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How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.I have ... interesting ... friends. I'll bet I know scarier people IRL, than I'll find online.Also, what impressed me about the Disqus incident, was how fast it came back with that list.
In the US, at least, true anonymity takes a lot of work. For example, if you own a house, people can use tax records to find out who you are, unless you do what rich people do, and use shell companies. I also own a couple of [small] companies. I maintain a UPS box, because they get a lot of junk mail (and some business junk mail comes to my home address, anyway).
That's just one of hundreds of ways we can be found. Many predate teh Internets Tubes. My mailbox gets stuffed with junk mail. Some of it is quite specific. They use these mechanisms, and have been, for decades. I have known folks in the collections industry. They can find people surprisingly easily. There was one guy who used to be a skip tracer, and he wrote a book called How to Disappear[0]. It's a fairly sobering read (and probably quaintly anachronistic, these days).
The Unabomber actually did it correctly. He only got nailed, once he posted something publicly.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Digital-Footprint-Witho...
⬐ yieldcrvAlso just because there is a law doesn't mean there are consequences codified, and this is most true regarding states laws that “require” an LLC registered in their state. Remember that states are in competition for business, there are hurdles for them to do annoying things. The best example I’ve seen in one state is that a local LLC branch is required after your foreign LLC gets sued, and the limited liability is active and retroactively applied at that point in time. But hey maybe your anonymous LLC deters people from suing to begin with.(This is different than there being a law codified and not being enforced)
⬐ collegeburner⬐ mst"Anonymous" LLCs are going away. FinCEN will be requiring reporting of everybody with ownership greater than 25% starting in probably 1-2 years from now. The fucking feds won't let us have anything without stalking our every move.⬐ yieldcrvYes, their proposed implementations of that act look pretty onerous and unnecessarily difficult to comply withBut I’m fine with one agency of the federal government having a private database, shareable for some investigations, which is the direction its going
I hope it gets handicapped or repealed
My name being Matt S Trout, abbreviated on various documents as 'MS TROUT', I regularly get junk mail addressed to 'Ms. Trout'.Once, my housemate got junk mail addressed to 'Mr. <firstname> Trout' as a result. He was a trifle annoyed by this but his partner found it hilarious.
⬐ ntoskrnlThis reminds me of a post I saw on /r/fatfire about how to buy a house anonymously. I have it bookmarked in case my company ever takes off.https://old.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/comments/l0wd5i/update_to_p...