Verification of my approach regarding VPN and VM
I am political activist in a country that is not really what most people would consider as western democracy. Fortunetly still far from dictatorship. I wish to start a new accounts on various social media (Twitter, TikTok and Instagram) to post my content. Unfortunately, political debate here can be very fierce and there have been situations, where social media activist has been doxed and their personal information leaked which led to very unpleasant situation. It was not the Government who tracked them but “activist from other side” who support different political option in my country. Nothing terrible happened but some of those who were doxed suffered various unpleasantries and had even stop their internet activity to protect their families privacy. I am completely unaware if they used any tools to bolster their anonymity online (I am sure one of those who were tracked used none, don`t know about the rest). I would like to avoid this. Unfortunately my knowledge on this matter is limited (I am journalist by training), but I manage get something like this:
- Virtual Machine from which I will be operate my accounts. After every session I will restore VM state to ensure no malware got installed.
- Create social media accounts with VPN new email which does not consists any of my personal information.
- Operate my social media accounts only with VPN. I will never post anything related to my personal life (and obviously accounts won`t consists my real name).
- Use TOR to research internet for my content.
What advice would you give me considered that my main threat are just normal people with better knowledge than I have, but with access to same tracking tools as regular people have? What I am missing? I don`t intent to post any harassing content, I am well aware this can lead to involvement of law enforcement and they could track me very easy if they want to.
