If you own guns, never talk about them or post pictures of them online, not on social media, not in private group chats, nowhere, keep your firearms ownership to yourself if you wish to continue owning them.
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@Shadowman311 Also, this should be obvious, but if you know how to manufacture or modify guns, explosives, etc DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT!!! Especially if it's illegal. It doesn't matter how brag worthy you think it is. Don't be retarded.
@xianc78 @Shadowman311 Opsec tip 101: pretend your friends are feds or will rat you out for them. That anything you say will get leaked somewhere. This isn't about guns, it's general common fucking sense.
@nk @xianc78 @Shadowman311 Here's some tips I've found over time and oh boy there's a lot:
1. Consider what every post you make would look like with your real face and name attached to it. This is honestly the most important one from experience and I follow this all the time. As a bonus learning to paraphrase things will likely convince more people.
2. Never reuse usernames across more than one site, and especially not on any website where you're making yourself a target. Case in point, making a poa.st account is riskier than making a FSE/SPC/bae.st account. Ditto with posting on kf.net (not so much kf.cc, the fedi instance).
Pick an identity from say a movie character or some shit, or something popular + random numbers, or shit go on one of those "identity generator" sites.
3. Be careful when signing up for other sites/joining other Discord servers, especially if they're balls deep in enemy territory and especially if you're going to fuck with them. Use a VPN and different email address. Common sense these days I know, but lots of people still make this mistake.
Plus, you never know which wagie working at the ISP call center that day might give out your address. Remember the very first scene in the movie Hackers once the guy's released from prison where he's calling up the guy to get access to the TV network and pretending to be a tech guy? That happens IRL a lot.
https://blog.joemanna.com/introduction-to-social-engineering-call-centers/
Or here's a more harmless prank call involving social engineering (some of the nastier PrankNet calls revolved around this too which led to $$$ in property damage and lots of charges):
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h8kWcggio5A
This is more likely with you know, tech industry centered troons and the like.
4. Get your name removed from the "people listing" sites by searching yourself. Protip: voting in many states also gets you onto these and self doxes you. Whoops.
5. This is important too, don't make enemies if you don't want them. This sounds stupid but remember, I know a crusty troon who was whining that "nazis" wanted him dead, before admitting that he was not only doxing people but sending them to his antifa buddies for "direct action". That's like bragging that you're a gang member telling his homies your address.
6. Don't namedrop too many of your interests and hobbies and especially if they're niche shit. If they're niche shit, someone from your past is far more likely to say HE'S THAT GUY.
7. Don't trust anyone too much. Ricky Vaughn (the e-celeb on Twitter who named himself after the Major League character) got doxed in part because of this, and because a lot of political scenes on the fringe devolve into purity spirals and online fights. The same shit goes on with antifa groups all the time.
Plus what if your friend gets a FBI visit and they seize his devices and find your edgy memes? Remember the guy in CVille got 419 years in prison where the evidence that it was a "hate crime" revolved around edgy memes on his phone, and the Jogger case had the same thing apply. Edgy shit that you said while angry can and will be used against you.
8. Probe files for metadata before you post them, .doc/.docx files are the worst offenders along with image files. On a related note, don't fucking click on Google Drive/Docs links unless you're in a private tab/vpn not logged in. If you're logged in it'll tell the uploader who is looking at it.
9. If you're streaming, use another PC or OS install to do it. This is another way people get doxed or have embarrassing shit (usually fetishes) outed. Ditto if you're going to be leaking stuff. If you have a work or school device ALWAYS assume it's backdoored/keylogging/monitoring you.
10. This circles back to 1, but don't post photos of yourself doing anything illegal, like doing drugs or showing off illegal guns. Of course with Red Flag laws about to pass, don't even imply you have guns or might be a part of an illegal political group. Don't put gun maker or gun boomer stickers on your car, don't open carry in Lowe's while wearing an infowars shirt.
1. Consider what every post you make would look like with your real face and name attached to it. This is honestly the most important one from experience and I follow this all the time. As a bonus learning to paraphrase things will likely convince more people.
2. Never reuse usernames across more than one site, and especially not on any website where you're making yourself a target. Case in point, making a poa.st account is riskier than making a FSE/SPC/bae.st account. Ditto with posting on kf.net (not so much kf.cc, the fedi instance).
Pick an identity from say a movie character or some shit, or something popular + random numbers, or shit go on one of those "identity generator" sites.
3. Be careful when signing up for other sites/joining other Discord servers, especially if they're balls deep in enemy territory and especially if you're going to fuck with them. Use a VPN and different email address. Common sense these days I know, but lots of people still make this mistake.
Plus, you never know which wagie working at the ISP call center that day might give out your address. Remember the very first scene in the movie Hackers once the guy's released from prison where he's calling up the guy to get access to the TV network and pretending to be a tech guy? That happens IRL a lot.
https://blog.joemanna.com/introduction-to-social-engineering-call-centers/
Or here's a more harmless prank call involving social engineering (some of the nastier PrankNet calls revolved around this too which led to $$$ in property damage and lots of charges):
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h8kWcggio5A
This is more likely with you know, tech industry centered troons and the like.
4. Get your name removed from the "people listing" sites by searching yourself. Protip: voting in many states also gets you onto these and self doxes you. Whoops.
5. This is important too, don't make enemies if you don't want them. This sounds stupid but remember, I know a crusty troon who was whining that "nazis" wanted him dead, before admitting that he was not only doxing people but sending them to his antifa buddies for "direct action". That's like bragging that you're a gang member telling his homies your address.
6. Don't namedrop too many of your interests and hobbies and especially if they're niche shit. If they're niche shit, someone from your past is far more likely to say HE'S THAT GUY.
7. Don't trust anyone too much. Ricky Vaughn (the e-celeb on Twitter who named himself after the Major League character) got doxed in part because of this, and because a lot of political scenes on the fringe devolve into purity spirals and online fights. The same shit goes on with antifa groups all the time.
Plus what if your friend gets a FBI visit and they seize his devices and find your edgy memes? Remember the guy in CVille got 419 years in prison where the evidence that it was a "hate crime" revolved around edgy memes on his phone, and the Jogger case had the same thing apply. Edgy shit that you said while angry can and will be used against you.
8. Probe files for metadata before you post them, .doc/.docx files are the worst offenders along with image files. On a related note, don't fucking click on Google Drive/Docs links unless you're in a private tab/vpn not logged in. If you're logged in it'll tell the uploader who is looking at it.
9. If you're streaming, use another PC or OS install to do it. This is another way people get doxed or have embarrassing shit (usually fetishes) outed. Ditto if you're going to be leaking stuff. If you have a work or school device ALWAYS assume it's backdoored/keylogging/monitoring you.
10. This circles back to 1, but don't post photos of yourself doing anything illegal, like doing drugs or showing off illegal guns. Of course with Red Flag laws about to pass, don't even imply you have guns or might be a part of an illegal political group. Don't put gun maker or gun boomer stickers on your car, don't open carry in Lowe's while wearing an infowars shirt.
@nk @Shadowman311 @xianc78 Another post that's important to read if you're into opsec is this post about the US Government arresting "Neo-Nazis".
https://archive.ph/plQmH
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/01/why-is-it-so-hard-to-prosecute-white-extremists
It's extremely well known that the ATF shot and killed people over a short firearm at Ruby Ridge. But they do this same shit today minus the dog shooting part. They can't legally get you for saying non-kosher things on the internet yet, so they can harass the shit out of you instead or slam you with charges for unrelated things.
The article cites a fedposter case where he had posted on a forum that he didn't just want to assassinate a government official but even went as far as telling people how he would in typical boomer fashion. This is something their targets have noticed too because the NJP website also talked about a few cases in which the FBI/DOJ would pursue drug/gun charges and brag about taking down a racist. It gets better: this same thing is also what got FPS Russia/FPS Kyle fucked over.
https://archive.ph/plQmH
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/01/why-is-it-so-hard-to-prosecute-white-extremists
It's extremely well known that the ATF shot and killed people over a short firearm at Ruby Ridge. But they do this same shit today minus the dog shooting part. They can't legally get you for saying non-kosher things on the internet yet, so they can harass the shit out of you instead or slam you with charges for unrelated things.
The article cites a fedposter case where he had posted on a forum that he didn't just want to assassinate a government official but even went as far as telling people how he would in typical boomer fashion. This is something their targets have noticed too because the NJP website also talked about a few cases in which the FBI/DOJ would pursue drug/gun charges and brag about taking down a racist. It gets better: this same thing is also what got FPS Russia/FPS Kyle fucked over.
@PhenomX6 @Shadowman311 @nk Going with tip 2, check your post style and word choice. Frequently used words and catch phrases can also give away that it's the same person. Some people also have unique posting styles like writing in all lower case or putting one sentence per line.
Using the same posting style, word choice, etc can give away your identity. People on imageboards have caught shills from other sites that way, despite them being anonymous on imageboards.
And another tip that will be valid if these Red Flag laws do come into fruition: avoid talking about politics (excluding gun rights/control) on gun/hunting communities. Yeah, it should be obvious that it's not a good idea to act like a "Nazi" on those sites, but even ideologies like right-libertarianism can be considered extreme by the mainstream. I bet some will try to disarm people who post Gadsden flags because they're often used in alt-right protests.
@nk @Shadowman311 @xianc78 I really wonder why people are dumb enough to put gun boomer stickers on their shitbox. In this day and age you're asking for someone to break into your car or to get profiled.
I remember a guy I know on Telegram whined about being pulled over for driving an E39 5 series with tinted windows. No shit, your car looked like a drug dealer car.
I remember a guy I know on Telegram whined about being pulled over for driving an E39 5 series with tinted windows. No shit, your car looked like a drug dealer car.
