"He who would keep a secret must keep secret that he has a secret to keep" - Sir Humphrey Appleby but I think he was paraphrasing Goethe
That said, opsec is (to all practical intents and purposes) impossible in the long run in the face of a very determined adversary. If they want to find you, you will have done something to give someone a lead and there will be enough pieces to put the picture together.
"He that would keep a secret must keep it secret,
that he hath the secret to keep."
Who said that?
It was Sir Humphrey.
- Who said it originally?
- Francis Bacon, wasn't it?
Next: obviously avoid biographical details. People can compile a lot of information about you online.
I wouldn’t be surprised if anybody you wanted to do opsec against had a much better version of that tool…
I do sort of wonder where that sort of stuff will go. In one hand, we’re all mostly just shitposting anyway so we don’t really need privacy. On the other, I dunno, we all enjoy being able to explore ideas pseudonymously, right? I wonder if we’ll all end up having to pass our arguments into LLMs to get any sort of pseudonymity in the future.
Every time we see someone caught it is one very solid and clear link that triggers the rest of pieces to fall into place. It almost never seems like it's a bunch of minor bits making up the whole.
Those two people are the same person.
How does that work?
It doesn't