Posted on 10/28/2007 5:20:58 PM PDT by BGHater
We've never been under such intense scrutiny as we are today. So how do we evade the snoopers? Here, an 'off-grid' expert offers an insider's guide
We live in the most watched-over society in Europe. Exposure, especially in The Observer, has done little to hold the state and private sector in check. Phone records have become police records, as Henry Porter pointed out in this paper last week, and CCTV camera records are now fed into the automatic registration number computer. Credit and store-card records have become marketing records and our email addresses are points of entry for all sorts of crime and spam.
It's time to fight back using all the legal means at our disposal. We need to duck under the radar of government surveillance, credit-checking agencies, internet and mobile phone companies or the DVLA. I have been learning how to keep the info-snoopers at bay. My research has led me into a world of middle-aged hoodies, who cover up in shopping centres to avoid the CCTV cameras; of young computer users who keep their names off spam lists and out of reach of the megacorps; and people who live off-grid, out of sight of the system and unplugged from the utility companies. So, here's is a survival checklist for the information age.
1 Buy an untraceable mobile phone
Travel to a town you have never visited before, to an area with no CCTV cameras and ask a homeless person to buy a pay-as-you-go mobile phone for you. That way no shop will have your image on its CCTV. You will also have an anonymous mobile.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
Don't forget to by self adhesive postage stamps. The Post Office use the ones you lick to get your DNA :)
100 years ago these people had an empire. now they are a laughing stock and, if not stopped, soon to become an islamic country.
Have things gotten so bad and our elected officials and corporations; etc are so crooked; people have to resort to going underground?
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Death to databases.
“Honestly, I think he’ll have a very convenient “heart attack” just before the general election that will deliver a large sympathy vote.”
Amazing.
I think all stamps are self adhesive these days.
this came to mind...
When the righteous triumph, there is great elation;
but when the wicked rise to power, men go into hiding. Proverbs 28:12
Ummm, The Guardian is a left-wing newspaper.
Could we have the version from a right-wing newspaper? What? The text is identical? OK, thanks.
You’re right. After all, I have nothing to hide, so why should I care if the police walk through my front door at all hours of the day or night. I’m a good little serf, because I trust the government wholly and without reservation.
All must be criminals if they express any objection in any way to the government wanting to protect one from oneself.
The government is only here to help us. The members of government are way smarter and more able to decide what we need, want and should have.
Yes they do.
It’s good to see you are learning well, Don.
I don’t sign up for freebies. I don’t sign up for discounts at my local stores. I don’t turn on my cell phone unless I’m calling someone (GPS tracking). ASAP I’ll be out of the city to nowhere.
Sure, they’ll still be able to find me, but I won’t be a problem for anyone but the few people I irritate on FR.
bump
FYI- GPS tracking and voice monitoring can both be done with the phone off. You’d have to remove the battery to block this.
My thanks, fellow serf. I love big brother.
This is a PITA. Get yourself a small metal box if you want to carry your phone around that way.
Ping.
Thanks.
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