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Old 02-10-2019, 11:58 AM   #13
Polydamas
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Europe
Default Re: Skill for laying low in an urban area

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
Streetwise is perfectly adequate for most urban hiding because it tells you what places are policed and how much and where they ask for ID (and how to find a guy who can get you forged ID if it comes to that.) Hiding in an urban environment isn't difficult unless your face is plastered all over the media and as long as you remember to actually hide...meaning stop going to your habitual hangouts, don't call your girlfriend and don't use your credit card.
These days it is harder to hide if anyone competent is searching for you: no cell phones, no checking your social media without a good VPN, some places have mandatory registrations for employees and/or taxpayers which will make getting a job difficult ... things were easier 20 years ago. That is before we get into facial-recognition systems, tracking the bills which get put into ATMs and taken back at large chain stores, and other things which major governments deploy or might be deploying against persons of interest at a high enough level.

Before 1914 it was easier to disappear than be found again, but a hundred years later most people who try to disappear in a rich country can be found by a private investigator in a few hours' to a few days' work in a quiet office.

Eleanor Saitta has a good site which talks about the kind of issues that say people helping a battered spouse flee their partner have to worry about.

Edit: And here is one of the articles on the investigators and bounty hunters who had real-time location data on most cell phones in the USA https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...ion-data-years Yeah, you can live just fine without a cell phone or smartphone, but most people who are used to one will not want to give it up, especially if they are moving around frequently.
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