The comprehensive guide for online anonymity and OpSec.

Welcome.

The purpose: 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, and harassed anywhere! This guide has no affiliation with the Anonymous ^{[Wikiless] [Archive.org]} collective/movement.

The website and projects are free (as in freedom) and not affiliated with any donor or projects discussed, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (cc-by-sa-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 including commercially as long as you 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.html directly.
• Local HTML preview: from the repository root, with Python 3 and MkDocs Material installed (pip install mkdocs-material), run mkdocs serve and open the URL printed in the terminal (for example http://127.0.0.1:8000).