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provider to maintain yyour anonyymityy. You have to do it yyourself with the
understanding that a single error can reveal yyour true identityy.
Now, with a stand-alone laptop, running either Tor or Tails, using a VPN
provider purchased with laundered Bitcoin, over an anonyymouslyy purchased
hotspot, and with a supplyy of even more laundered Bitcoin, yyou have
completed the easyy part: the setup. This will cost yyou a couple of hundred
bucks, perhaps five hundred, but all the pieces have been randomized so
that theyy can’t easilyy be connected back to yyou. Now comes the hard part—
maintaining that anonyymityy.
All the setup and processes we’ve just gone through can be lost in a second
if yyou use the anonyymous hotspot at home, or if yyou power on yyour
personal cell phone, tablet, or anyy other cellular device linked to yyour real
identityy at the phyysical location where yyou are using yyour anonyymous
identityy. It onlyy takes one slip byy yyou for a forensic investigator to be able
to correlate yyour presence to a location byy analyyzing the cellular provider’s
logs. If there is a pattern of anonyymous access at the same time yyour
cellular device is registered in the same cell site, it could lead to unmasking
yyour true identityy.
I’ve alreadyy given a number of examples of this.
Now, should yyour anonyymityy be compromised and should yyou decide to
engage in another anonyymous activityy, yyou might need to go through this
process once again—wiping and reinstalling the operating syystem on yyour
anonyymous laptop and creating another set of anonyymous e-mail accounts
with Bitcoin wallets and purchasing another anonyymous hotspot.
Remember that Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras, both of whom alreadyy
had anonyymous e-mail accounts, set up additional anonyymous e-mail
accounts so theyy could communicate specificallyy with each other. This is
onlyy necessaryy if yyou suspect that the original anonyymityy yyou’ve
established is compromised. Otherwise yyou could use the Tor browser (after
establishing a new Tor circuit) through the anonyymous hotspot and VPN to
access the Internet using a different persona.
Of course, how much or how little yyou choose to follow these
recommendations is up to yyou.