nopeitsnothing
c5e5ae48e1
Lots of source additions here from long-standing notes over the past few
months. Squashed to make it neater than 219 commits.
- bump version to v1.2.4, Jun 2026
- expand Tor section with new "Traffic analysis and the limits of Tor" subsection
guard node persistence, website fingerprinting, and a practical breakdown of
when Tor is and is not sufficient
- expand hardware/firmware threat section with new subsections on firmware
implants, USB attack hardware (O.MG Cable, Rubber Ducky), Evil Maid attacks,
supply chain compromise, and a physical inspection checklist
- rename "Removing Metadata from Files/Documents/Pictures" section to "Metadata
auditing"; add reference table of tools by file type; expand EXIF/XMP coverage,
PDF metadata (font fingerprinting), and DOCX revision history with real-world
source identification cases; restructure subsections
- add introductory paragraph to "Your Metadata" section
- add new appendix B8: operational security failure case studies with common
threads
- add new appendix B9: post-quantum cryptography covering HNDL threat, NIST PQC
standards, Signal's PQXDH, browser hybrid KEM, PGP limitations, VPN guidance,
and Monero note
- add new appendix C1: stylometric analysis and writing style covering features
measured, deployed tools, real cases (J.K. Rowling), effective and ineffective
countermeasures including AI rewriting
- fix Dangerzone GitHub URL (firstlook -> freedomofpress)
- Remove duplicate footnote [^500]; minor wording fixes ("users" -> "people",
passive voice tweaks, cross-reference updates)
- docs/index.md: both MSK and RSK GPG fingerprints in a collapsible tip admonition
instead of bare text
- docs/about/index.md: convert Note admonitions to tip; reformat social media
links into collapsible tip block
- docs/mirrors/index.md: simplify PDF download instructions to point to Releases;
- README.md: add star history chart
- mkdocs.yml: rename site to "The Hitchhiker's Guide"; update site description
with hashtags
- sign.yml: remove commented-out workflow_run trigger and if: condition; add
verify job that runs after sign, downloads artifacts, runs verify_pdf.py, and
writes a full job summary with hashes; update artifact upload description; minor
comment and whitespace cleanup
- release.yml, changelog.yml: replace decorative banner comments with single-line
comments; fix trailing-space style in permissions block
- publish.yml: remove stale comment about nomaterial theme
- verify_pdf.py: full rewrite: replace single-hash-file lookup with flexible
resolver that checks both bare hash files (.sha256, .b2sum) and two-column
sumfiles (sha256sums.txt, b2sums.txt); add BLAKE2b verification alongside
SHA-256; fix signature extension (.asc not .sig); improve CLI (--file,
--export-dir flags; remove --all; default runs all checks); improve VirusTotal
output with direct link; cleaner output formatting with ruled separators
2.3 KiB
Welcome.
Star History
This is a guide with the aim of providing an introduction to various online tracking techniques, online ID verification techniques, and detailed guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities. It is written with hope for activists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, whistle-blowers, and good people being oppressed, censored, harassed anywhere! This guide has no affiliation with the Anonymous [Wikiless] [Archive.org] collective/movement.
This guide is an open-source non-profit initiative, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (cc-by-nc-4.0 [Archive.org]) and is not sponsored/endorsed by any commercial/governmental entity. This means that you are free to use our guide for pretty much any purpose excluding commercially as long as you do attribute it. There are no ads or any affiliate links.
If you would like to make a donation to help this project, you can do so from here where you will also find the project goals. All the donations will be strictly used within the context of this project. All donations and spendings are logged on the donations page.
Ways to read or export the guide
- In your browser: Hitchhiker's Guide (hosted site). After a local build you can also open
site/guide/index.htmldirectly. - Local HTML preview: from the repository root, with Python 3 and MkDocs Material installed (
pip install mkdocs-material), runmkdocs serveand open the URL printed in the terminal (for examplehttp://127.0.0.1:8000).