Be secure as an Online Creator
What it takes?
First you should be very clear about whom you are hiding from? If you just want to hide from your audience for eg. that’s way easier than hiding from the platforms you will be using.
Lets see what steps we can take to be secure:
Platform-side anonymity
Accounts should be created with alias email, alias phone number and a cafe wifi. And should be connected with a VPN at home and office.
Audience-side anonymity
Just have top notch OPSEC, I have detailed this in my recent eBook:
What is your name?
You should come up with a fake name or some brand name that you will use everywhere online.
You can generate a fake name based on ethnicity and demographic here.
Where are you from?
You don’t have to lie about everything, you can just twist the truth or have a vague answer. “I am from Central America” works.
Have a PO Box in your home country and have a forwarding mail address worldwide, I recommend this service.
Email
Use an encrypted email, I recommend skiff or protonmail. And setup an email aliasing service like anonaddy or simplelogin.
Phone Number
I recommend jmp.chat as a voip service provider, DM me for a free month! Though it may be difficult to setup (but its 100% worth it). Another option is mysudo, for my EU friends giffgaff is nice.
Setup Signal & WhatsApp with that number as well.
Telegram can be used as well, just hide your number and optimize the privacy settings. Use Private chat wherever you can.
Secure your Accounts
Prevent Doxxing
How to do Ecom?
You can setup prep centers and have inventory in UK and US warehouse. Shipping would be handled by Amazon. Use aliasing information here as well.
Payments
Stripe with anonymous LLC
Voice
Clown Fish Voice changer
Digital Footprint
You should browse your timelines and delete stuff from time to time, Don’t use same phrases offline and you can paraphrase text with this tool.
VPN
Ask your prep center for a remote machine if they can give you one. Otherwise Cafe wifi work. If you are desperate you can use VPN+Mobile Proxy.
OS Setup
You can setup a browser like brave in a sandboxed environment like sandbox pro on windows.
Metadata Removal
you should remove all metadata from your media uploads, I have written all about this in my eBook. But here is an excerpt:
Use these applications just before sharing any media online, this should delete all metadata about the file but be warned the file itself (pixels in the image for eg) may contain some information that may be traced back to you.
Android
Exif Eraser - https://github.com/Tommy-Geenexus/exif-eraser
Iphone
Metapho - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metapho/id914457352
Mac / Linux
Mat2 - https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2
Windows
watermark removal – you can use ffmpeg for removing logos in videos, use history brush in photoshop for images, for pdf’s just copy text to txt file, save it and export to pdf from there.
Cloack your photos from AI - http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/