Am I anonymous?

So I bought a portable WiFi hotspot that's used only for dnm ordering. The battery stays out.

I connect to hotspot, then to VPN, then TOR. If they got through TOR there is the VPN paid with btc. If they get through the VPN and get the IP of my hotspot bought with cash, so what????

Right????


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[15 Points] None:

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[7 Points] SlappySpankBank:

If they wanna find you, they will find you. Assuming you aren't the equivalent of Pablo Escobar you'll be fine.


[8 Points] _TROLL:

Unless you're a vendor, you're just wasting your time. No one cares about your purchases.

With all due respect to the paranoid loons here, most buyers browse the markets from home, aren't tumbling coins, aren't using TAILS, aren't doing 95% of the crazy Snowden-level OPSEC some people like to think should apply to their measly Xanax purchases. And absolutely nothing happens to them. NOTHING. Find me a single buyer in the history of DNMs who has been arrested for anything other than a vendor screwup (controlled delivery).

You have some people here pushing OPSEC practices appropriate for major DNM admins onto random buyers, which is nuts. You're not Ross Ulbricht. You're not Edward Snowden. You're not a covert intelligence operative. Skeptical people are going to respond "it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you", except... they're not. If it were so easy to find DNM users, how is it that the vast, vast majority of vendors have operated unimpeded for years?


[3 Points] None:

sure but unless you're buying large quantities on the regular and/or selling, that level of paranoia really isn't necessary. I mean, even with the best vpn setup, you can still get fucked by customs, damaged packages, informants, etc.


[1 Points] PeasantOfKings:

Sounds pretty secure to me. Need an expert to verify. But my only question is, does the company providing the WiFi to the hotspot track location?


[1 Points] BrainSlurper:

The hotspot may yield your location and the info you used to register and pay for it if they get that far. Your VPN will do the latter if it is breached. Neither is likely to happen, but if you are going this far in the name of security be sure that you aren't using identifiable information with these services.


[1 Points] 1pop23:

You can never assume you are actually anonymous


[1 Points] Ande2101:

Let's assume you're Ed Snowden, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning or Ross Ulbricht, you're fucked because timing correlation attacks will get you in the end. The NSA have most of the Tor network's metadata so can find the DNM, they can work out when you were posting and find your connection to the VPN, they already have the VPN's traffic and your hotspot's subscriber data tells them exactly who and where you are. Every post gives them more information, they are recording all of it for statistical analysis.

Might as well order an orange jumpsuit now because at least that way you'll get one in your size.