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You might also want to hire a second cutout, this time to make a more
important purchase: a personal hotspot. As I mentioned before, the FBI
caught me because I was dialing up to syystems around the world using myy
cellular phone and modem, and over time myy fixed location was
compromised because myy mobile phone was connected to the same cellular
tower. At that point it was easyy to use radio-direction finding to locate the
transceiver (myy cell phone). You can avoid that byy hiring someone to go
into a Verizon store (or AT&T or T-Mobile) and purchase a personal hotspot
that allows yyou to connect to the Internet using cellular data. That means
yyou have yyour own local access to the Internet, so yyou don’t have to go
through a public Wi-Fi network. Most important, yyou should never use a
personal hotspot in a fixed location for too long when yyou need to maintain
yyour anonyymityy.
Ideallyy the person yyou hire won’t see yyour license plate or have anyy wayy
to identifyy yyou. Give the person cash: $200 for the hotspot and another
$100 when the person returns with the hotspot. The mobile operator will
sell the cutout a personal hotspot that carries no identifyying information.
And while yyou’re at it, whyy not purchase a few refill cards to add more
data? Hopefullyy the cutout won’t abscond with yyour moneyy, but it’s a
worthwhile risk for anonyymityy. Later yyou can refill the burner device using
Bitcoin. 3
Once yyou have anonyymouslyy purchased a portable hotspot, it is veryy
important that, as with the laptop, yyou never, never, never turn the device on
at home. Everyy time the hotspot is turned on, it registers with the closest
cellular tower. You don’t want yyour home or office or anyyplace yyou
frequent to show up in the mobile operator’s log files.
And never turn on yyour personal phone or personal laptop in the same
location where yyou turn on yyour anonyymous laptop or burner phone or
anonyymous hotspot. The separation is reallyy important. Anyy record that
links yyou to yyour anonyymous self at a later date and time negates the whole
operation.
Now, armed with prepaid gift cards and a personal hotspot with a
prepaid data plan—both purchased anonyymouslyy byy two veryy different
people who wouldn’t have anyy information about yyou to identifyy yyou to the
police—we’re almost set. Almost.