Quote from: examplens on October 01, 2020, 06:05:35 PM

btw. what is the main advantage in that even the registrar does not know who owns the domain? Of course, we talking about legal, non-fraud service on them.

My perspective: I don’t do anything illegal, so the only potential reason for any official investigation of me is harassment for too much free speech. (Yes, that is a real possibility!) But...

What about data breaches: Do you trust the security of the registrar’s internal database, such ICANN systems as may have network access to that database, and every system in between? Do you trust all employees with privileged network access at all relevant organizations? Do you know how much hacked dox stuff is sloshing around on teh darkwebz, being traded between fraudsters and identity thieves? (Not to mention the types who purport to offer hitman services.)

What about “marketing”, i.e., surveillance capitalism: Have you read every word of the registrar’s legal terms and privacy policy? Are you assured that the information you provide for WHOIS is, and forever will be, only and exclusively used for ICANN mandated purposes? Even if (if) the registrar promises that, do you trust that promise? Will you trust it tomorrow, if the registrar goes bankrupt or is acquired?

What about non-“official” criminals: From behind Tor, I have sometimes angered people who claimed to have actual mafia connections. That was probably just stupid empty bragging by them, but—why should I take that risk? Over the years, on the Internet, I have also sometimes been treated to death threats—and to lurid and graphic fantasies about what somebody out there wanted to do to my real or imaginary wife/girlfriend/children (none of your business if I have these things or don’t), my mother (sorry, she’s dead), my dog (no, he will bite you in half!), etc., etc. Why should I take the risk that any of them could be serious?

All of the above was written on or about 2 October, and stuck in my local drafts directory with many other things that get posted late or never. It seems eerie, reading it now.

More criminals: What about “SWATting”? Do you really want to bet that the scum who do this cannot obtain your information from your registrar:

Quote from: https://blog.lopp.net/reflections-upon-a-swatting/

I drove back to the entrance and told the patrol officer that his captain wanted to speak with me, so he waved me through. Upon entering the mobile command unit, the first thing I was asked was

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“Sir, do you have any enemies?”

To which I replied:

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Dear anonymous coward who just sent dozens of cops w/ rifles to my house w/a false hostage situation report: I am not so easily intimidated.

— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) October 16, 2017

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Within 48 hours the Durham Police Department told me that they had traced the call to a throwaway server in Texas but hit a dead end and were turning the case over to the FBI. I never heard from the FBI. I lost any confidence in the ability of law enforcement to protect me a long time ago, so this was disappointing but not surprising.

More more criminals: What about armed robbers, kidnappers, extortionists, murderers...? Here is a choice selection from Lopp’s list of these; do you want to bet your or your family’s lives that these types of thugs could never obtain your information from a domain registrar!?

Quote from: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

Date	Victim	Location	Description
December 29, 2014	Hal Finney	Santa Barbara , California	Bitcoin developer SWATted after months of harrassment & extortion
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February, 2015	Dean Katz	New York, New York	Bitcoin trader robbed of $12,000 at gunpoint
May 27, 2015	Dwayne Richards	New York, New York	Firefighter kidnapped, robbed of $1,100, & stabbed by crypto thieves
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July 11, 2016	Tadas Kasputis	Kaunas, Lithuania	Cryptocurrency executive kidnapped at car wash
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February 26, 2017	Rocelo Lopes' wife	Florianopolis, Brazil	Wife of crypto exchange owner kidnapped and ransomed
March 14, 2017	3 Indian Bitcoin traders	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	3 Emiratis pose as cops, kidnap victims and rob them of 25 BTC
June 17, 2017	Miyuki Noda	Gifu, Japan	Woman strangled, attacker takes 100,000 yen worth of BTC
September 4, 2017	Alexey Sherstne	Kiev, Ukraine	Man tortured for $50k in Bitcoins
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October 16, 2017	Jameson Lopp	Durham, North Carolina	Bitcoin developer SWATted & extorted
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November 15, 2017	Unidentified	Istanbul, Turkey	Gang stole $2.83M in BTC from businessman
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December 26, 2017	Pavel Lerner	Kiev, Ukraine	Bitcoin exchange owner kidnapped & ransomed
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January 14, 2018	Pavel Nyashin	Leningrad Oblast, Russia	Blogger Who Boasted About Crypto Wealth Beaten and Robbed For $425k
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January 27, 2018	Danny Aston & Amy Jay	Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England	Armed home invasion of Bitcoin trading firm owner
January 29, 2018	Unidentified	Cumming, Georgia	Five men arrested for planning armed home invasion of bitcoin owner
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February 9, 2018	Sailesh Bhatt	Amreli, India	Police Officers Beat, Extorted 200 BTC from Businessman
...	very	long	list ...

Lauda is on my mind. That is what reminded me of this unfinished post. Why the fuck do some criminal-minded punks around here get off on gloating over the unwarranted assumption that she got the cops after her?

I don’t know what happened to her; and I have been very reluctant to talk about this. I do not want to feed the rumour mill with speculation that is, on my part, negligibly better-informed than anyone else’s—for all practical purposes, uninformed guessing. But this has obviously been on my mind, the unanswerable questions.

To my knowledge, she never did anything illegal—and it was not in her character, either; although that is no guarantee against “legal” trouble, depending under what régime you live, which I do not know in her case. What I do know is that (0) it is publicly known that she was trusted to handle business transactions involving significant BTC many times over the years, and (1) Lauda had a fucking ton of enemies!

The vibe I got, which may be coloured by my own subjective adversarial mindset, was that “somebody apparently got the drop on him/her”, as mocacinno put it—and that that “somebody” was not the law. My thoughts have also run through many plausible explanations—from family things causing a desire for peaceful private retirement from the Internet (we think alike there, V8s!), to “terminal” illness (I know she would probably never tell anyone, if that—not even nobody—it’s just the way she was), to the nagging feeling that she was preparing to commit suicide (which would be not my place to interfere with—if it was that, I just wish that she had told me so we could say a proper goodbye). It has kept coming back to, Does she have enemies? LOL.

I DO NOT KNOW what happened. All I know is that she very explicitly wanted her privacy. There is nothing that I can do about it now, save to respect her privacy—and to tell dumb nasty forum trolls with zero real achievements to shut their filthy lying mouths, for their speculation is assuredly as ~~uninformed~~ misinformed as it is patently malicious.

All of the below, except for the link that I just added, was written on or about 2 October, and stuck in my local drafts directory with many other things that get posted late or never. It seems eerie, reading it now.

What about...? I could continue, but I think that I have made my point.

Quote from: bitmover on October 01, 2020, 03:00:22 AM

Quote from: nullius on September 29, 2020, 10:42:05 PM

They don’t want to know who you are.

This is the most important about Njalla. They do not want to know who are buying their domains.

Quote from: bitmover on October 02, 2020, 11:42:46 AM

If they dont know who you are, then they cant tell anyone .

If they don’t know who you are, they can’t have your information hacked, leaked, or otherwise stolen—used for surveillance-capitalism marketing and profiling purposes—or otherwise abused.

Practical privacy requires the principle of least privilege. Disclose information only on a need-to-know basis. The only information that is truly safe is the information that you never give out in the first place.

If you are using Tor, it means that you probably want some reasonably strong privacy. But using Tor to establish a pseudonym, and then giving your real dox info to a registrar under so-called “WhoisGuard” or whatever, is like stabbing a condom repeatedly with a fork, and then using it to have sex with an individual who is known to be HIV-positive. It’s just a bad idea from start to finish. With all due apologies for the graphic analogy: I really want to drive the point home here!

Quote from: bitmover on October 01, 2020, 03:00:22 AM

Sadly I already bought the domain using namesilo. I didn't know about that opition. THanks for sharing.

I have had passable experience with them, though these things sometimes change over time. Their customer service is good, and their prices are some of the best in the market. I have heard that if you use a payment card (even a legitimately purchased prepaid debit card) plus Tor, they will lock you out of your account, and you may lose money/domains. I can’t confirm that, and it never happened to me; I have only used Bitcoin with them. —You’re welcome. :-)

Quote from: LeGaulois on September 30, 2020, 09:29:14 PM

I didn't know Njalla, too bad that this site did not exist 10 years ago Roll Eyes

Another problem is that Satoshi could not pay with Bitcoin before he invented it, published the Bitcoin software, and publicized it with a website. ;-)

Quote from: LeGaulois on September 30, 2020, 09:29:14 PM

There are also Anonymousspeech (or a name similar) and Katzglobal working similar but I just know by name. Never used and don't know their reputation.

Thanks. I know of Anonymous Speech, but cannot report on them. I will look into Katzglobal someday; it is always good to have more options handy.