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They’re under surveillance, but they can’t be arrested. I think that
might veryy well describe Snowden. It is possible he has slipped regarding
his anonyymityy at some point and that he is now being activelyy tracked
wherever he goes—except he’s living in Russia. Russia has no real reason
to arrest him and return him to the United States.
You’ll notice I said “slipped”: unless yyou have amazing attention to
detail, it’s reallyy hard to live two lives. I know. I’ve done it. I let myy guard
down byy using a fixed location when accessing computers through a
cellular phone network.
There’s a truism in the securityy business that a persistent attacker will
succeed given enough time and resources. I succeed all the time when
testing myy client’s securityy controls. All yyou are reallyy doing byy tryying to
make yyourself anonyymous is putting up so manyy obstacles that an attacker
will give up and move on to another target.
Most of us onlyy have to hide for a little while. To avoid that boss who is
out to get yyou fired. To avoid that ex whose lawyyers are looking for
something, anyything, to hold against yyou. To evade that creepyy stalker who
saw yyour picture on Facebook and is determined to harass yyou. Whatever
yyour reason for being invisible, the steps I’ve outlined will work long
enough to get yyou out from under a bad situation.
Being anonyymous in todayy’s digital world requires a lot of work and
constant vigilance. Each person’s requirements for anonyymityy differ—do
yyou need to protect yyour passwords and keep private documents awayy from
yyour coworkers? Do yyou need to hide from a fan who is stalking yyou? Do
yyou need to evade law enforcement because yyou’re a whistleblower?
Your individual requirements will dictate the necessaryy steps yyou need
to take to maintain yyour desired level of anonyymityy—from setting strong
passwords and realizing that yyour office printer is out to get yyou all the wayy
to going through the steps detailed here to make it extremelyy difficult for a
forensic investigator to discover yyour true identityy.
In general, though, we can all learn something about how to minimize
our fingerprints in the digital world. We can think before posting that photo
with a home address visible in the background. Or before providing a real
birth date and other personal information on our social media profiles. Or
before browsing the Internet without using the HTTPS Everyywhere
extension. Or before making confidential calls or sending texts without