Can the CIA tie one’s identity to Monero transactions if one wanted to donate to radical ML groups that appear as terrorist organizations in the CIA list?
Can the CIA tie one’s identity to Monero transactions if one wanted to donate to radical ML groups that appear as terrorist organizations in the CIA list?
Absolutely. It wouldn't be the company it would with the NSA, and they are know fucking everything, in the USA, and globally. Assume the US government knows it if it on the internet.
According to This article from 3 years ago ... not yet. But if the CIA was able to track Monero transactions to end users, do you think they would announce it?
Monero is better than most cryptocurrencies for this but the anonymity set isn't very big. I recommend not using cryptocurrency for this.
What else is there?
There are all sorts of techniques for smuggling and money laundering but I don't have the expertise to help with that really. If you do use crypto for it, use Monero and do as few transactions as possible.
In the past monero might have been secure at one time, but I don't know if they updated to have quantum resistant algorithms implemented to fight every agency that has quantum encryption breakers now. I also wonder if the wallet scrambling method can be solved with AI nowadays.
As long as it is not a large amount of money, it might not be worth it for them to use these big tools for a small donor.
Would $100 dollars a month be considered a large amount?
1 I hope it is not exactly $100/month because this is a very public place to mention those kind of details that can lead them to find you.
2 how did you set up these recurring payments? Are you making these payments through any other third party companies? If so, they can track you. Hopefully you were just using Monero's wallet and this institution's monero address to keep all of the relevant data on Monero to have the fewest number of parties have info on your transactions.
3 I don't know if $100 in monero is a good deal of money worth following.
4 Maybe if the monero address is visible as an FBI front, but thats only if they can follow the transaction with quantum computing and AI, which I'm not good enough to tell you. Fhe FBI has done sting operations on people to make a point, but as long as you trust that the address you were paying is that org, I think you might be ok.
5 Just as a word of caution, it can't hurt to use tor as a browser with a first bridge that you know is not the FBI. Use Qubes or tails operating system when you REALLY need privacy. maybe just use Tails OS when you make these payments and nothing else.
Recurring transactions make you much less anonymous in terms of traffic analysis because it gives them more information to correlate. If you absolutely insist on doing this it's better to do it all at once, or at least not recurring regularly. You must also avoid giving any data to untrusted third parties and use a properly secured device.