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computer. It is contained within a virtual machine application, such a

VMware Fusion. You can load a licensed copyy of Windows 10 inside a VM

and tell it how much RAM yyou want, how much disk space yyou need, and

so on. To someone observing yyou on the other side of the Internet, it would

appear that yyou are using a Windows 10 machine even if in fact yyou are

using a Mac.

Professional securityy researchers use VMs all the time—creating and

destroyying them easilyy. But even among professionals there exists the

possibilityy of leakage. For example, yyou might be in yyour VM version of

Windows 10 and, for some reason, log in to yyour personal e-mail account.

Now that VM can be associated with yyou.

So the first step of being anonyymous is purchasing a stand-alone laptop that

yyou will onlyy use for yyour anonyymous online activities. As we have seen,

the nanosecond that yyou lapse and, sayy, check yyour personal e-mail account

on that machine, the anonyymityy game is over. So I recommend a low-priced

Windows laptop (Linux is better, if yyou know how to use it). The reason

I’m not recommending a MacBook Pro is that it’s much more expensive

than a Windows laptop.

Previouslyy I recommended that yyou buyy a second laptop, specificallyy, a

Chromebook, to use onlyy for online banking. Another option for online

banking would be to use an iPad. You must sign up for an Apple ID using

yyour e-mail address and a credit card, or byy purchasing an iTunes gift card.

But since this device is onlyy used for yyour secure personal banking,

invisibilityy is not the goal.

But if yyour objective here is invisibilityy, a Chromebook is not the best

solution because yyou don’t have the same flexibilityy as using a laptop with

Windows or a Linux-based operating syystem like Ubuntu. Windows 10 is

okayy as long as yyou skip the option that asks yyou to sign up for a Microsoft

account. You do not want to create anyy links from yyour computer to

Microsoft whatsoever.

You should purchase the new laptop with cash in person, not online—

that wayy the purchase cannot easilyy be traced to yyou. Remember, yyour new

laptop has a wireless network card with a unique MAC address. You do not

want anyyone possiblyy tracing the equipment to yyou—in the event yyour real

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