Me.
Ah, the desperate cries of the shills saying 'but please mummy make the bad laws go away'.
IP interception via the NSA or any number of end-point interception attacks. I bet 95% of you hardarses are running on Windows - if you are, you're already pwned by their EULA (even Paint fucking phone homes).
Smartphone? Pwned.
Mac? Pwned.
VPN? 9 times out of 10 they divulge the IP logs. Look up what happened to 'hide my ass' proxy - they divulged to the FBI.
Tor? Pwned - Operation Playpen.
DNS provider (ISP)? Pwned.
ISP? Pwned.
HTTPS on TLS 1.1 or earlier? Pwned.
Intel CPU? Pwned. (Spectre, Meltdown + JavaScript).
ARM CPU? Pwned (Spectre, Meltdown).
Newer Intel CPU? Has IME, pwned.
IE/Firefox/Chrome/Edge (any 'older' browser)? Pwned
Newer browsers? Will be pwned (if they don't already leak data EG Chrome).
Linux - depends on whether or not it runs systemd. OpenBSD configured properly? You're in with a good chance.
Libre hardware? Even better.
You can 'scream' 'anonymity' as shills all you want.
But remember, you built and aided the authoritarian surveillance state - they literally have everything. Including when and where you connect. All they need is one weak link in the chain.
The fact you're terrified of the laws means you know you've broken them.
(GDPR offers no immunity to law enforcement as a provisio is that data for important services - EG healthcare, policing - means that data can be retained. Even without the provisio, would fall under public interest)
I'm not terrified: I don't go around posting false information or breaking the law.
But you guys sound like you're shitting your pants.
Doesn't matter if the IP is, ahem, 'hashed' (how strong is that hash boys? Strong enough you can confidently say it's secure? Obscurity is not security), you merely need a 'leak' somewhere.
Hypothetical: exploit on your browser logs every POST request you send to 8ch. Contents matched to your IP, from your machine, from your browser, and time of sending plus what is on the board publicly logged.
What could harvest that info? Windows, Chrome, an add-on with built in exploit, a device abusing Spectre on an older browser…
…you get the idea.
I know you guys aren't using Tor. Posting from Tor is disabled here. Oh, if you pay for your VPN, it basically confirms you are the owner of the IP (including free address).
Have fun!
Oh, and as a free tip, as you've seen with Trump, the pre-text to start surveillance is extremely flimsy (this is why you should always advocate privacy, and not leave fellows such as myself to devise methods to temporarily stall such incursions), once FISC approval is obtained (not required if you're foreign to America, note), then any tools of the trade can be deployed.
If you have Linux with systemd, it's pwned. That's any of the newer Linux OSes except Void Linux and parts of Devuan. BSD is also systemd free, but only OpenBSD concerns itself with security. How do I know such things? Maybe I'm a pretendfag - go digging online.
The only thing not pwned is a notepad and a pen and talking to someone in a really remote place away from any devices.
The only defense against any of this is to either not post anything that breaks the law (no wonder Trump beat Media Matters at the internet, it's clear you're fucking clueless as to how technology works), or to assume worst case scenario, believe in what you write, and have the courage - like so many others - to face the music for what you believe in.
Or use parody. Parody is a good workaround. Only applies if you're American, though, sorry foreign agents, no dice for you. And even less so if you're British (police hate a lot of twitter jokes, apparently).
There's no guarantee you specifically will be prosecuted, law enforcement resources are limited, but at the same time you might want to consider how fucking easily compromised your devices are (how easy was it to get into Hillary Clinton's servers at Google, again?).
Hell, even if you had perfect protection, only requires one social engineering attempt to succeed and you're toast.
So don't go around screeching 'but anonymity' and 'but legal editors'. There's a reason why I can tag all of my posts with a papertrail a mile wide and not go to jail.
See that name?
Not anonymous. No proxy either.
Also, not in jail.
Or sued.
Or dead.
Some places (not here), I have the audacity to sign off with my real name.
Go ahead, examine how many of the devices you use are horribly pwned or have exploits, vulnerabilities or need updates for said exploits. Then come back and tell me if you're still anonymous.
Then ask yourself if you ever got unmasked as a shill, how would that shit go down?
Remember, a lot of shills who spoke with me jumped ship. Why do you need to lie and insult people anyway? Isn't that what evil people do?
Aww, managed to flush you out of your hidey holes. How cute.
Well that didn't take long, you poor shills. What's the phrase? 'G8 b8 m8 I r8 8'?
Did your supervisors ask to inquire further so you can determine what your legal situation is and whether or not I'm right?
Remember, you paid-for failure hacks (not quite capable enough to get a journalism job doing proper reporting, but crooked just enough to spew garbage everyday on a small board), it's not whether or not you convince me if you're legally culpable or not.
That's down to the judge. And I imagine with the SCOTUS picks you might be hard pressed to successfully appeal that level of corruption.
Edging your bets on Hillary Clinton trying to do her 'surprise appearance' for 2020 isn't a very sound legal strategy - you're aware even your methodology becoming public is basically condemnation, right?
A few questions for you democrat shills to answer, just out of curiousity:
1) If you believe in discrimination laws, why do you act so hostile towards people you don't know the nature of and accuse so speculatively? Isn't this a violation of your beliefs?
2) You appear to want to use freedom of speech, and yet try to stuff hate speech laws down everyone else's throat to censor theirs. If you're so supportive of freedom of speech, why create laws which are literally becoming your own noose?
3) If you hate guns so much, what's with the armed guards at your rallies?
4) If you believe in open transparency, why do you do everything in secret?
5) If your issue is fake news and lying, why willingly lie yourselves? Truth doesn't come in the form of a pre-written corporate script.
6) If you hate corporations and shady dealings with foundations so much, why do you work for one?
7) If you're paid, how do you think they earn that money?
8) If you're a volunteer, why do it under the banner of a political party and not independently so you're not subject to peer pressure to forcefully conform?
9) Do you agree with everything on your scripts? If not, why not? (No need to answer that one, but an answer would be nice), if so, what evidence does it supply to back up it's claims?
10) Do you agree a nonpartisan outlet should be directly influenced by an organisation with a clear political bias or side? If not, why claim CREW is nonpartisan when it doesn't involve any Republicans, independents, libertarians or green party members?
11) Do you take the job to support a family, or is it purely for your own ends? Why not take another job? Or did this pay you the highest compared to other jobs in your area? Who do you think was responsible for the issues with the jobs market? Corruption within politics?
12) If you favour socialism, how do you plan to fund this? Especially considering the +$140 trillion dollar debt?
13) Is gender or skin colour the sign of a competent leader? If not, what is? Who would count as 'qualified' in your book? Someone who merely supports your views? What if a qualified person was to disagree with those views? Would you listen, or just ridicule?
14) How far do you think subterfuge will get you before it gets exposed? (In some cases, it already has, BIRDDOG).
15) Do you think the 50/50 split was a protest at the mishandling of Bernie Sanders? Especially given the reasons for the Electoral College vote? If so, what have you implemented to prevent another popular candidate (EG Bernie Sanders) from being ousted by Super-PACS in your primaries?
16) If you've pre-settled on Hillary Clinton for 2020, is that truly democracy, given how people have shown you how they felt about her? Do you actually have a viable alternative candidate? Have you even looked?
17) You called Trump a warmongerer, but so far peace overtures in North Korea and Afghanistan has disproven that (with the possibility of other diplomatic overtures), especially given the former is unprecedented, would you consider the statement to be inaccurate, and if not, why not?
And no, I'm not available for recruitment. Any attempts to do so will be exposed. That is all.
>If they stalk you, or do anything else unlawful, that's an individual event
Proof you haven't studied law. Police can initiate an investigation, arrest, prosecution with or without the victim's consent (having the victim consent just means you get an eyewitness). Do you really think domestic abuse victims want their 'loving husbands' to go to jail?
The fact I'm even here has raised your profile tenfold. Do you realise how many keywords I just dropped?
>This is set up for anonymity. Period.
The device you're posting from is not.
Also, 8ch runs on an outdated version of PHP, which if you might recall, even Apache has it's problems.
You also have a leak issue ID-wise. Need to check if an IP is an ID? Simply spoof a post and see what ID it returns.
You can trust in the board's security (which you've never seen). Question: have any anons ever gone to jail?
Ah, the salt. Beautiful. It's a pity this wasn't an actual troll attempt.
Didn't even touch the questions. Nice.
No multiple personalities here Mr MPD.
I find my ID to be very consistent.
So what you guys all scared of if you aren't shills (falsely accusing other people of being shills)? If you're not a stalker shill who does political advertising on the sidelines breaking FEC laws about disclosing political affiliation then you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
You seem pretty angry about laws aimed at getting shills in jail.
Shall we watch to see if Trump adopts my suggestions?
Ask yourself, how did backpage go down?
"The chief executive of Backpage.com, a website investigators have described as an “online brothel,” pleaded guilty Thursday to California money-laundering charges, while the company itself pleaded guilty to human trafficking in Texas."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/12/backpage-com-ceo-plead-guilty-in-california-texas-and-arizona.html
Money-laundering? Man, the technicalities you get criminals on these days.
Also, might want to inform your supervisor and CEO they'd be breaking RICO if any of you committed crimes under their behest.
Although usually pursued by law enforcement, RICO can also be pursued by a sufficiently well funded citizen army.
But as you're not breaking any laws (although you might have committed a crime against comedy with your terrible meme selections - wot, no willy wonka?) and you're all independent posters who act on your own whims, that will be of zero concern or relevance to you, right?
It's not like any other democrat funding pedophile peddling outlets go taken down on a technicality, so I guess Media Matters has absolutely nothing to fear in my remarks.
I'd love to hear what your proposed legal defences would be. You're aware claiming to be anonymous (John/Jane Doe filings are a thing) isn't going to get you very far in a dock, right? I presume any shill attendence will be with a paperbag over your head and all legal filings signed by 'Mysterio'?
Qchans have nothing to worry about, they're not posting anything dishonest and I imagine Trump likes em anyway (they're more than welcome to improve their own privacy and security and I encourage them to do so). But shills would shit pants. Shills aren't very technologically savvy.
So, hows Windows 10?