02-10-2019, 01:17 PM | #21 | |
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As for FB figuring it out, that is easy to avoid if you only have to use some such services. |
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02-10-2019, 01:20 PM | #22 | |
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Number three: Don't post the same pictures or tag the same articles or follow the same people across your accounts. Easy-peasy. |
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02-10-2019, 02:05 PM | #23 | |
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I don't think they are all-knowing, but I think that unless you have serious training and skills, you can assume that they can link all your accounts together and that they know something about your real identity. (Sorting out the facts from the bad guesses and the deliberate misinformation is the job of the person tracking the character in the original post, who are probably rolling against Intelligence Analysis or Research).
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02-10-2019, 03:00 PM | #24 |
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02-10-2019, 03:44 PM | #25 | |
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At our TL8, in the countries most of us reading are living, people don't just carry that much cash with them and society increasingly assumes that anyone without credit cards, picture ID, bank accounts and credit ratings are either criminals or at least enough of a bad risk so that no one wants them living on their property or working for them. After all, if you can't charge their card for damages, what will you do if the reason they didn't want to show ID is that they planned to steal everything in the room that wasn't nailed down and trash most of the rest?
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02-10-2019, 03:49 PM | #26 |
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There are places where you can get prepaid phones without showing ID and filing out documents with all your real information, but increasing numbers of countries are simply banning that, as something they maintain is only used by criminals on the run, drug dealers and terrorists.
Most of Continental Europe already assumes that you'll leave a thick paper and computer trail anywhere you go, no matter what you do. And as far as paper trail goes, that sort of thing goes back to the 19th century. The right to privacy, in Europe, explicitly does not include the right to travel under any name but your own or to rent apartments or hotel rooms without ID. Yes, you can find places to rent where the owner is indifferent and allows you to get away with filing false paperwork, but that's either random chance, or if you seek it out deliberately, a pretty classic use of Area Knowledge for a place you know or Streetwise for a place you don't already know that well.
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02-10-2019, 04:33 PM | #27 | |
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Of course, Streetwise can find people who will help you make transactions in cash and avoid official record keeping.
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02-10-2019, 07:39 PM | #30 | |
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