How to scrub my digital footprint of sketchy activity/interests?

No, just have a history with psychedelics.

Officer, i just think dark net bible has some neat info about pgps.

FBI won't track you for ordering drugs online, they are here for the big sharks, so you just have to have the right amount of opsec for what you do. The very basics: Don't reuse usernames, passwords, emails, etc. Try not teaching the algorithms online you "like" certain content, don't be political and don't engage in discussions in public comments, etc. You just have to separate both sides. The mistakes you made in the past can't be erased, delete everything you can and start again. Also, if LE arrests you, they won't dig deep enough to find out your preferences and flag you as suspicious; that would only happen if you are someone of big interest. If they know you bought drugs, they know but not by your interests.

look at ur threat model. are u a darknet vendor? thats gonna have very different opsec needs from someone buying drugs from a DNM every so often. Are u buying an oz of meth here n there or are u trying to get half keys of cocaine shipped in? the opsec needs will be very different. if ur just buying drugs here n there, even if its ozs or hundreds of pills at a time, thats small fish. the cops are not looking for u. if u get 200 bars shipped in every week n sell all of them on the street n someone snitches on u for selling pills, theyre not going to dig through ur search history. when i say search history I dont mean your browser history. i mean the deep search that would reveal websites your IP has connected to on the clearweb. this is the sort of thing that should only concern u if u are hacker going after high-profile targets with ransomware or plan to become the biggest fentanyl supplier in ur area, that sort of thing. if ur just buying drugs to sell to a few people locally or for urslf, dont worry about it. u can never see the future, so right now u may not have big plans like that but one day it could unfold like that. in that case i still dont think that a trip to the DNM bible matters. that is extremely circumstantial, and the type of investigator who would uncover something like that would only ever be looking there and that hard if u had already made MUCH bigger mistakes. if they did someday discover that, it would only be an ever so slight reassurance to them that they are looking in the right direction. its not proof or evidence of anything

This is very helpful, thanks! No, not a vendor. I just didnt know how about what lengths LE will usually go through to uncover information on buyers. I was kinda worried after reading the section in the dark net bible that talks about getting fucked by past deals even if they cant find evidence you ordered recently. But is sounds like they wont dig that deep and theres nothing to worry about unless it was really recent and not disposed of.

Useful info, thanks

You can't scrub it, but you can change the way you behave and be smarter.

There is no magic pill. Collect all, decrypt/use/abuse later.

Deleting your existing accounts does not help in any way,

as much of it has been collected and stored.

Personal devices can be upgraded to newer models,

sanitized/sold or reset/re-install old ones

(check out data carving methods and try it yourself).

Stop using Telegram for this kind of stuff. Use Signal to exchange cat photos ;)

Linkability - one piece of data linked to another piece of data. You trying to remove the links

will be visible.

Metadata = content.

Liberty & Freedom = Privacy now.

Off-line you are:

- daughter/son to your parents

- pupil in the school class

- friend to your mates

- team player on your hockey team

and in each role you behave differently.

On-line you need to also adapt and behave differently.

Read the "Permanent Record (autobiography)" by Edward Snowden from 2019 about his leak in 2013.

Watch Citizenfour from 2014 documentary by Laura Poitras at least, there is more if you look,

this could be your start.

If you want to be 100% sure (convenience is where people fail, don't be lazy or complacent) you need to

completely separate your other on-line life.

- one that supports your corrupt country, police dep., etc. and its patriotic [to fool the system]

- other, what ever you want to be ....[don't tell anyone!!]

1) Cash purchased Laptop/USB drives [never connect this device to home/mobile internet] (using decent OS = Qubes/Whonix/Tails)

2) Wardriving to connect/order/read/learn [dont's use smart{phone,watch,car, etc.} while doing so!] (to random places that do not use Ring devices/CCTV/ANPR on the roads ;)

3) Use XMPP (Jabber) with OMEMO - Multi-End Message and Object Encryption [to communicate with others]

Many people live boring repetitive life, buy same products and visit same places, no randomness.

Slowly introduce some "random_seed" to your life so it does not stick out that much and does not raise suspicion.

- support places that accept cash and use cash more

- avoid places with cctv/cameras

- when using Social Media or posting online, think = Permanent Record

Qubes OS

http://qubesosfasa4zl44o4tws22di6kepyzfeqv3tg4e3ztknltfxqrymdad.onion/

Whonix OS

http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/

Tails OS

http://tzoz3bensgxyzs7da7lpgsn3a74h7hlbm4wa6ytq2tg6ktd57w22vqqd.onion/

Tor does not make you anonymous. Using it correctly does.

Learn about Metadata left behind in documents/pictures/video files if you must share any.

Learn about different types of digital Fingerprinting of Browsers/Cars/electronic devices.

All external USB drives should be encrypted with LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) and also use VeraCrypt,

files should be encypted with Age.

All passwords should be 20+ words long.

Thanks for the detailed reply! i will take all this into consideration an incorporate some of it into my opsec. many are lazy and dont like to think about how much can go into this but better safe than sorry when being on the bad side of the law. i dont know if i could stomach pretending to be a bootlicker though but i will at least try to be more or a normie in my public facing life.

so ull want to do ur absolute best at obfuscating ur identity n patterns from day 1 but most people dont do it perfect. the way u type the grammmar u use, the spelling. but if ur buying an oz of mdma once a week... nobody cares. there not going to look that deep over something like that, an oz of mdma would fit in the credit card slot of ur wallet. the news would make u sound like a mastermind drug trafficker over an amount of drugs not bigger than a folded $20 bill. n law enforcement is surprisnly incomeptent about a lot of things too, not always n not every officer/detective/investigator, but the movies greatly exxagerate how effective LE is at deanonymizing someone, espeically when the stakes are low. watch utube videos about how people get caught, rememebr the people those videos are about stole $240 million, 1.5 billion dollars, ran the first/largest online drug marketplace in history, were shipping dozens of packages of illicit drugs per day to customers, and so on. this is why you watn to anonymie yourself as best u can in every way. u sell 10 fake xanax to one kid and he OD's on fent n they save him, there going to interrogate him n hes going to tell on u. what he is able to tell them depends on u. dont post a link to a utube video on a darkweb forum that u just watched on ur personal youtube account. everything u do on anything google related is stored forever, if u watched or searched something on google n then posted a related item or the literal utube video on tforum, u have effectively deanonmized urself

also, it may be tempting but do not go around telling ur friends that u order from the dark web. if ur selling to people in ur town do not tell them where ur getting ur stuff. it WILL be better than anything else they can get. every person who knows is a liability, weve seen girlfriends and parents snitch on their own people. keep this stuff to urself, enjoy the best drugs money can buy for the best price u will find anywhere, n dont brag about it. people text about a lot of stuff on their iphones n its stupid af. just be smart. u wont do everything perfect right away. dont bring people to your house. try to store ur drugs offsite if u can. idk.

Honestly MB, I was super drunk and in a bad place. Publicly want to apologize, just separated from service and was having a hard time. God speed on your psychonautics.

Looking at the DN bible wont incriminate you. If you are that worried of traces, wipe your machine, delete all credit/debit cards before doing so on whatever account was signed in on your browser, reinstall a new OS, and look into using tailsOS, and stay anon on it. If you used a DN account on your prior OS, make a new one, it could be traced. If you are buying small amounts, you wont get hit unless local PD or feds are really bored. Again, God speed.