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If you want to play that game or the darknets game you may need to keep changing your alias which could be a problem as you will have to start from 0 again growing contacts and respect.

Do new groups and users have kick ass ASCII logos in their t-files these days? I’m glad the 90s era of incorrect capitalisation is gone.

Sam Bent gave a talk on Darknet opsec in which he recommends what you suggest, regularly changing alias and starting from 0. Quite an interesting talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oeaBb85Xc

You could publish a key as each of these personas and then, when reestablishing a contact using a new persona, prove your identity to that one contact by using the private key of the old (known) persona.

Am I missing something?

defeats the whole point of changing identity if you reveal who you were

You reveal it to a single (trustworthy) party that you want to reestablish contact with.

Of course, this assumes you wouldn't want to reestablish contact with a non-trustworthy party.

A trail of evidence is still a trail of evidence.

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