How Tor Users Get Caught By Saying Too Much

In this video I discuss how Hackers using Tor get caught by divulging too many details about themselves and how they conduct their operations in chats.
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[@Silrak50]

The greatest security risk is the one between the keyboard and chair

[@tailsorange2872]

Objection: It's not the one between the keyboard and Chair... It's the one between the head and the keyboard. As long as you are not giving the wrong head (pun intended), and your head is in the "right sockets" - you should be fine. Probably. Maybe.

[@fochdischitt3561]

Also known as a SEU.

[@lynxlagoon]

I knew my cat was a fed

[@eriksiers]

Pebkac is a real thing.

[@Ultravenom1]

I knew my little buddy was a fed.

[@sk8kman]

Thanks, as a tor user, I've been having trouble getting caught. But this "how to" video helped! Typing this in the gulag rn

[@poisonouspotato1]

You already messed up by having a google account

[@Krems_]

You already messed up by being born in the 20-21 century

[@Abu_khalid1]

​@@poisonouspotato1 I mean you could separate yourself into two different identities using different devices and different usernames

[@poisonouspotato1]

@@Abu_khalid1 that works too

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

​@@Abu_khalid1 But not through Tor. If Google lets you have an account through Tor you need to link your phone number to use it.

[@gogogomes7025]

TDLR: Hackers should get a life outside of hacking so they don't feel tempted to make friends with other hackers.

[@truthdoesnotexist]

sadly having no life and being a loser is a requirement to becoming a hacker, making real friends or going outside is out of the question

[@77wolfblade]

@@truthdoesnotexist Attachments lead to the dark side!

[@Guardian_Arias]

@@sminem6572 "ooo la di da, I can read" Show off....XD

[@Splarkszter]

​@@truthdoesnotexist It is for any criminal, white hats can be cool people.

[@PrestusHood]

​@@truthdoesnotexistnot true at all

[@pavementstoneguy]

Bottomline: Don't brag in public about how much money you are making as the neighborhood's unlicensed pharmeceutical salesman.

[@xxArsen1xx-OnPsn]

I personally knew a couple of the low level guys caught in DEA operation Adam B0mb, which targeted Farmers Market/AdamFlowers- they literally never shut up about it and went to the post office daily to pick up a large package and drop off smaller ones, tweaking constantly on MDMA. Turkish mafia connections got it to Canada then to them for further distribution. The rest is honestly more than I should know and definitely shouldn't talk about. Absolute morons tbh 😂

[@cherubin7th]

Never brag about how much money you make in the first place. Envy Socialists will harass you.

[@billsmith30]

Unlicensed Pharmaceuticals? Never. Only Herbal Remedies officer!

[@pluto8404]

​@billsmith30 its just Peruvian tea extracts sir.

[@ryelor123]

Don't brag ever. Every time someone brags about something, I always assume they're lying.

[@KrokLP]

Tor is a great aid in my illegal ex-yugoslav arms smuggling operation 👍🏻

[@M1szS]

relatable

[@timmygoldstein]

@@user-hm9is5ke9i dude, are you the type of idiot to not understand anything online?

[@gasergaser8629]

got any extra m70s ?

[@0x00official]

@@user-hm9is5ke9i he's joking

[@hansjuker8296]

Sooo...anyone know about any hating going on? I'm just one of you guys...and was wondering if anyone knew about some illegal activities I could be a part of...

[@jaimeortega4940]

You don't ever say anything to the cops without an attorney present and you never give consent to search anything again unless your attorney is present. Common sense.

[@zeemzero2880]

Great advice ! Also if the cops persist with a search you can say " I do not consent but I will not resist ", this doubles up your protection and puts the burden on the cop to prove why they did this in court.

[@Orthaluminox]

Well id love to agree but common sense usually refers to things that are common. And even for a person who's dad sells meth the amount of times I've been involved with the police given the 26 years I been alive I would say that kind of information is not so common. So it's most definitely not common sense.

[@thenotoriousmichaeljackson8938]

@@Orthaluminoxself snitching

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

​@@thenotoriousmichaeljackson8938 it isn't illegal to be the son of a durg deller

[@seronymus]

There's a great funny classic video by a lawyer about this on here

[@TheTraveler33]

It never ceases to amaze me the mistakes that otherwise brilliant hackers make. As for the guy that got caught by saying he was busted for weed, give out info like that, but make sure it's a lie. That way they will spend time chasing lies and not find anything.

[@myname-mz3lo]

didnt realise this channel was about protecting and giving tips to criminals . i thought it was about privacy from a citizens standpoint . who cares if they get caught . they scam old people and ransomware hospitals . let em rott in jail .

[@user-wg2vw3mz1v]

In short, the most important aspect of OpSec is the old navy adage: Loose lips sink ships

[@chubbycatfish4573]

This reminds me of that scene from the Simpsons where Mr. Burns and Smithers go through very elaborate security to get to a special room, only to find an old ratty screen door open.

[@seronymus]

​@@klwthe3rdwhich episode was it?

[@AM2K2]

@@klwthe3rd Thanks - just watched the scene 🤣

[@thomasrussell4674]

​@@seronymusit's the one where they go on strike

[@rorsie]

The thumbnail shows how much Jerma's physical health has deteriorated after he got caught managing that black market drug operation :(

[@honor9lite1337]

Jerma? 😮

[@iCookCrystalMeth]

they do look a little similar don’t they

[@MandenTV]

Too much zerking off

[@LM-MMM]

literally clicked on this to ask why Jerma was in the thumbnail lmaooo

[@Tokmurok]

​@@iCookCrystalMethAll vtubers look alike.

[@thenew4559]

Whether you're a hacker or just a standard citizen, I've always been of the opinion that more people need to follow the old internet rule of never giving any personal information out online. It seems like ever since the rise of social media, and now every website requiring you to sign up with email and other verification info, people have completely forgotten this.

[@nwerd7584]

True but depending it could be just as unsafe IRL. If your going to commit crimes I would suggest not telling anyone anything, not even family. The most successful usually dont have a "home" so as to not be recognized. It could be some mundane fact about you you told someone that ends up leading them to know your name and all that. On the streets a little harder with anon names, but if that gets connected to you or your name. its all the same. Lots of the street dudes flip fast, and half of them informants that will still break the law themselves trying some in to thinking its ok because he's breaking the law in a show solidarity or something.

[@thenew4559]

@@nwerd7584yeah, it goes without saying that you should definitely keep attention away from yourself in real life as well. That’s even more important.

[@user-wg2vw3mz1v]

In short, the most important aspect of OpSec is the old navy adage: Loose lips sink ships

[@thenew4559]

@@user-wg2vw3mz1vyep

[@frederikkjrgaard1963]

@@nwerd7584 on internet this goes if you aren’t commiting any crimes aswell tho

[@MyDarkKnightRisesWhenISeeU]

First rule of F̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Tor Club: Don't talk about F̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Tor Club

[@Deleteyourself83]

Second rule of F̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Tor Club: Do NOT talk about F̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Tor Club

[@AngryWoodenFork]

Best Comment! Cheers

[@skylinetv2778]

███ rule of ███ Club: Don't talk

[@w4439]

"what's Tor?"

[@triPixel]

​@@skylinetv2778⬜⬜⬜ rule ⬜⬜⬜ : ⬜⬜⬜⬜

[@smoothbrain4384]

i once ordered 400 oz of black market eucalyptus on the dark web. good shit.

[@darkcoeficient]

Was it black markket because it paid no taxes?

[@tombear2675]

In Minecraft ?

[@skramzrave]

That's fed time interstate commerce

[@ImperiumLibertas]

​@@darkcoeficientFED FED FED FED

[@ishid_anfarded_king]

imagine being that poor

[@xy97503]

48 Laws of Power, Law 4: Always Say Less Than Necessary. Besides creating an impression of great import, saying little avoids the risk of saying something foolish, which can be costly

[@nattyfatty6.0]

Who cares what some list of "how to be a psychopath" says?

[@manitoba-op4jx]

tor network also has really good legal uses too. my friend couldn't find a specific plastic knob for the original radio in his 1977 oldsmobile 98, and i managed to find someone selling reproduction ones on there. 😃

[@JohnDoe-jk3vv]

Now why were they selling something that specific in the tor network?

[@1p2k-223]

cool

[@killingtimeitself]

perhaps you're just a curious fellow interested to see what kind of goofy shit is on the tor network. Or perhaps you're just a huge tech nerd and love contributing to dark nets because it's like the pre capitalized internet, where everything is sterile.

[@3lmi__319]

because theirs a dark charm to Tor market places

[@pbjandahighfive]

@@JohnDoe-jk3vv Proprietary parts. Imagine a company makes something and owns a patent on that thing but then the company stops making that product and the specific part with the patent becomes impossible to find. It's not a complicated piece but it can't be legally reproduced and sold because someone else owns the rights to the design. Enter Tor. The part can be made and sold and while it's not really "legal" for the person to make it and sell it and probably not really legal to buy it, it would still be legal to actually own it, so so long as you aren't caught in the act of knowingly purchasing something illegally reproduced you can play dumb once you actually have it in your hands and there would be nothing illegal about actually owning it.

[@jaesdarkness]

Look, the cops don't really do much police work. Those insipid cop shows, where there's an investigator who investigates? Copaganda. No, cops get lucky when somebody shoots their mouth off, then they threaten that person and get them to violate their own civil rights by snitching on themselves, and then they make you snitch on your friends. Worst part? They'll promise that if you cooperate you'll get less time in the Scumbag Warehouse, which you'll find out at your sentencing was a total lie. Thanks for pointing out Basic Opsec.

[@MicahThomason]

That is a good description of local law enforcement. The FBI, while maybe not rocket scientists, is probably a level above that.

[@cherubin7th]

@@MicahThomason FBI only gets active if one of their friends is angry about you. But if you are a friend the FBI will destroy the evidence for you.

[@apuapustaja1]

@@MicahThomason domestic law enforcement agencies do infiltrate and try to get you to do stuff to damage your politically/socially/economically aligned movement. FBI killing black leaders like mlk and malcolm x or getting people like tim mcveigh to orchestrate a bombing whose supplies appeared out of thin air with no possible method of tracing them despite proof presenting otherwise.

[@compositeur8455]

Your lawyer makes the deal with the cops not you.

[@ronanKGelhaus]

​@@MicahThomasonYou're right. The FBI will just straight up plant evidence/entrap, and the other agencies will kill you without cause.

[@bacalhau_seco]

for the best opsec, take your vocal coords so you dont speak too much. let me know of it works.

[@gudneighbour]

and melt your keyboard so you can't write too much

[@ekay4495]

And go live in the woods without any technology@@gudneighbour

[@M1szS]

OPSEC keeping you big as hell

[@AdrienMelody]

I’m just gonna avoid illegal activities personally, this sounds stressful as hell lol

[@barongerhardt]

Then you won't have anything interesting to talk about.

[@myname-mz3lo]

right ? i thought this was a privacy channel not a crime tutorial channel

[@AdrienMelody]

@@barongerhardt Buddy, if crime is the only thing you find interesting, that’s on you 🤣

[@barongerhardt]

@@AdrienMelody whoossssssh

[@AdrienMelody]

@@barongerhardt “Whoosh”? Bro, include a punch line or make the irony noticeable next time, how was I supposed to know you were joking? 😆

[@user-df8cc1ec5e]

100% agreed. Best OpSec is to not say anything at all. And if you really need to say something, make sure you lie about everything and occasionally contradict yourself about your personal information. Today I'm from Germany, tomorrow I'm from Vietnam.

[@glebglub]

and if you're american, force yourself to use words like colour and specialise etc. since otherwise you just come off as american since nobody else had their version of english devolved like that thanks to cost-cutting in the printing industry

[@Robot-Overlord]

The way I explain it to people is imagine youre on a shopping website and you go over to a filter and select your options for a new pair of shoes. Every specification for those shoes limits the total options. Blue/white, Running, adidas, slip-on. After you put all those in you go from 100 brands to 10. Well this is how say the FBI finds you. You tell a story or talk in bits with people every bit of information narrows you down. "I went to wegmans with my parents and grandparents after I got off work at the autobody shop, theyre used to shopping at publix, but they liked the store" Thats narrows down their list of suspects drastically. We're looking at someone who probably lives in the northeast because he shops at wegmans that has family in the south/southeast because they shop at publix, works as an automechanic, parents are likely not divorced, grandparents are alive, so likely younger than 50, etc etc.

[@davewxc]

There was a supposed saying on the inquisition that has gone around in variations: "Think much, say little, write nothing." Same applies to this, writing is the act of creating evidence against yourself.

[@aleksanderczajka6072]

"Simply shutting up is so much more important" And yet it's so much harder to do.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

For a lotta folks, the Entire Value Prospect of the internet is Having A Place To Not Shut Up. Many more it's at least half the point.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Anyone who's considering using a VPN with Tor out of paranoia would be better served by just adding one more hop to their Tor circuits, which is a setting you can change. It's allowed to be up to 8, that's like 5 VPNs! note: the extra hops can see the circuit is longer than normal

[@kaptain1477]

Where in the settings

[@honor9lite1337]

never doing anything from your home/working network is far superior opsecs than any added layering hops.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

@@honor9lite1337 The Feds say that 100% of the time, when someone is doing something on a coffee shop network, and they go door-knocking, the suspect confesses. Lol.

[@Anton43218]

​@@honor9lite1337you don't live in an uncivilized country where your house is maybe the only safe space you have

[@Mystic_Void]

Does ToR not have exit relays? Can you not just read all the unencrypted data from the exit relay in that case?

[@Humble_Merchant]

Also gotta say, anyone who claims to be 'Anonymous' is a liar in this modern age

[@e3.14c4]

"I'm on a moose" (but with a thick accent)

[@hansjuker8296]

Saying you're in Anonymous now...is like saying you're in FAZE clan.

[@myname-mz3lo]

it was a lie back then too lol . anonymous were a psyops .

[@sampletext9426]

only powerful rich people are anonymous

[@blackieblack]

It was a lie back then too. The whole point was there were no members. It was just fun to claim credit as anonymous.

[@_modiX]

Most people have an ego and need to brag about their stuff, that lies in the nature and only the most disciplined can come over that and become true Chads. They won't be praised, they won't be recognized, but most importantly, they won't get caught.

[@honor9lite1337]

Understood.

[@Mr.SnakySnake]

You basically just summarized the whole “Breaking Bad “ plot

[@excalibro8365]

@@Mr.SnakySnake Maybe if you're talking about Gus and Mike. Walt had a gigantic ego and couldn't just keep his mouth shut about Gale not being Heisenberg.

[@aboostedkia1385]

Hack the world!!!

[@lolwtnick4362]

exactly like the left today

[@hombre356]

Two things come to mind. Pride cometh before the fall and loose lips sink ships.

[@honor9lite1337]

Well said.

[@TheRedOGRE]

Learnt the loose lips sink ships lesson as a teenager. Glad I learnt it then. Dumbest move bragging or talking about your ops.

[@nattyfatty6.0]

Aphorisms come before saying nothing interesting

[@AngryWoodenFork]

Hahaha, I can't believe folks have to learn this the hard way when it is common sense. Always make an opsec plan and stick with it. If you have to say anything about personal stuff, always go with a total random non related answer. Hello from Nauru, love your channel!

[@seronymus]

Do you really live in Nauru, the smallest country in the world?with only like 1000 Polynesians?

[@user-db2uj9vc7s]

Or maybe don't say anything

[@henryhermes]

have you ever lived in Arizona or are there layers to that?

[@hoovysimulator2518]

In Finnish, Nauru means laugh :P

[@megadog_]

Nauru? Hey, I am in the Pitcairn Islands. We’re practically neighbours!

[@MicahThomason]

I even pay attention to my verbiage and syntax while commenting in dark areas. Syntax idiosyncrasies is what got the Unabomber busted.

[@karlmadsen3179]

That...... and the bombs.

[@MicahThomason]

@@karlmadsen3179 Well, that, too. I guess.🤪

[@rpm10k.]

​@@karlmadsen3179no, he literally only got caught because his brother read his manifesto, recognized his writing, and contacted the FBI.

[@ilikemitchhedberg]

You can't eat your cake and have it, too.

[@ilikemitchhedberg]

@@karlmadsen3179 His brother recognized specific phrases only the unabomber would use, and then he called the fedrales. (*as used in the famous manifesto printed in the papers.) it seems that ole Ted's opsec was super solid, especially considering that the fbi was much less sophisticated at that time.

[@hung8969]

Took a fantastic class a few months ago. Kinda a brief overview of just personal security. What stuck with me the most was. “If someone can sell water they can sell your data. Imagine if you could walk over to your neighbors house, dip your hand in the stream and know everything you’d ever want about them. You’d have wrinkled hands. Same goes for the internet. Your stream of constant date is a trail of you. Leaving any drops of water anywhere results in a river eventually.”

[@notafbihoneypot8487]

Spyware at the speech level, Perfect

[@delta3244]

When the point of speech is to be heard, hearing can hardly be called spying. But spies will certainly be happy if you hand them the information they want on a silver platter.

[@fus132]

Spyware in the brain

[@TrickyNekro]

Choosing prison to end loneliness is rather an odd one and very unfortunate also.

[@skramzrave]

I keep seeing people post their DNM shopping carts on substance discords and its driving me crazy.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

FBI isn't coming after buyers, not really

[@xxArsen1xx-OnPsn]

The dumber and more obvious they are the less likely dem boys ever have the time to go after you. The ol "I dont have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun my hiking buddy" 😂

[@imgladnotu9527]

its almost like they want to actively get caught

[@quirkyqwertyto1055]

that shit sounds so insane that it couldve been a mini psyop to comprimise their opsec

[@bickyboo7789]

I feel like that should be a reason to ban someone, so a phallic measuring contest doesn't start popping off.

[@Erosuorc]

Loose lips sink ships. I’ve known that & was taught that before I did a single questionable thing as an older child / young teen. Blows me away when people are doing high profile things in their own right, yet completely forget that cardinal rule

[@honor9lite1337]

Noted.

[@zuffin1864]

If I were to do anything illegal, I wouldn't be talking about it

[@wednesday567]

It depends on what it is, illegal aliens are doing illegal shit and they get a pass

[@xdeathcon]

It's always the same stuff when these people get caught. They get too comfortable while doing illegal stuff. The ones who don't get caught don't bring up any true information about their real lives and treat their hacker identity as a completely separate person who may even need to be replaced by another identity if things get too spicy. You don't hear stories about the smart ones, though, because they don't get caught unless they're *really* wanted by the government.

[@specthegod]

Thank you Kenny! Please make more videos like this AND mainly more videos on the topic of keeping our privacy in check and locked down as much as possible... you have top shelf knowledge on the matter and in a war where our privacy is soon to become thing of the past, as ISPs and others invade privacy to sell information to the highest bidder... we really REALLY need people like you on our side... so please KNOW you are really important in that war. I thank you for all you have done and will do 🤝🌹

[@Vanlifecrisis]

Notice how all throughout that court document they talk about how he always connected to tor and went online through tor. Just that, so just being connected to tor or any sort of privacy measures will be used against you like it means you are guilty of a crime. That's exactly how the gov views you wanting privacy from them.

[@mpi1191]

Man do i love this channel. I mean the content for me it top-notch. And also the community that watches them and comments on them is also pretty good, in the sense of containing some pretty interesting stuff on their comments.

[@obeseoverlold]

Tor is like an onion; it has many secure layers but strong fluids can still get through

[@alilsadalilmad]

facts

[@HyperionStudiosDE]

Ogres are like onions, too.

[@christophersmith2696]

Industry standard is to provide info / access to info on an as needed basis only. This also applies to criminal activity. I have always said the best way to get someone’s personal info / passwords is to simply ask them for it.

[@ergosum5260]

I got caught because I confused tor with The Onion.

[@xinpingdonohoe3978]

That's funny, but what did you get caught doing?

[@timmygoldstein]

@@xinpingdonohoe3978 Doing some trolling, he's now an employee there

[@honor9lite1337]

​@@xinpingdonohoe3978kidnapping a cat.

[@Matt_Foley]

Catnapping.

[@itlahic566]

in my bad days, id always see people get taken down due to EGO/in fighting or bragging. Greed and fame is always the downfall.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

What would be the point if not for money or ego

[@mowsie2k492]

Yep it was always some in fighting in the group literally every time

[@merelynominal]

Thank you, my favourite hacking channel 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I'll be using these tips in my next operations

[@Clownacy]

"Cooperate or we will take your family away from you" - The "good" guys

[@mh3225]

did you expect them to suck him off or something?

[@justinwatson1510]

In general, the state exists to protect the interests of the ruling class; under a liberal "democracy," that means unless you are wealthy enough to buy a representative, no aspect of the state exists for your benefit. Even Roosevelt, architect of the New Deal and one of the most beloved Presidents in the history of this godforsaken country, only did what he did to protect idiot businessmen from themselves and prevent a communist revolution.

[@MrChristianDT]

Technically, "cooperate, or when we get proof of what you've been doing, you will be punished accordingly &, by pure happenstance, this other thing would also happen."

[@SneedsterSpeedster]

I despise the feds but this situation is perfectly understandable. "Cooperate or else you'll be in prison, and since your cousins will have no legal guardian left we'll be forced to put them into foster care."

[@CoachMikeyStudios]

Sabu is a nice guy. I emailed him years ago and he actually replied. He seems much wiser. He is working hard to put his life together and working in incident response. I respect him for what he did.

[@atomicskull6405]

Directional antenna and open access wifi hotpots are very useful things. With a directional antenna you can connect to a wifi router from miles away.

[@user-xl5kd6il6c]

I'm not sure I agree with this one People should give information away, but to the point where fake information is well mixed with real info. That way no one will be able to connect the true information and you have plausible deniability if they use the typical "you said X", when you can point to yourself saying Y, W and Z which is provably false, making the information (even if true) unreliable and unusable Using a lot of aliases and connecting them to others that aren't yours is also a good one. TL;DR: The key isn't not sharing information, but sharing enough noise that makes anyone investigating you waste time and get into no conclusions about anything

[@honor9lite1337]

The reality is different. When you're a high profile criminal, you can't think like a normal and constantly being in stressful conditions. You would have slipped info here and there.

[@lightyagami3492]

This post should be pinned. Connecting your "anonymous IDs" to other real IDs or other fake IDs is better than not goving any info at all.

[@user-xl5kd6il6c]

@@honor9lite1337 you can slip here and there if most info you give online is fake Bonus points if you can fake info that leads to someone else

[@twynb]

there was a pretty good (german) talk about opsec at 35c3 & my favourite quote there is "OpSec: Alice und Bob halten's Maul." ("OpSec: Alice and Bob shut up.")

[@BenDover-_-]

I’m not sure how I haven’t been subbed, great informational video outlaw❤

[@markf8819]

The video was very informative

[@BurgerKingHarkinian]

And unfortunate

[@ajramirez77]

So I got a Master's in National Cybersecurity Studies. In one of my classes of threat hunting/internet crime, the course also took a dive into psychology. Ego is a bitch. It's the downfall of many, and will lead to bad opsec, which will lead to someone getting caught

[@222wheelsdown]

Just subbed. Such a cool and informative channel. Keep it up bro!

[@glennchartrand5411]

You should also take advantage of every slip up by the people you are with to learn their identity. 1. It will show you what not to do. 2. Your lawyer willl have something to bargain with if you get arrested.

[@pbjandahighfive]

Talking "too much" can also be used for obfuscation as well so long as you're smart about it and "stupidly" let out a little too much information about yourself sprinkled here and there with the caveat that all of the potentially identifying information you share is completely fake. It would likely be obvious if you went too far with it by crafting some sort of outrageous fully detailed backstory, but if you just let small details leak out a little over here a little over there over a long enough period of time (i.e. don't sit there in a chat for hours and hours sharing your fanfic, but instead share like a dozen or so small "details" over the period of a few months) it could result in fairly strong misdirection.

[@AbandonedVoid]

Doing this can divulge real information. If the details are all fake, then that can help with the process of elimination once someone realizes it's all made up information. Sprinkling real information in there could also backfire, as it could still be enough to identify you after everything is combed over carefully. It's probably best to just not say anything at all

[@pbjandahighfive]

@@AbandonedVoid You're grossly oversimplifying and not looking at the big picture. If the details are vague enough that it couldn't possibly narrow down on any one person, but instead throws attention across a swath of say millions of potential people it won't get them any closer to detection and they also won't be able to rule any of them out, but it will lead them in a bad direction, wasting their resources, time and efforts. And say they do get the point of ruling out a few million people. Okay? There are over 8 billion people on the planet, about 75-80% of which is over 18. You'll have wasted their time following bad leads and even if they figure it out it still leads them no nearer to anything.

[@camaycama7479]

The thing with Intel ME is that it's very hard to know if you've monitored by it in a targeted way. The very subtle network trafic generated is not yet reverse engineered.

[@AnimeKingKaz]

NSA owns most of the Tor exit nodes and an exit node can read all the traffic through it.

[@stigcc]

Not if it is encrypted properly. But knowing which hosts you use can trace you down I guess

[@m_gnet]

Wow the deepfake is really getting better goodjob

[@pedro33226]

I couldn’t even tell if this was MentalOutlaw or an AI version.

[@samuelese22]

xD

[@VaultCord]

love these types of videos, keep it up!

[@lukejones7366]

You're awesome dude. Lol. Simply shutting the eff up 😂

[@13thravenpurple94]

Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜

[@chrimony]

Good advice on mouth security. In regards to TOR, it's biggest weakness is timing. For example, you do something noticeable from your dorm at 1:37PM using TOR. Then police go looking for TOR connections from your dorm at that time. Hello search warrant.

[@danii7584]

hmm while the general argument seems valid, one might still say that they got caught slipping up socially after they satisfied technical security requirements, so pointing out how infamous hackers got caught because they couldn't keep their mouthes shut might be a case of survivorship bias.

[@amergingiles]

Shit. I had no idea WHY Saboo snitched. That's rough. They pulled some wild shit.

[@myname-mz3lo]

just because law enforcement isnt allowed to hack people in order to make arrests (and it means that the only arrests they make are caused by bad opsec) . doesnt mean that activists and journalists and whistleblowers wont have corporations willing to pay hackers to do more illegal things to deanonymise them .. not everyone that wants privacy is a hacker or a criminal . some people will have entire state backed hacker groups after them and for those people propper opsec is important and the technical details do matter for them .

[@DiogenesTheCynic.]

First thing Joe says to the crew in reservoir dogs, don’t tell anyone your Christian name, where you have been, where you may have done time, or a bank you robbed in St. Petersburg. Don’t say shit you don’t need to if you are trying to stay hidden.

[@uppishcub1617]

Tech snitches, tellin all they business. Open up in court as their own star witness.

[@e3.14c4]

bada doo doodoo

[@zeemzero2880]

Facts

[@ChArLie360115]

Do you see the perpetrators. Yea right here. Fuck around get caught set my friends up for years

[@DingoDIDeatmybaby]

Complacency kills in the workplace and in hack chat rooms. Thanks OSHA for the safety tip.

[@papakamirneron2514]

Well honestly, intel ME could get everyone (even if you’re using tor or i2p) deanonimised. Now yes, so far we don’t know of many instances of someone getting found out due to it but at some point, when technology becomes physically inescapable and BCIs commonplace were are going to be living the nightmare.

[@mowsie2k492]

Then what’s the next plan? Jfc

[@Kyller3030]

@@mowsie2k492 disable it where you can but... The play is to discredit it to the public. It has tons of vulnerabilities, the one in the news right now is 27 ish zero days in Tesla. Last year a team made a jailbreak to give people free premium features (because tesla wants a sub for things already installed in the car.) pwn2own is going on rn and they're showing off tons of stuff, they already got over a million dollars from bug bounties.

[@AncientSlugThrower]

sabu was a fed from the start.

[@dereklathan]

I remember reading Sabu got caught because he forgot to connect to vpn one time.

[@sss-tm6ro]

You make a lot of great points in this video. Sometimes you want to give your political opinions and that desire is definitely the most probable way of talking yourself into trouble.

[@scottbrady6240]

I love learning, thanks!

[@ClickClack_Bam]

1970's IRA Poster: “Loose-talk costs lives. In taxis, on the phone, at footbal matches, at home with friends, anywhere! Whatever you say - say nothing.”

[@IMBlakeley]

My old dad years ago "it stops being a secret once anyone else knows it". Still true.

[@sibeck5024]

to be fair, most people with such "specific" political views just cant shut up about it. So he was basically a victim of his circumstances...

[@radthadd]

Commies and anarchists 😂

[@imgladnotu9527]

>anti racist >anarchist >has the need to flex that he owns a macbook the memes write themselves.

[@stripes9386]

Anyone who watches Mental Outlaw is automatically on The List

[@andrewharrison8436]

It's disapointing how opsec basics had been missed in these cases. You wouldn't write a crime drama with clues this blatant.

[@isheamongus811]

Tails will prevent an accidental file share. You would have to move it on a external medium or directly to LUKS2 partition (NOT recommended)

[@danohen1997]

Could you do a video talking about data removal services like Incogni or Aura? The premise seems great, but depending on the execution, also seems like it could be counter-productive.

[@paulblart3464]

This would be cool, or at least add this topic to a video on bulk data or smth.

[@Fractal_32]

I feel like a proactive solution (not sharing anything) is better than one of those retroactive solutions to your privacy. Once your information is out on the Internet, it’s out there whether that’s on public facing databases or private databases.

[@carter0000]

I second this! Would love to see a video on this topic

[@lightyagami3492]

​@@Fractal_32Yeah but its better than just saying oh well and leaving it out there (at least publicly anyways)

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

​@@Fractal_32And what if, say, someone's parents blab too muchly? What if the info gets out, and is out, and you're past the point where "Proactive" is a meaningful word anymore?

[@MadGamer_666]

So greatest security is being completely antisocial. Great I am on the right path. ✅️

[@volcanic9159]

finnish national bureau of investigation has claimed to successfully traced monero, can you do a video on that?

[@user-wg2vw3mz1v]

So, in short, the most important aspect of OpSec is the old navy adage: Loose lips sink ships

[@mikesmith6838]

My late uncle was a prison guard at a medium security prison. He said only stupid people got caught. When I asked him how he know that, he answered "Because they only send me stupid ones."

[@axiomfinity]

TOR exit nodes can be running a sniffer to log the unencrypted packets for phishing...

[@GerhardTreibheit]

When has that ever resulted in someone going to jail. If anything this is just gonna be used for metadatacollection for the NSA

[@MicahThomason]

Respectfully, I think you missed the point of the video.

[@stonelightning8d965]

​@@GerhardTreibheityes lookup how cybercriminals with good opsec get caught

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Use https

[@axiomfinity]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 I do, I have browser configured for https priority.

[@surveyingfleaproductions]

I thought this was going to be about phrasing, syntax, punctuation and word usage; or even keyboard rhythm tracking.. But, I guess common sense is in dire straits and people are far less paranoid than I am.

[@lightyagami3492]

That would be a good video all on its own.

[@glebfirstov1988]

As youre watching this in the present there are people that have succeeded where they have failed.

[@lucaskingofcheese2334]

Gotta love the thinkpad collector at the start

[@jefersonlemos4135]

1 - dont be selected as a target to 3 letter agencies; 2 - good tech

[@turtlewax3849]

The real question is.... How can you be an Anarchist AND a Communist?

[@massgrave8x]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism

[@Xotchkass]

You just have to be dumb. Like any other communist.

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

I guess the same way you can have liberal dictatorship in the US and the EU.

[@SirSpence99]

Brain damage. Though the Communism already implies brain damage or malevolence.

[@MicahThomason]

Thank you.

[@KaiRaphixx]

Even the tor documentation states that the best you can do in terms of ops sec is not technical nature but your own behavior.

[@henrygreen2096]

I'm not going to lie, I feel like such a fool not realising that last point you made around ~13:00. That anything used against you will be written down, and anything 'for yourself' said will [most likely] be thrown out. That shit is so scary and now I see the importance off having your OWN body cam/phone camera footage whenever you can.

[@brandishwar]

"Loose lips sink ships".

[@zigorro3478]

I always find human error to be a humourous bastard, remember the silk road guy having his laptop yoinked by the feds while he went to piss in library toilets lol

[@PuffinPass]

You have the right to remain silent, the ability to stay quite is most peoples problem.

[@niceasta]

useful tips, thanks bro!

[@vapeymcvape5000]

How to tell if someone is a virgin? They use the word 'Op-Sec'.

[@DanielNerd]

TLDR: don’t brag about illegal stuff to your hacker friends

[@thegaybear]

Hi, I have a question for you. I have watched many of your videos and I know that Intel has the Management Engin hidden in the chip and AMD has the PSP but does ARM have anything? How secure are AMD Chips?

[@Eddies_Bra-att-ha-grejer]

ARM is made by several different manufacturers so that varies, just like how x86 is made by two manufacturers.

[@josephbehanzin]

Interresting !

[@mikeg1433]

Isn’t the NSA hosting a ton of TOR routers though?

[@stigcc]

Really? And the routers know the ip of the users, I guess? But if you communicate over https they cant see what you are writing, but they can see what sites you are using?