You know we're in war. You know your enemy wants to find out who you are
DON'T LET THEM
Key things to remember on GA.W:
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Stay Anon & don't go doxxing yourself.
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Don't reveal your identity. We don't know, or care who you are, just what you bring to this battlefield.
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Don't give out your personal information in private messages, posts, or comments.
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Examine your post and comment history and delete anything that breaks your anonymity today.
Key things about using the internet
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Don't reveal your real IP address - use VPN's, or tor.
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Create personas - Be Jim Bob the potato farmer from Boise, Idaho from 07 hundred to 14 hundred, then prefecture Philippe Petit from Paris, France from 14 hundred to 21 hundred. Research their lives, record their lives so you can refer back to them and make them real to anyone who wants to believe.
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Use browsers or tools so scripts on the web can't identify you.
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Don't let any site trick you into thinking a new security is for 'your safety' and they require your personal details. Control that yourself with password safes, and don't hand it over.
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Never link your accounts to one another, and keep separation.
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Remember cell numbers are tracking codes - give them away only if you want to be tracked!
Tools to use
Operating Systems
Open sourced BSD or Linux based distributions, even privacy based live disks like tails, are much better than big-tech OS's like Google/Apple/Microsoft-based OS's
Web Browsers
Same rule applies here: big tech = bad (no Edge/Chrome/Firefox), go for open sourced, like chromium, mullvad, or Tor browsers. If you can't use those, then try use script blocker extensions you trust, like uBlock or NoScript, and learn how to block all the scripts you can so you're not leaking information. Test your browser at sites like:
https://ipleak.org/ , https://ipleak.net/ , https://www.expressvpn.com/dns-leak-test , https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 , https://ipx.ac/run , https://dnsleaktest.com/ , https://browserleaks.com/webrtc , https://www.expressvpn.com/webrtc-leak-test , https://test-ipv6.com/ , https://www.perfect-privacy.com/en/tests/check-ip
See what is being revealed by your web browser, and if you see something you don't like, work to harden it so you aren't providing more information you need to
VPNs
VPN's are worth the money you pay for them. They act as your ISP, and will permit you to use many locations around the world. This protects the IP you are given by your ISP and keeps you safe to a degree, provided your VPN is trust worthy.
TOR
The TOR network is a network of many privacy minded users, and it lets you hide your IP, and come out of random nodes from all around the world and use the internet. You'll have to prepare yourself for a lesser experience though, and mostly search and post on sites like GA.W. If you attempt to access your normal online accounts at big tech you may be marked, so use throw-away accounts.
Passwords
Use a password manager like https://keepass.info that stores your info in a locally encrypted file. Remember: using online 'cloud' password storage tools is you saying "I am ok with someone else knowing my secret information". The nice thing about these password managers is it can help you keep track of multiple ID's (like Jim Bob and Philippe Petit), and you can build 100's and 1000's of personas with intricate details of their fake lives, which you can store and never forget.
Identities
Always remember to follow the Key things about using the internet section when using the internet, and create new identities for sites you can use. For example, connect via VPN/TOR, go to a site you want to create an account in. Head over to to generate a new temporary email, then sign up at the site with that email, but leave the mail window open. After you get signed in verify the account with the same window you have opened, your account will be verified. If the site requires SMS you may not be able to proceed unless you get lucky with a a temp sms site. But don't waste too much time working around SMS, just don't ever give up and decide to give your own SMS #. After you sign in you may want to add a profile picture to make yourself look like a real person, like this person, who does not exist, which you can refresh many times until you get a picture that you feel matches the identity you created. Don't forget to save this information to your password file!
Cell Phones
That SIM card in your cell phone is a tracking device that tells everyone where you are right now. Your best bet is to remove your SIM and always treat that device like an enemy (The same with "Alexa" or "Google" or anything with a microphone hooked up to the internet: VOICE ID IS A REAL THING)
Your best bet is to also use VPN and TOR on your phone, and only use it when connected via WI-FI.
It may be best to use 2 phones.. one for you, and the other for your personas. Keep them separate, so you stay safe!
Good luck staying anon
These are all very good tips for the vast majority of users here. Thanks for sharing.
For some of us though, like myself? The enemy knows exactly who I am, and they knew years before this website ever existed... Our friends in MilInt know exactly who I am too. Hell, for all intents and purposes they made me who I am... Given who my father is (was) they (including the enemy) were probably watching me years before I even started to wake up.
Maybe someday you guys will also get to know exactly who I am too.
We'll see...that's not my decision to make....
Oh the stories I yearn to tell.........
P.S. if you ever find patterns in the Q drops, follow them knowing that your life might change and become far weirder than you could ever imagine. Oh, also make sure your wife is on board too...I forgot that step... Thankfully she is now.
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I’m in the same boat with you most likely in that I’ve been on their radar forever due to family, and the reality is any of you can be too if the state actors really want to find out who you are. To a degree I had figured out a while back how easy it is for them to track someone down, and then Snowden verified that and even more.
Be prudent and don’t just give out exact information willy nilly online, and use security where you see fit. That protects you from non-state criminals for the most part just like your door locks will protect you from petty crimes of opportunity, but the reality is if you are connected to the grid in any way the derp state can find out who you are if they really care to.
Your only real security is they just don’t have the manpower to directly harass every single person that is snapping out of their mindspell.