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Lilith2: /* Writing our own story */

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‎Writing our own story

Lilith2: /* Self-Doxing */

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‎Self-Doxing

Helen: /* 6. A different machine for each identity */

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‎6. A different machine for each identity

Stoop at 18:49, 27 May 2015

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Stoop: /* What is a digital shadow? */

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‎What is a digital shadow?

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 There are also alternatives available - social networking platforms that give much more freedom to their users and don't profile them.
 * Social networking platform '''Ello''' explicitly states in its manifesto that “You are not a product”. It also does not require "real names" - a rarity amongst commercial social networks. It's important to be aware, however, that Ello is still a commercial project
-*  There are alternatives that are community-based, distributed rather than centralized, based on free and open-source software and privacy-friendly. Among these, '''Diaspora '''(https://joindiaspora.com), '''Friendica '''([https://friendica.com)and https://friendica.com)] and '''Crabgrass '''(https://we.riseup.net) are especially worth mentioning.
+*  There are alternatives that are community-based, distributed rather than centralized, based on free and open-source software and privacy-friendly. Among these, '''Diaspora '''(https://joindiaspora.com), '''Friendica '''([https://friendica.com)and https://friendi.ca)] and '''Crabgrass '''(https://we.riseup.net) are especially worth mentioning.
 * Other similar sites may be popular in different regions, so we way wish to explore other options.

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 * Seeing through the eyes of our mobile phone by installing a tool called '''[https://openpaths.cc/ openpaths.cc]'''. Some of our apps can see the same things. Read the Terms of Service carefully and explore if you can change the access settings in your phone. On an iPhone we can change the permissions for each app under its privacy setting.
-==== '''Controlling what we share: content and metadata''' ====
+==== '''Control the content and metadata you share''' ====
 The good news is that we can partly control what content and metadata we give away.
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 To sum up, none of these tools protects us from every threat, and we shouldn’t look at them as a magic potion that will make us invulnerable. Nevertheless, by using any of them, according to our needs and resources, we will raise the level of effort that an attacker will need to harm us, thus making an attack less likely.
-For a wider comparison among these and other systems, go to: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others<nowiki/><nowiki/>
+For a wider comparison among these and other systems, go to: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others
 [[Category:Resources]]

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 The main point is that when we create an identity we should conceive a whole virtual persona, an avatar that needs to be nurtured and developed in order to become credible.
-This page offers some helpful tips for inventing a new identity: http://anonymissexpress.tumblr.com/post/117939311235/you-may-have-noticed
+This page offers some helpful tips for inventing a new identity: [[Roleplay]]
 ==== '''Creating a credible persona''' ====

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 Before we start exploring these web services and looking for our digital self, a good idea is to use anonymisation tools like Torbrowser.
-* Useful tips on how to self-dox are available here: https://lilithlela.cyberguerrilla.org/?page_id=93870
+* Useful tips on how to self-dox are available [[self-dox|here]]
 * For more about (self-)doxing tools and techniques, visit: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/investigation-online-gathering-information-to-assess-risk
 * A useful (and creepy!) tool to learn what traces we have left behind in our Facebook account is Ubisoft’s '''Digital Shadow''', a Facebook app which illustrates what third parties can know about us through our Facebook profiles: https://digitalshadow.com

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 === '''6. A different machine for each identity''' ===
-If we use the same operating system for our several identities, no matter how carefully we separate our profiles, we can still make a human mistake, for example connecting to a pseudonymous account through the browser profile we have assigned to our true identity, or get infected by a malware that allows our attacker to monitor all we do online, with all our identities, and connect dots together.
+If we use the same operating system for our several identities, no matter how carefully we separate our profiles we can still make a human mistake by, for example, connecting to a pseudonymous account through the browser profile we have assigned to our true identity, or get infected by a malware that allows our attacker to monitor everything we do online, with all our identities.
-Both risks can be limited by using a virtual machine for each of our domains, and by reserving yet another virtual machine to opening fishy attachments in order to avoid a malware infection.
+Both risks can be limited by using a virtual machine for each of our domains, and by reserving yet another virtual machine to opening untrusted attachments in order to avoid a malware infection.
-As the name suggests, a virtual machine (VM) is basically a simulated computer with its own OS which runs as software on our physical computer. We can think of a VM as a <em>computer within a computer</em>. Installing and running a virtual machine is not very complicated, and there is very good documentation around. For our purposes of anonymization, the best available option is to install '''Virtualbox''', an open-source, cross-platform virtual machine monitor (https://www.virtualbox.org), and to run Whonix in a virtual machine created with Virtualbox.
+As the name suggests, a virtual machine (VM) is basically a simulated computer with its own operating system, which runs as software on our physical computer. We can think of a VM as a <em>computer within a computer</em>. Installing and running a virtual machine is not very complicated, and there is very good documentation around. For our purposes of anonymisation, the best available option is to install '''Virtualbox''', an open-source, cross-platform virtual machine monitor (https://www.virtualbox.org). Using Virtualbox, you can create a virtual machine, and then run an operating system on it called Whonix.
 ==== '''Whonix: compartmentalizing our identities through a secure virtual machine''' ====
-'''Whonix '''(https://www.whonix.org) is an operating system that aims at protecting our anonymity, privacy and security by helping us use your applications anonymously. A web browser, IRC client, word processor and more come pre-configured with security in mind. It is a complete operating system designed to be used in a virtual machine. It is Free Software and based on '''Tor''', '''Debian''' GNU/Linux and '''security by isolation'''.
+'''Whonix '''(https://www.whonix.org) is an operating system that aims at protecting our anonymity, privacy and security by helping you to use your applications anonymously. A web browser, IRC client, word processor and more come pre-configured with security in mind. Whonix is a complete operating system designed to be used in a virtual machine. It is also free software, based on '''Tor''', '''Debian''' GNU/Linux and '''security by isolation'''.
 Whonix’s website offers a wide documentation, ranging from very clear installation and usage instructions to thorough recommendations on security and the risks we may run: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Documentation

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 * Exploring our individual digital shadow with '''Trace My Shadow''' – https://myshadow.org/trace-my-shadow – a tool launched by Tactical Tech, accompanied by a website that offers a lot of tips on how to protect our privacy and control our digital shadow: https://myshadow.org
 * Identifying and materialising social networks across our online and physical activities: John Fass, researcher and designer at the Royal College of Art, has created some activities to materialise our social networks and browser history <u>' ''[insert link].'''</u>
-* Seeing through the eyes of our mobile phone by installing a tool called '''openpath.cc'''. Some of our apps can see the same things. Read the Terms of Service carefully and explore if you can change the access settings in your phone. On an iPhone we can change the permissions for each app under its privacy setting.
+* Seeing through the eyes of our mobile phone by installing a tool called '''[https://openpaths.cc/ openpaths.cc]'''. Some of our apps can see the same things. Read the Terms of Service carefully and explore if you can change the access settings in your phone. On an iPhone we can change the permissions for each app under its privacy setting.
 ==== '''Controlling what we share: content and metadata''' ====

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 ==== '''Exploring our own digital shadow''' ====
-As we mentioned before, anyone can potentially access to our digital shadow – including communications service providers, law enforcement agencies and  companies, as well as groups and individuals running their own servers.  We cannot know precisely what happens to our digital shadow and that itself is a problem. But there are tools and tactics to manage our digital shadow and to limit its ramifications in terms of  profiling and surveillance.
+As we mentioned before, anyone can potentially access our digital shadow – including communications service providers, law enforcement agencies and  companies, as well as groups and individuals running their own servers.  We cannot know precisely what happens to our digital shadow and that itself is a problem. But there are tools and tactics to manage our digital shadow and to limit its ramifications in terms of  profiling and surveillance.
 Some good places to start are:

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 ==== '''What is a digital shadow?''' ====
-Our digital shadows can be defined as the stories data tells about us. These digital shadows are created by trillions of bits of data, digital traces we leave everyday when we connect to the Internet, our mobile phone and online services. Our digital shadows have a life of their own, are affected by others and change in unpredictable ways. Our digital shadows grow continuously, can be permanent permanent and we have little control over them. These traces are a spectre of our past and present activities, which melt together in a permanent and ever-changing profile.
+Our digital shadows can be defined as the stories data tells about us. These digital shadows are created by trillions of bits of data, digital traces we leave everyday when we connect to the Internet, our mobile phone and online services. Our digital shadows have a life of their own, are affected by others and change in unpredictable ways. Our digital shadows grow continuously, can be permanent and we have little control over them. These traces are a spectre of our past and present activities, which melt together in a permanent and ever-changing profile.
 ''How are these trillion bits of data created?'' The devices and the software we use to browse the Internet, access websites, connect to social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter, publish blog posts, receive phone calls, send SMS messages or emails, chat, or buy things online, all create specific bits of data about us. These bits of data can include our name, location, contacts, pictures, messages, tweets and likes, but also the brand of our computer, length of our phone calls and information about which websites we visit. These data traces can be put out there by ourselves as well as other people.