jones 🦇🔊 @jonesusHchrist

Aug 10, 2021 • 26 tweets • jonesusHchrist/status/1424920063870521344

THREAD: How to DELETE yourself from the internet and

become a digital ghost.
Step 1: Preliminary Requirements

Go through each email you can think of that you've used in the past 10 years.

You'll want to recover them if you've lost access, so that you can access other websites
you may have signed up to using them.

Step 2: Deleting old accounts from forgotten services

Use the search function on your e-mail and look for phrases such as "Sign up" or
"Welcome"

Recover account and login into each service that pops up (that you received a sign-up
email) from

Step 2b:

Now look around the service for a delete account function, google around by
searching ``"delete account" + "<service>"

If there isn't one, google or look around for a support e-mail to request for them to
delete your account.

Step 2c:

For some services, you may want to purge all content and messages before you delete
the account, as the account may be archived and a hacker or external entity may
access this information at a later date.

That's something to bare in mind.

Step 3: Checking if your information has been compromised already.

Now you should have a list of all your usernames and all the services, ranging from
streaming services to e-mails.

You need to use something called boolean searches to properly use Google to locate
this info

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Step 3b: I'll be using ``s to denote normal quotations, as you will need to use the
normal "" signs to perform these searches.

You need to google your account name

"<account_name>"

Sometimes maybe your account name + password like so:

"<account>" + "<password>"

Step 3c: You should see possibly pastebin links or underground databases publicly
accessible on the internet, or possibly leaked private information.

This is normal. It happens to a lot of services.

Note down what passwords/information was compromised.

Step 3d: Some database leaks are a bit more private and are still being shared/sold in
private circles, but you can use this website:

haveibeenpwned.com

To check if you've been compromised, so you can change your live information to be
different..

Step 4: Removing yourself from Google.

So now you've deleted your Facebook accounts, but when you google your name and
location using boolean searches, there is cached information/links about yourself.

There is a solution for that, called the Google Console.

Step 4b: You can use Google Console at:

https://google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

You can request for them to delete/update their search engine (which usually takes
months organically) to remove those cached results if you provide a link to each.

Go through various google searches and do this

Step 5: Protecting yourself against Google legally tracking you (for the most part).

You should be disallowing Google to legally touch any of your data

Here you can go through each of Google's services:

https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols
Step 5b: Protecting yourself against other services

Any other services you wish to use, you need to strip down the privacy settings to the
absolute core.

If you want to use Facebook, make sure you make it almost entirely private, so people
can't access private photos.

Step 6: Deleting old e-mails

Now you've just access to your old e-mails, it's time to delete them too.

Delete any e-mails you no longer need access to

DO NOT DELETE E-MAILS YOU MAY NEED IN THE FUTURE.

If you do need them, change security questions and password.

Step 7: Securing accounts

You should be REGULARLY changing your passwords on services every 6 months

Why?

Because new hackers gain access to new databases daily, and they'll start using that
information to brute force, or in the future, to personally attack you.

Step 7b: Do NOT use any passwords similar to each other.

Hackers are smart. Especially when it's a personal attack.

They will easily combine your old passwords with your home address, or date of birth
to accomplish finding your password to something they need.

Once they are in, some services will give them access to EVERYTHING and it's damn
near impossible to get them out after they are in.

Good news is a lot of services are updating this, so that you can only have one session
active at once.

Before you never knew who was in.

Step 8: PROTECTING your internet connection.

You should be using a VPN when using the internet.

DO NOT use a VPN when dealing with banking services or anything confidential, but
do use it when publicly surfing the internet.

Using DuckDuckGo in combination with this will help

Step 8b: Using a VPN that has no logs.

You need to make sure your VPN has had a PUBLIC audit to ensure that it has NO
LOGS.

this means that it has no record of what you have used their internet connection for.

And when you use a VPN, it's hard for your ISP to know either.

Step 9: USING Burner accounts

You should be using burner accounts on known intrusive services such as Google by
using a fake name and information.

This is LEGAL and you should do it to avoid having your information data mined
across services.

Step 10: REGULARLY deleting your internet content.

You should be regularly deleting your tweets and old photos.

This data can be used against you to cross-reference your accounts and find more
personal information.

Hackers will find a target and analyze them for months.

Step 10b:

Hackers will use your old internet information to do some of this analyzing in
retrospect to piece together who your social circle is to find a vulnerability.

Anyone can be attacked. You just haven't been a target yet.

Defend yourself through prevention.

Step 10c:

Don't believe me?

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In September, a Japanese man was arrested for reportedly stalking a pop star and
attacking and groping her at her home, according to Japanese news organization
NHK. Allegedly, this man found the woma…

https://theverge.com/2019/10/11/20910551/stalker-attacked-pop-idol-reflection-pupils-s…

This is nothing. Very simple with the tools EVERYONE has access to today.

Step 11:

Basically all "background check" websites have a a way to opt out. A basic Google
search for that company will give you the link. This is something that needs to be
revisited as they aggregate data from the original sources like YOUR VOTING
RECORDS AND USPS.

wow this thread blew up. a few things, i’m not a cyber security expert or claim to be
any person of that sort, just grew up online. there is a lot more to this and doesn’t
make you invincible. this is just a good starting point and makes it harder for
someone to find you.

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