
Originally Posted by
TheFoX
Everything is traceable, if you look deep enough. Reminds me of Steve Gibson, when someone used a botnet attack on his website. Through patient research, log checking and a few other tricks, he finally traced the attacker to a hidden IRC channel, which he then joined after gaining channel operator status. Imagine the shock on the faces of those nameless ones, when someone popped into their ultra secret channel and said, 'Hello guys. Remember me? The guy you dDOS'd off the net.'
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the young chap who initiated the attack got ostracised by his peers, and GRC learned something new about dDOS attacks.
Now, if a civilian security expert can trace the untraceable, imagine the resources the intelligence world has at its disposal. I bet they have software and hardware that we can only dream about. If a screenwriter can dream about it, someone has already created it.
There is no such thing as anonymity when using the internet. If you truly want anonymity, you need to totally disconnect yourself from the digital world. No phones. No Internet. No nothing. Deal in cash only, and leave no trail, paper or otherwise. Even then, you have to hope that someone doesn't recognise you and inform on you. That's what happened to Bin Laden.
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