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OSINT and privacy

Free things to do:

  1. linux
  2. password manager
  3. secure comms
  4. online removal
  5. no social media
  6. no stock browser

Minimal expense:

  1. UPS Box (show passport because it has no address)
  2. Switch phone (mint mobile)
  3. Faraday bag
  4. VPN (two?)
  5. prepaid card

Expensive:

  1. Personal Mail Box (South Dakota, Texas. Escapees)
  2. New devices
  3. New car
  4. New home

ONLINE REMOVAL

  • delete tweets before closing down account
  • Change information before deleting it
  • use a strict robots.txt file to delete cache before losing a domain
  • isolate email addresses for each sign up service

PEOPLE SEARCH

White pages history review

DOMAIN NAME

Domain history search

POST

Send to MAIN DROP information you NEED using one return address and disinformation you will DUMP using another return address. Instruct mail company to separate mail according to mail address and send NEED overnight and DUMP regular to BLUFF BOX. Instruct BLUFF BOX company to send to BURN, and BURN to SAFE. Let BLUFF expire. Cancel BURN.

Main drop > Bluff box > Burn box> Safe box

MONEY

Blur for anonymous payment?

privacy.com

Pre-paid credit card

Anonymous LLC

PHONES

MySudo numbers

  1. personal number
  2. business number
  3. home alias
  4. travel alias
  5. outgoing call, recycled often
  6. 2FA
  7. Signal

Break phone: buy, charge many minutes, forward to number you want to call, smash it

Buy Fresh phone and calling card separately. Use calling card on fresh phone to call break phone

Spoof card to change called ID

Alibi services

Discrete voice mail, goes to voicemail without ringing

MAKING ALIASES

Home alias should be gender-neutral, like Alex. Also use initials

  1. Get a Mint SIM card, free for 7 days. Sign up accounts using it, put

other 2FA during the week

CHANGE THE PERSON WHO LIVES AT YOUR HOME

  1. Get a magazine subscription at your home in an alias name, especially

Wired and Forbes. This will spread the data across databases, then use the alias to order packages. Update your listing on whitepages.com to match the alias and home address OR find someone with your alias name and change their address to yours

  1. Online registers, like theknot.com, show you are married in a

different city.

  1. Get some ads in your alias, for example by calling a cruise company
  2. Get a blog in your alias' name and niche interest, put your address

on the blog. Get a blog in your domain, put a different address, for example a hotel or a library far away

  1. change credit card to PO Box, then change utility bills, then change

bank account

MOVE HOUSE

Land trust is s type of living trust. LLC better for protection. Land trust good for privacy. No record of land trusts. Make land trust in a different state than the land, and make the beneficiary an LLC in another state. Other than Delaware, Wyoming, Nevada, LLC must have more than one member

DRIVER LICENCE

Driver licence not in a residential address, in case of accident data becomes public record

TRAVEL

Hotel rewards programmes under an alias name, pre-pay your stay non-refundable so you do not need to show ID at check-in, or use an electronic check-in so you do not have to go to front desk at all. Get high on the awards program

OSINT

IDAEA: browser extension that automates account sign-up

Facebook events:

facebook.com/search/[personID]/events

facebook.com/search/str/[personID]/events/[year]/[date]

Make aliases join FB groups with similar interests to their persona, then accept friend suggestions made by FB of these people with similar interests.

Email alias: nonaddy