Privacy & Anonymity

Here's the complete guide to building your own VPN for pentesting — from quick WireGuard tunnels to full multi-hop infrastructure. This is a guide on how to build your own VPN for hacking.

Here's the complete operational guide to acquiring a burner phone, from planning through disposal.

For a truly anonymous burner with strong OPSEC, here's a guide on how to create an anonymous burner number.

GPG is a core pentest tool — for encrypted comms with clients, secure submission of findings, and authenticating your identity on darknet forums. Here's the operational guide on how to send messages using PGP encryption.

For pentesting and OSINT, burner emails serve distinct purposes: registering on forums without burning your real identity, receiving phishing test responses, signing up for trial accounts, or creating sock puppet personas. Here's what actually works. Here's a guide on how to create an anonymous burner email...

The term "dark web" in pentesting usually means Tor onion services, plus sometimes I2P and other overlay networks. This is how to actually find and navigate .onion services safely during an engagement. This is a guide on how to access the dark web.

Here's a modular spoofing framework built on Scapy. It handles ARP poisoning, DNS spoofing, MAC spoofing, and DHCP rogue server — all from one script. This is a guide on creating a custom spoofing script.

Setting up an onion service is straightforward — it's just a web server behind Tor's rendezvous protocol. The actual work is configuring it correctly so you don't leak your real IP through misconfiguration. Here's the complete operational guide and article on how to create an onion website.

This is the most critical topic for anyone doing darknet research. Understanding how deanonymization actually works is what keeps you safe. Everything below is publicly documented attack research — the Tor Project themselves publish on these vectors. This article is on de-anonymizing darkweb users.

Here's the real comparison between Tails and Whonix — not spec sheets, but what matters when you're actually doing research. Tails Vs. Whonix

Maximum anonymity in Tor Browser goes well beyond the default settings. Here's a complete hardening guide.

Here's the step-by-step setup for Tails OS, which includes the Tor Browser as its default and only browser.