How do hackers hide themselves? - staying anonymous online

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[edrickreyes-melendez]

Great video! But you failed to mention that hackers use hoodies and glasses to stay hidden too haha

[nx]

I'm amazed that he stops to make you learn what an IP is (most basic cyber security content) but then he speeds up when the things start to get complicated and tricky.

[yourpersonaldatadealer]

Can’t tell if it’s the malfunctioning yt algorithm propagating it’s own inevitable demise or the feds wasting their time with honeypot videos again but either way, a gem of a channel and some novel content I look forward to learning.

[fliporflop]

they are in dark rooms with a hoodie on and type erratically green text on a black background, they have a world map with red connecting lines that make a sound when moving around, computer screen turns black and a bunch of pop-ups of random images with beep sounds appear and after drinking the sixth can of dr pepper they say :

"I'm In"

[kaledrutus]

Actually, Ross Ulbricht was caught through an old email that he had advertised Silk Road on in Reddit, then, when they knew who he was they traced him to a library, and then a female and make FBI agents distracted him by pretending to have an argument while another rushed his laptop, so he couldn’t press the kill code button he’d set up previously, they also messaging him through Silkroad at that exact time and caught him with his laptop open and everything logged in 😅

[mozesmegyesi]

You are not a script kiddie. Thank you for the lesson. This is fantastic.

[mohsinattiq]

Staying anonymous is one thing.. what about removing digital identity ? People who grew up in digital age and not knowing how bad things can get.. what steps can one take to wipe out this data ?

[Alex-toiz]

4:50 something worth mentioning is that installing your own vpn server on some random vps could be a security risk depending on your threat model. Federal agencies can detect your ip address is the only one connecting to that server and thus deduce the outgoing traffic from that server is effectively yours. Also, wireguard should be prefered over openvpn if you actually need to setup a vpn server for some reason.

[Lupinicus]

Good presentation and very clear, concise and useful information. As a 'security professional' (and someone interested in security since before the internet) this is exactly the kind of straightforward yet entertaining content we need more of.

[AbdulAhad-oqlz]

He’s not saying you should be a hacker but you could be a hacker 😂

[sorrefly]

6:50 don't underestimate vulnerabilites with virtualization. TailOS discourages indeed the virtualization approach because the host machine can fully control and check what's going on in the VM

[sleaf]

If I was selling bad things on the internet and I felt I was about to get caught; I’d make a YouTube channel and as such, talking about OPSEC, appear as a red herring.

Hypothetically

[drowningfish]

I feel weird about a lot of VPN's, although they claim to have a "no log policy, " I've heard of many instances in which VPN companies helped the police in finding cyber criminals.

[michellenoirstudios]

4:09 I'm glad you mentioned that VPNs introduce intermediaries. I feel like a lot of people either forget or don't know about this and perhaps don't think about it before deciding when to use a VPN.

[TimwiTerby]

Awesome demonstrations there, but personally I would have liked to see more about how criminals who use these stealth techniques actually get tracked and ultimately caught; I imagine there's a very interesting story there as well

[nizzinesworkshop]

god damnit I fell off my chair laughing when you said "security professionals like you and I"!

[bennewman]

Some people do silly things with out thinking. And then get found out

[sydniehi]

Great content man, I just found your channel and its awesome! I’m going to school for computer science, I really wanna focus on encryption and cybersecurity, so your content is an attention grabber. Keep up the good work, posting a video more in depth like what you showed at the end would be pretty interesting!

[women-mwuh]

just found your videos. i'm a sys admin looking to get into cyber security and your videos are genuinely informative and enjoyable to watch. don't worry, you're definitely not a script kiddie. i'd know, i was one lool. keep it up man <3

[Tapport]

I was waiting for a VPN ad all video. Awesome job on this, nice to see some digestible content about hacking that isn't from a conference or experts react video. 👍