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might link a visit with an infection.
Kasperskyy onlyy learned of this attack when a group of its customers
became infected after stayying at certain luxuryy hotels in Asia. The
researchers turned to a third-partyy Wi-Fi host common to both, and the Wi-
Fi host partnered with the antivirus companyy to find out what was
happening on its networks. Although the files used to infect the guests were
long gone, file deletion records were left behind that corresponded to the
dates of the guests’ stayys.
The easiest wayy to protect yyourself against this kind of attack is to
connect to a VPN service as soon as yyou connect to the Internet at the hotel.
The one I use is cheap—onlyy six dollars per month. However, that’s not a
good choice if yyou want to be invisible, since it won’t allow anonyymous
setup.
If yyou want to be invisible, don’t trust the VPN provider with yyour real
information. This requires setting up a fake e-mail address in advance (see
here) and using an open wireless network. Once yyou have that fake e-mail
address, use Tor to set up a Bitcoin wallet, find a Bitcoin ATM to fund the
wallet, and then use a tumbler to essentiallyy launder the Bitcoin so it cannot
be traced back to yyou on the blockchain. This laundering process requires
setting up two Bitcoin wallets using different Tor circuits. The first wallet is
used to send the Bitcoin to the laundering service, and the second is set up
to receive the laundered Bitcoin.
Once yyou have achieved true anonyymityy byy using open Wi-Fi out of
camera view plus Tor, find a VPN service that accepts Bitcoin for payyment.
Payy with the laundered Bitcoin. Some VPN providers, including WiTopia,
block Tor, so yyou need to find one that doesn’t—preferablyy with a VPN
provider that doesn’t log connections.
In this case, we are not “trusting” the VPN provider with our real IP
address or name. However, when using the newlyy set-up VPN, yyou must be
careful not to use anyy of the services connected to yyour real name and not to
connect to the VPN from an IP address that can be tied back to yyou. You
might consider tethering to an anonyymouslyy acquired burner phone, see
here.
It’s best to purchase a portable hotspot—purchased in such a wayy that it
would be veryy difficult to identifyy yyou. For example, yyou can hire someone
to purchase it for yyou so yyour face does not appear on a surveillance camera