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Brazil Arrests 'USDoD' Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

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35 points codewiz | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 04:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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ptek ◴[22 Oct 24 10:48 UTC] No.41913028[source]▶
If you want to play that game or the darknets game you may need to keep changing your alias which could be a problem as you will have to start from 0 again growing contacts and respect.

Do new groups and users have kick ass ASCII logos in their t-files these days? I’m glad the 90s era of incorrect capitalisation is gone.

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dmichulke ◴[22 Oct 24 11:24 UTC] No.41913206[source]▶
You could publish a key as each of these personas and then, when reestablishing a contact using a new persona, prove your identity to that one contact by using the private key of the old (known) persona.

Am I missing something?

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1. str3wer ◴[22 Oct 24 12:00 UTC] No.41913398[source]▶
defeats the whole point of changing identity if you reveal who you were
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2. dmichulke ◴[22 Oct 24 13:24 UTC] No.41914003[source]▶
You reveal it to a single (trustworthy) party that you want to reestablish contact with.

Of course, this assumes you wouldn't want to reestablish contact with a non-trustworthy party.

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3. barryrandall ◴[22 Oct 24 13:28 UTC] No.41914043[source]▶
A trail of evidence is still a trail of evidence.