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Here's a guide on darknet safety and redundancy from some absolute FAGGOT I used to know who went by aediot. I've updated it with more useful, modern information:

My name is Aediot, I'm a darknet researcher and owner of the forum known as "Onionland"
Today I'd like to share with you a setup that will allow you to perfectly hide from every Gov on earth while allowing you to back up your data and even handing over all your passwords upon raid.
Too many times do I see the questions asked "what operating system should I use?" "Tor or VPN?" "Should I give my soul to the Morningstar?"
All very good questions.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of this circle it is often thought that sharing your setup is not inline with darknet safety.
Thankfully, I've come up with the solution.
I am thus referring to it as the "Mephistopheles Protocol"
You'll notice that it's not only crucial, but necessary, to have a setup to defend all the data you'll need to create your own darknet nym.
In my time researching darknet I've come to conclude that there are three things you need to defend this data from:
-Government
-Raid police
-Loss
In simpler terms, you'll find you need a setup that defends you from the feds online, a setup that defends you against the police kicking down your door mid-darknet, and a setup that prevents you from losing everything you've desperately worked on.
Before moving on though, I will fairly quickly address the thought process of "never hack from home!" and why this is not only a silly but a fairly dangerous idea.
If you're new to Onionland, you'll quickly come to discover that we stay two steps ahead of all threats so that if we experience one setback or commit an OPSEC sin that we can not only quickly recover but not worry about being arrested in the process.
That said.
Heading to a coffee shop or much less a public library while using Tor on a system such as Tails or Whonix (the only two operating systems that currently matter for anonymity) leaves you open in various ways.
Such as:
Timing correlation: The Government and ISPs of the world know when you are using Tor. For example if you have a darknet nym and ONLY use Tor at 6pm when you perform your work, you've just told the feds that if they move to arrest you the absolute best time to do it is at 6pm.
Raids: I think everyone has the assumption that "oh it'll be so easy for me to just get really paranoid whenever I see someone shifty approaching me". Which is a very bad thing to rely on. Feds are people. Which means they can be quiet. And they can look like everyday normal civilians if they even so desired. They walked right up to Dread Pirate Roberts and snatched his open unencrypted laptop right in front of his eyes. You're a fool if you think they won't do the exact same thing to you.
Physical trace: Cameras. Logging and recording daily. Tracking your face and making a complete fool of you. Really enough said.
As you can see, the age old adage might have been useful in past days of crime, however with modern technology and an increased aggression from the attitude of the police towards darknet and those who dwell now demand an equal amount of aggression in response.

Which brings us to the method at hand, here's a short summary:

Step 1: Purchase or create a Tor only router, then hook it to your normal router and leave that shit running 24/7.
Step 2: Set up Tails OS on a USB that you can store safely and configure it when done to NOT store ANY ssh information as persistent.
Step 3: Set the Tails password to the password of your everyday normal laptop. (Whaaaaaat? Yea I know. Bear with me though, you'll see.)
Step 4: Find a hosting provider you like who accepts XMR.
Step 5: Get yourself some XMR.
Step 6: Use said XMR to set up a server, connect using Tails and ssh, then store every darknet username and password on this machine within an encrypted partition.
Step 7: Write down the password for the server within your Tails persistent drive, but do NOT write down the IP address used.
Step 8: Memorize the IP address. This can be accomplished by writing down the IP initially, then grabbing hold of your USB and gripping it hard. While gripping it you'll notice that if you think aloud in your head the number, and do this for a few days in a row, it will be difficult to remember the exact sequence without gripping it yourself.
Step 9: Write the password for the server on at least three pieces of long lasting something. Send this to your home, to a family member, or anywhere off-site and safe since the password itself is not incriminating.
Step 10: Do all of this from home.
Step 11: ???
Step 12: Profit.

Let's break this down:

Step 1: This is 100000% required. Not an optional step. Setting up an additional router that forces all traffic to go through Tor or not at all does two big things for you. The first being that it completely eliminates the feds ability to correlate "when you're using Tor" because you're always using Tor. The second thing it does it that it means even IF you are completely rooted and fucked to high god on your darknet os that the attacker would then need to bypass your Tor router as well and can't simply just pick out your IP. Again, paranoid. Stay two steps ahead or die for your stupidity.
Step 2: Tails is the preferred weapon of choice over something like a VM or even Whonix in the current age in my honest opinion. The main and real only reason of mine being that once the USB is yanked from the laptop it quickly moves to erase all the RAM (the memory).
Which is what specialized raid police attempt to recover from if you move to shut down your laptop. Don't believe me? Google "cold boot attack" where it's entirely possible to get the password of the machine you're lovingly working with.
Step 3: I know, this one sounds silly. But I'd like you to imagine something for me, as you think about how "you'll never tell the police your password" I'd like you to realize that youare grasping the bigger picture here. Which is the simple fact that they will hold you in a cell for YEARS before they even bring you to court. All because you want to keep your data on lockdown. By making the password the absolute same as your normal OS you therefore have the perfect alibi of the fact that you appear to be doing nothing wrong. More on this later though.
Step 4: Self explanatory.
Step 5: Self explanatory.
Step 6 - 12: This is the true glory of the method. The main idea is that if you are ever arrested for whatever reason there is absolutely nothing on your darknet OS which could ever incriminate you, because it's all on a server somewhere out in the aether. And it is impossible to prove where you SSH'd in from due to the ideal of Tor within Tails.

They also can't prove that you even remember the IP, the only thing they can ask you to do is unlock the laptop. And once you do, there's squat they can do to slap you with. It also comes with the fact that you can access your darknet server from anywhere on earth so long as you kept a copy of that password off-site like I told you.
Implement The Mephistopheles Protocol to the letter, and no man will be able to touch you.
Unless you do something like dox yourself using your own words/actions, which a fair amount of you probably will.

Remember.
Use common sense.
Do not take this game lightly.
And above all, let your fear grip you and make you smarter than all other peers.