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>>wut42+(OP)
Im increasingly coming to the opinion that anonymity isnt guaranteed so you should assume everyone knows what you do.m and who you are. So you should probably just use your real name and do way less online.

Havent fully swallowed this pill but its feeling inevitable.

>>noneth+M6
I think it's all about how many clues you leave behind. If you make a HN account that you only access via Tor through a browser with Javascript turned off and stick your writing through some AI editing service, it's probably pretty difficult to trace anything back to you. If you stream yourself 16 hours a day every day, your nickname probably isn't saving you from much, as it only takes one person to go "oh I know them" and then your secret's out. So like everything, it's about a striking a balance. Who is out to get you, and how much do you like doing things online? Just a question you can ask yourself before you move into a cabin in the woods and work on your novel 24/7 or whatever. (Publish it under a pen name, though, obviously.)

>>jrockw+S8
Consider: if your adversary is the NSA, CIA, or (maybe) FBI, you’ve already lost the game you’re playing.

>>bas+v9
You would be surprised at how easily they can be thwarted by simple technical maneuvers.

YMMV, but ime a lot of people have this bogeyman caricature of who the feds really are. The reality is that these are government agencies that pay significantly below market rate for really intense, highly demanding work shrouded with multiple layers of government grade red tape.

>>no-dr-+ka
The issue is they have time. Lots and lots of time. And they keep records.

So if you get high enough on the list, it’s like those ‘immortal snail’/snail assassin scenarios.

Even Bin Laden got taken out and dumped in the ocean eventually.

So like Jan 6th - it had better work, or your goose is very likely cooked eventually.

>>lazide+7b
I think the biggest trick is to move around, so it isn't as simple as getting a single address. Like with Bin Laden, a lot of the work was figuring out where he was. And Ross Ulbricht, maybe he wouldn't have been caught so easily if he changed hosters occasionally and the VPN had listed 100 internet cafes in different cities as connecting IP addresses instead of just 1. Certainly that's the way Tor works, always hopping around routers. It's maybe a bit pointless though, once they get your legal name it's pretty much a matter of time.

>>Mathne+Kh
Damn, the snail assassin analogy works a lot better than I expected!