Anonymous site

This page is anonymous.

Nowadays, to post any material on the network, you have to identify yourself in some way. This is especially true for social networks such as Facebook, Google+, etc. But even posting an anonymous blog on WordPress.com or Tumblr is not a trivial task. There are other possibilities, for example, Tor. But it has a big drawback - most people do not have access to it.

Among all the services and providers who want to know at least your email address, and often your credit card number, to place a page, there is one that promises to host everyone anonymously. This is a Super Dimension Fortress service . SDF allows you to register a user via ssh (and this can also be done through the Tor network), and accepts cash by mail to confirm the user. I did so - createdvoidnull user page via ssh via Tor, and sent the SDF by mail $ 1 without a return address. I turn to my post also through Tor, so it’s almost very difficult to connect me with my account.

We get an account.

First you need to install and configure access to the Tor network .

After that, access to your account can be obtained as follows:

$ ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 4 -x localhost:9050 %h %p" sdf.org

It is possible to make an alias for a command in .bashrc

alias torssh='ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 4 -x localhost:9050 %h %p"'

Information on registering an account in SDF can be found here and there . First you need to contact new@sdf.org through torssh. Answer a few questions, and after that you will have an account that is very difficult to connect with you personally. Only to enable the account you need to send $ 1 by mail to the SDF.

SDF

The service has existed since 1987, started as BBS, and now has come to a free service that provides a UNIX shell for the hacker community. Detailed story here .

Is it legal at all?

Yeah. The information on this site is publicly available, there is no malicious content. Distributing information on the Internet without revealing your identity is your right, and the SDF just gives you a tool for this. It seems that there are no prohibitions on using Tor to access your account, so it’s quite legal to have an anonymous account.

Competition

If you think you can figure me out, send a postcard to my address with the text “I see you voidnull” and an envelope with your address. The first to reveal me I will send a prize of $ 10.

Notes

- Anonymity can be achieved by other methods, for example wordpress.com accepts BitCoin for payment.
- I have nothing to do with voidnull.com, and I did not know about its existence when I registered an account on SDF
- Running a bunch of Tor points to intercept my access to my account will not work, because I use the https protocol.
- I did not lick the envelope, and if the SDF does not store all the envelopes that arrived, it is already impossible to calculate me through it.

Translator's notes.

The first time I heard about the SDF service, I did not check it myself, and I do not advertise it. Moreover, it is not so convenient for us to send dollar bills to the USA by mail. Rather, with this translation I want to open a discussion on the topic of achieving anonymity on the network, the legitimacy of these attempts and the presence of some meaning in them.

By the way, for our realities, I see a simpler way of anonymizing:
- buy a used phone and SIM card on hand from the market - buy a qiwi
virtual credit card, pay it via the terminal in cash, send data to the purchased SIM card
- pay with any credit card using this credit card a service that does not keep logs
- using this service, register anywhere
- profit! or a visit from the competent authorities, I don’t know.

So, do you need anonymity online? Is she needed at all? Maybe it’s the other way around, to tighten the conditions for being on the network, to introduce registration? Will this measure help catch bad guys? Or will it only make life difficult for ordinary, honest people, of whom the majority?