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Staying Anonymous

Postby Clever4ever » Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:51 pm

Hello,

There is something worrying me when it comes to *cough* weird fetishes *cough*

And don't get me wrong - if I wanted to bash on anybody from this community I wouldn't be writing on Eka's.

For reasons I cannot reveal (yet), if supposedly I wanted to share something, I just want to make sure I will stay anonymous. I am having a difficult time suppressing myself and keeping this fetish a secret. But the last thing I want is to someone use my works (and their topic) to blackmail me.

I just want to make sure that I am not found out before I try to share anything with this community. I don't like being a leech. How can I make sure I will stay anonymous here?
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby MysteryFuto » Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:56 pm

don't post anything about your identity

problem solved
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby rabbidrabbid » Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:58 pm

Don't reveal your name. Use a fake name if you need to. Most times, it's perfectly fine to show your face because this fetish is so niche, most people in the regular world wouldn't come to this site anyway, but if you feel safer not showing your face, try covering it. Other than that, I think you'll be okay.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby sweetladyamy » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:21 pm

Proxies and VPNs (the latter has free options but they're less than ideal) are good net traffic encryption tools.

ThioJoe on YouTube has some helpful videos explaining how those work in greater detail.
(I'm sure there are other YT tech channels that also can help but his I thought of readily)

Making sure your avatar isn't of you, using a pseudonym, changing your router settings, stuff most people should already be doing but don't because of reasons many, but the most important thing is that you are prepared to defend yourself should worst come to worst. If you're exposed, make sure to expose them, or make it sound like their minds are already in the gutter for looking in the first place.

Fight back against idiocy. Or, you know, don't be covert in the first place. I'd tell my potential employer that I have dark places in my mind, but that is only my business.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby bela » Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:54 pm

Remove personal info from the files that you post here. Check the file's "properties"
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby rarrawer » Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:44 am

It all depends on the level of security / secrecy / anonymity / justified-paranoia you feel is acceptable.

Unique username, password, and email account with it's own unique password for every site you sign up for.

Use an overseas VPN to avoid your ISP/government sniffing your traffic; the idea with this is that international cooperation is then required to track anything back to you, so that you have to do something serious before anyone goes to the effort.

If you can tolerate some extra lag, TOR is an option for additional anonymity, but you have to be careful not to share anything personally identifying through it as there are many exit nodes that sniff/observe what leaves through them, some government-run and some privete (e.g. creditcard detail snatchers).

Don't use an avatar picture across multiple sites. Avoid having one to begin with if possible.

NEVER connect directly from home without a VPN if you care about privacy, since this opens many more vectors of identifying you. For example: every webserver in common use keeps logs of who connects to it and what they request for diagnostic/maintenance purposes.

Remember that the web browser you use passes on plenty of information about how it's configured to websites to let them tailor their content to it, and websites can gather more using javascript.
Simple example: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Remember that cookies are a thing, and that ad networks LOVE to use them to gather data on consumer habits.

And these are just the things I can simply think of off the top of my head.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby EnderDracolich » Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:31 am

Clever4ever wrote:How can I make sure I will stay anonymous here?


Well, it's always a risk, but as long as you don't use the same username/passoword/avatar you use on other sites (ESPECIALLY ones with your real identity, such as social media!) on here, and you don't post identifying information, you should be as safe here as anywhere else on the web.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby Apex » Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:57 am

Lots of what I can only imagine is terrific advice on keeping digital records of your passing a secret. I get the feeling that might be a bit more than what you're looking for, though?

My first thought is regarding the "yet" in, "For reasons I cannot reveal." Don't reveal the reasons. Ever. There's no need for you to do so and espousing on even minute details of your personal life can theoretically get you "discovered."

Beyond that, it sounds to me like you're planning on putting your creations on the site so if that's the case, then my advice might change slightly depending on if you're a writer or an artist. Artists have it rougher than writers because it is a lot easier to look at an image and immediately recognize it as drawn by a particular person. I'm sure many of us have seen a cropped thumbnail in the "recent posts" section and immediately known our favorite artist has just posted new content. If YOU draw things and someone from your personal life sees one of your vore images and notices the style is similar to yours, they might ask questions. I feel the chances of such things are slim, but things get around on the internet. Keep that in mind when posting work, I guess. If it's REALLY a problem for you, try changing your drawing style? Probably far easier said than done, but I'm not an artist and can't help much in that regard.

I feel writing is much harder to connect to someone but I know some people that have read things and said stuff along the lines of, "Yeah, you can definitely tell it's their style of writing." Add to that the fact that text has a much smaller following than images and text ALSO doesn't tend to get passed around like images do (you'll probably never see a story end up on danbooru, for example) it's less likely for someone in your personal circle to discover it. However, as bela mentioned, text documents can have your personal information attached to them (I guess all files can? Hm.) so double and triple check the properties tag on anything you want to upload here to make sure your real name isn't in the "author" or "last saved by" section. Though I also use a very old version of word, so results may differ.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby Chameleonette » Fri Dec 14, 2018 11:18 am

As has been mentioned already, I'd recommend using a new name/alias that doesn't associate you with anything else. That's what I did and five years later, no one that knows me from my other internet identity has figured anything out (that I'm aware of). And that's even with a 'recognizable' art style (and my writing style, to some extent).

You just have to decide for yourself if it's worth the risk or not and take what you deem as necessary precautions to prevent any leak of your identity or strong connections being made between them. It's actually not as difficult as it sounds if you're careful.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby ShadesofBlack » Fri Dec 14, 2018 11:40 am

Geez this sounds familiar.

The feeling of paranoia you describe used to be really intense for me as well. Partly because I grew up among VERY conservative family, one of whom overheard something about vore once but didn't connect it to me, and warned me to stay away from "those people" because people like that were "sick in the head." And partly because I'm non-conformant to societal gender norms for my gender, and this place was one of the first places I explored expressing myself the way I chose, but at the time I was terrified that any of that info might come back to my family, too.

In the long run, I got over it. Ultimately, it only really matters if people find out about your kinks if it matters to you or if they are super judgey people. Not that I walk up to random people and tell them what I'm into, just over time, I stopped worrying about it as much. I suppose having to be closeted for a while about an identity facet that people literally get killed over helped put things in perspective for me. Not saying you shouldn't feel how you do, of course, just saying, it's possible to get past if you want to. It does take time though.

I used to be pretty extreme in how careful I was here and on other fetish sites. I still don't post any pictures or my address or anything, but I used to be STRICTLY an anonymous, amorphous online presence. I would literally never post anything factual about my RL at all here. I had two or three ways I would clear files and my web history and such, and I knew that it was far from perfect, but it was the best I could manage. Since, then, I've gotten a lot more open about who I am etc, just still being the basic careful because this is the internet, and I've still never had anything come up to bite me elsewhere. I'm open about my kinks to all my sexual and romantic partners, and quite a few of my close friends, though that took me a while to get comfortable with, but it helped once they started being open about theirs.

Of course, I suppose all of this is providing you don't suspect that you have someone actively dedicating themselves to finding blackmail material on you. Anyways, hope some of that perspective helps you in your own journey.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby Artemis » Fri Dec 14, 2018 12:47 pm

I've followed simple rules ever since high school classes taught me how to be safe on the internet.

Do not post your name online. (Facebook only enforces its real name rule if someone reports you, so just stay away from drama if you insist on using that imho terrible website.)

Do not post any pictures of you online.

Do not post your location online beyond the country level.

If you keep a strong barrier between real life and the internet, that's as safe as you can get. Obviously, you can make exceptions for private online stuff such as buying stuff online. Just... don't buy vore/fetish related stuff if you have any doubts about the seller's respect for your privacy, or at all, is the simple answer to that. At this point, only your government/isp is capable of unmasking you and that's only if you want to subscribe to the idea that they are out to get you, which they probably aren't. ...Unless you're pirating or torrenting stuff. To be safer, I would also recommend not illegally downloading any vore or porn related content. Additionally, just don't torrent any vore or porn related content in general. Torrents are bad for your privacy and it's not that uncommon for companies to snoop on torrents and threaten you over copyright violations, which would, in a worst case scenario, result in a court case and a public accusation. Some fraudulent companies even bait people into legally torrenting things just to accuse them of pirating it later. While illegal, it still carries the same risk. They tend to do this with porn for the explicit purpose of using your embarrassment against you to encourage you to settle out of court.

Proxies and stuff like that are largely unnecessary unless you have additional reasons to believe you're going to run afoul of the law, which nothing on this website does. (At least as far as the USA is concerned anyway.) Our government largely simply does not care about dumb stuff like fetishes and cannot be bothered to keep track of you like that. ISPs, while far from being our friends, are motivated entirely by money and therefore generally only start caring about what you're doing when a government court twists their arm a bit.
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Re: Staying Anonymous

Postby MechaSharkZilla » Sun Dec 16, 2018 4:44 am

ShadesofBlack wrote:Geez this sounds familiar.

The feeling of paranoia you describe used to be really intense for me as well. Partly because I grew up among VERY conservative family, one of whom overheard something about vore once but didn't connect it to me, and warned me to stay away from "those people" because people like that were "sick in the head." And partly because I'm non-conformant to societal gender norms for my gender, and this place was one of the first places I explored expressing myself the way I chose, but at the time I was terrified that any of that info might come back to my family, too.

And this sure sounds familiar to me.

Have a semi-liberal family, but live in a hilariously Conservative area, while also havinv full on gender dysphoria, and only display that online with my secret accounts. Which, honestly, is the one more likely to ruin my life than this fetish.

OP, if you're worried about it, just follow everyone's advice and keep all personal info off of the internet with your accounts. If you're an artist, make intentional stylistic differences between your fetish art and your regular art. And for the love of god, don't post any photos. With the rise of image lookup services, it's way too easy to find people with that.
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