How to disappear
How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who's ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing--whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence. Written by the world's leading experts on finding people and helping people avoid being found, How to Disappear covers everything from tools for disappearing to discovering and eliminating the nearly invisible tracks and clues we tend to leave wherever we go. Learn the three keys to disappearing, all about your electronic footprints, the dangers and opportunities of social networking sites, and how to disappear from a stalker.
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What Hacker News says
- - The Mysterium: David Bramwell, Jo Keeling
- Digital Minimalism: Cal Newport
- How Democracies Die: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
- How to Disappear: Akiko Bush
- Bullshit Jobs: David Graeber
- Its basic Income: Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley
- Utopia for Realists: Rutger Bergman
- Human Rigths and the uses of History, Samuel Moyn
- Too much Stuff: Kozo Yamamura
- 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...
