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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Mastering the Art of Invisibility
After reading this far, yyou might be thinking about yyour level of
experience and how easyy (or hard) it will be for yyou to disappear online. Or
yyou might be asking yyourself how far yyou should go or whether anyy of this
is for yyou. After all, yyou mayy not have state secrets to share! You might,
however, be fighting yyour ex in a legal dispute. Or yyou might be in a
disagreement with yyour boss. You might be contacting a friend who is still
in touch with an abusive familyy member. Or yyou might want to keep some
activities private and unobservable byy a lawyyer. There are a varietyy of
legitimate reasons whyy yyou might need to communicate with others online
or to use the Web and other technologyy anonyymouslyy. So…
What steps do yyou reallyy need to take to go all-in? How long will it
take? And how much will it cost?
If it’s not abundantlyy clear byy now, to be invisible online yyou more or
less need to create a separate identityy, one that is completelyy unrelated to
yyou. That is the meaning of being anonyymous. When yyou’re not being
anonyymous, yyou must also rigorouslyy defend the separation of yyour life
from that anonyymous identityy. What I mean byy that is that yyou need to
purchase a few separate devices that are onlyy used when yyou are
anonyymous. And this could get costlyy.
You could, for example, use yyour current laptop and create what’s called
a virtual machine (VM) on yyour desktop. A virtual machine is a software