Yeah. I don’t do it to hide from the government. I do it to hide from nutcases. If one wants to hide from the government it’s a simple process, but I suspect it would be hard to have the discipline to actually DO. It would go something like this:
1. Pay cash for a laptop with wifi, new or used.
2. Get a full set of clothes (and maybe a pillow to enhance your “gut” under your shirt). Also, “Buddy Holly” style glasses, with or without lenses.
3. Use a free wi-fi connection not near your home to set up any accounts you need, using bogus info for all of them. If you drive there, do not park within two blocks of it (minimum).
4. Store the clothing, the laptop and any other hardware at a storage facility.
5. Avoid using the same wi-fi spot twice and randomize the paths to the various wi-fi locations.
6. Never, EVER access any of the online info with any of your “real” computers, and never, EVER access any of your real information with this laptop. The mindset would be that the owner of the laptop is somebody that does not even know you or hang around the circles you do.
7. Change your vernacular - the way you communicate. Don’t use phrases you normally use. Mix it up.
And for extra credit, if you are REALLY paranoid, park a couple of miles from the free wi-fi and bicycle, hitchhike or use public transportation. And changing your clothes somewhere in transit is even better.
The above steps completely prevent you from being traced both electronically and physically. The “disguise” even prevents you from being tracked on various surveillance cameras. And if you are attracting “their” attention, you probably want to change costumes from time to time. Even a “fake” beard and wig may be in order.
But you would have to be up to something really bad to have to go through all that trouble. I bring up this list only to point out just how vulnerable we are to someone that is crazy enough to be really serious about all this stuff.
The hard part would be the discipline. And it would be. Most criminals are caught because they can’t keep their mouth shut.
Bkmrk.
Pay cash for the storage facility.
why not drive around and look of un unsecured home net work?