I recently put together a detailed opsec guide that covers practical steps for reducing your digital footprint, securing communications, and avoiding common pitfalls people make when trying to stay private online.

The goal was to create something that’s actually useful and not just the usual “use a vpn and tor” advice. I tried to break down realistic methods that can help both beginners and people already familiar with opsec.

Id love to get some feedback from the community - what’s missing, what could be improved, and if there’s anything you disagree with.

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Perhaps an addition to your guide: Although I have not tried it myself, I hear it is quite easy to run local open-source AI models. By instructing the AI to reformulate your texts whilst adopting a certain personality, one should be able to efficiently protect against stylometry. This can even work with realtime chat.

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Local ai models can help against basic stylometry, but they’re not a silver bullet. Advanced stylometry doesn’t just analyze wording - it looks at sentence structure, punctuation habits, even typing cadence. If you just run text through an AI rewriter without changing behavioral patterns, you’re still traceable.

AI can be a tool, but relying on it blindly just shifts your fingerprint rather than erasing it.

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