceCadet4Jesus 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You accept the cookies and then wipe them out later.

  • @MaramRohan
    @MaramRohan ปีที่แล้ว +12

    David, you should be proud for putting out such content!

  • @Herbaltum
    @Herbaltum 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    stay anonymous by:
    - using new/specific laptop that has no personal records of you
    - use wifi in public place
    - dress anonymously , use hat, mask, jackets, black glasses, so you don't get caught in cctv while in public place
    - pay by cash in the cafe with public wifi, don't use emoney or any digital payment
    - use new phone, with new simcard with fake data for registering if you want to use cellular instead of network
    - move into different places regularly
    - proxies are just the end of those steps

  • @CyberSod377
    @CyberSod377 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The amount of knowledge that I had gain from this video is more than my 2 year of computer information study

  • @hackingtipstricks5123
    @hackingtipstricks5123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We must have more OTW content David.

  • @theodanielwollff
    @theodanielwollff ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Running OS / VM off of RAM is the ONLY way to go. That is unless you want to destroy your hard drive / flash media afterwards. You have to wipe the drive 10 times over to erase the data for good. For RAM, the data is kept by voltage. Not power, no data. So if you put the computer to sleep or don't unplug the power after you are done, data can still remain in the banks. Eventually it will become corrupted though... Just a reminder, when you have physical access to the data, pretty much any encryption can be cracked. If you are running everything in RAM, unless they catch you in the act, nothing on your person can be linked to you.

  • @lambjab9832
    @lambjab9832 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They (whoever they are) must be extremely worried they will be discovered to be so obsessed.

  • @salvatorelivreri
    @salvatorelivreri 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think it goes without saying that you need to cover the camera of any burner phone and never let that thing get near your house or work.
    But if you use it to make a call, your voice will be captured and your identity revealed.

  • @JB-dz7sb
    @JB-dz7sb ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yes, really appreciate your work guys. Please bring all those topics starting with Bitcoin tracing/anonymity.