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Re: [Guide] Use Bitcointalk (more) privately
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n0nce
on 20/03/2023, 23:51:39 UTC
Is it better idea to show your ISP that you are using Tor? Don't you think it's alarming?
Is it less alarming to show your ISP that you are using a VPN?

If we wanted to go all the way, we would also have to delete the metadatas included in the photos of the narketplace's ads posted, not use an address that has been in contact with a CEX for a signature campaign (and I imagine that this is quite often the case).
Yes, I highly recommend doing these things, I consider them standard procedure.

I think the use of real words, depending on how they are used, is a not bad model.
A machine finds random letters faster than real words. Logically it cannot be just a word or two. But, a sentence, with three or four words, can be very difficult to crack as a password.

In reality it all depends on how you build your password.
Random letters and numbers can be as easy to break as a few words together.

The suggestion I always give is to build passwords that you can memorize, but at the same time are complex.

"Waterwithsaltandsugar!1" it could be someone's password, which will be very difficult to be cracked.
Well... now it's not... it's better that no one uses it.  Roll Eyes Tongue
That is unfortunately completely wrong. Your example password is extremely easy to crack. Password crackers nowadays don't brute-force letter by letter anymore, but are based on wordlists. They also take into consideration that people like to append special characters and numbers to the beginning or the end of the password. Humans are way too predictable to be trusted to generate randomness; this is a scientifically proven fact.


Privacy is not my ultimate priority but who really needs should practice all the points mentioned by OP to achieve it.
I noticed that you are advertising for Roobet; a mostly unregulated crypto casino registered in Curacao. It may be desirable for your real identity not to be linked to Roobet, due to obvious reasons.
I understand the risk of providing KYC documents to centralized platforms but it's somehow unavoidable [...]
I was hinting at reasons privacy may be of interest to you, after all. Especially in relation to your forum profile. It is possible and maybe desirable to e.g. have and use a KYC-ed account on an exchange (although I highly advise against it) and have a completely separate online identity with no ties to that account. It is not too hard to accomplish, as I outlined in the OP.