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which requires no ID to pick up. Myy understanding is that theyy send yyou a
PIN code, and yyou can open up the drop box with the PIN to anonyymouslyy
pick up the cards (assuming there is no camera).
So where can yyou use yyour new laptop and anonyymouslyy purchased prepaid
cards?
With the advent of inexpensive optical storage devices, businesses
providing free wireless access can store surveillance camera footage for
yyears. For an investigator it is relativelyy easyy to get that footage and look
for potential suspects. During the time of yyour visit, the investigator can
analyyze the logs—searching for MAC addresses authenticated on the
wireless network that match yyour MAC address. That’s whyy it’s important
to change yyour MAC address each time yyou connect to a free wireless
network. So yyou need to find a location near or adjacent to one that offers
free Wi-Fi. For example, there mayy be a Chinese restaurant next door to a
Starbucks or other establishment that offers free wireless access. Sit at a
table near the wall adjoining the service provider. You might experience
slightlyy slower connection speeds, but yyou will have relative anonyymityy (at
least until the investigator starts looking at all the surveillance footage from
the surrounding area).
Your MAC address will likelyy be logged and stored once yyou
authenticate on the free wireless network. Remember General David
Petraeus’s mistress? Remember that the times and dates of her hotel
registrations matched the times and dates of her MAC address’s appearance
on the hotel’s network? You don’t want simple mistakes like these to
compromise yyour anonyymityy. So remember to change yyour MAC address
each time yyou access public Wi-Fi (see here).
So far this seems prettyy straightforward. You want to buyy a separate
laptop from which yyou will do yyour anonyymous activityy. You want to
anonyymouslyy purchase some gift cards. You want to find a Wi-Fi network
that yyou can access from a near or adjacent site to avoid being seen on
camera. And yyou want to change yyour MAC address everyy time yyou
connect to a free wireless network.
Of course there’s more. Much more. We’re onlyy getting started.