> Ross Ulbricht aka Dread Pirate Roberts, the mastermind behind the infamous Silk Road site which served as a black market for drugs, weapons and fake documents was also well aware of the potential danger of stylometry being used against him. At the time of his arrest in a San Francisco public library, the FBI captured images of his laptop screen as evidence. Guess what what he had bookmarked — “Science of Stylometry.”
That's the problem - it only takes a single slip and it is recorded forever. Perfect opsec is an impossibly high bar if you are maintaining an active online presence.
Or something purpose-built like Anonymouth (https://github.com/psal/anonymouth), although it seems to be both unique and dead.
Also interesting:
> Ross Ulbricht aka Dread Pirate Roberts, the mastermind behind the infamous Silk Road site which served as a black market for drugs, weapons and fake documents was also well aware of the potential danger of stylometry being used against him. At the time of his arrest in a San Francisco public library, the FBI captured images of his laptop screen as evidence. Guess what what he had bookmarked — “Science of Stylometry.”
https://medium.com/svilenk/the-case-for-anonymity-12db114f0c...
I mean he used an forum account with an email that had his name in it.
That's the problem - it only takes a single slip and it is recorded forever. Perfect opsec is an impossibly high bar if you are maintaining an active online presence.
Only if you have a history of sending crazed writings/manifestos to newspapers and family.