Consider this situation: you have achieved the highest level of HTBI privacy possible but are NOT self-employed and live in the USA.

You are a sailor whose ship is captured by pirates and at the end of the incident are labelled a hero and returned to the USA. Or another situation occurs that brings you widespread notoriety of the good type.

Can you maintain your privacy amidst the press, cameras, neighbors, politicians, and 'hometowns' clamoring for you to appear for interviews, events, and parades? If so, how?

I am just wondering if all the best-laid plans of people like the captured and released sailors can thwarted and prevent a return to their private lives, assuming they had HTBI lifestyles.

... In the current case, it would have been impossible for Captain Richard Phillips to hide in the small town of Underhill, Vermont, population 2980. However, if one of the lesser crew members came from Los Angeles, had a common name, gave no interviews and avoided pictures, he might slip by.

AT&T is double charging me and won't admit it, the latest in a long line of transgressions. I will do just about anything to cancel my AT&T account, but I can't figure out how to live without a landline.

I am also considering moving out of the area and would love to hear if anyone has ideas about which cities/states in the Pacific Northwest are the most privacy friendly. I would be very grateful for any ideas you or your readers might have on these issues. Thank you.

Also, when you create an encrypted partition, you can disguise it with a filename that ends in .iso, .raw, .dat (for example), and an non obvious filename (as opoposed to say, "encrypted data"). None of this is foolproof but it's better than making it too easy for THEM.

letters are $3/per, and packages are $5/per. there is no size limitation on packages. he even said someone shipped a motorcycle there. they will actually watch your package outside until you arrive if it's too big to fit through the door.

and the best thing is that you ship to the store directly, no suite/apt numbers are part of the address.

as far as storing the names goes, it looks as though they just put the names into a spreadsheet, which they print out for easy access.

just thought i'd share as i didn't see this mentioned in the book, or on any other questions.

... I don't know if that is true in ALL CMRAs but it's certainly worth checking. Many Web merchants (NewEgg.com is giving me a problem right now!) refuse to take an order with a PO Box as the only address.

What about paying a homeless person to get one of those netspend cards? The prepaid visa or mastercards? Cancel it after it is used online?

I recently bought some southwest airline gift cards to pay for a one way flight. I thought nothing of it. The only problem, when I got to the airport, I was selected for extra security. Keep in mind I have no criminal past. This was highly irksome. I just acted like a dumb sheep - yes, sir no, sir just going to see my dying grandma sir! After giving me death stares for 30 minutes I was released. Prior to boarding the plane, I noticed I was being followed by a couple of guys who kept watching me, and no I was not paranoid. I figured the purchase of those gift cards set off some sort of alarm. Needless to say, I will not do that again.

A good friend of mine was being gang stalked. She started taking pictures of their vehicle & the tag numbers, even getting up to their window and taking pictures of them. Then would follow some of their vehicles all around town. Through a coincidence, one of the pictures she took had a decal of a neighborhood association. She looked the association up in the phone book and found out where one of the gangstalkers lived. So on the weekends a bunch of us would drive by this persons house and sometimes sit across the street from it. We would mimick all the gangstalking techniques. My favorite, "drive by at 3 am honking the horn". A few months passed by and she was not being hounded by these morons. One interesting note, majority of the vehicles following her had an american flag sticker on their vehicle(s).

Do you think that if one was to take several thousand dollars out of the country (under $10,000.00) that one could use $500.00 euro notes? I would think that $5-9k in %500.00 euro notes would fit nicely folded up in ones wallet?

Also, on the subject of carrying computer files across international borders, I would rather be safe than sorry. I send a copy (50 Gigs worth) of the most vital pictures and data ahead to my destination. Then I use evidence eliminator for my laptop hard drive. I then reformat my hard drive several times over (I know it is a little over kill) and reload the basic programs, installing none of my files so if the computer is copied and scanned then there will be nothing that will come up that could be constructively perceived as being suspicious, especially in this post 9-11 environment. Once I get overseas and my files arrive, I make another copy and go to a desolate mountain area with GPS coordinates in hand. I then bury them in the side of a mountain, record the GPS coordinates. That way I will not have to re-mail them everywhere I go. I know.. I know.. I am a bit of a drama queen. I do not keep both GPS coordinates together though. Did I also mention that I keep a few thousand dollars, a few change of clothes (small suit case) with it?

In conclusion, I am sure everyone knows that LE can also turn on the internal microphone & video camera that comes with alot of newer laptops!?!. Karen

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Might work. Why not try it, and let us know the result?

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Excellent information, thank you!

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I've read reports of gang stalking and wondered if it was really true, or was a result of paranoia. If any of you readers have specific information, please enlighten me.

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I am a big fan of 500-euro notes, both for carrying and for sending in the mail.

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I'd like to hear from some readers in law enforcement about that one. Certainly not "everyone" knows about it, even if true.

Unless you're John Gotti, I doubt you have much to be worried about (a device like that isn't too precise and true bugging isn't usually a random act).

I have tried to narrow down the source of what's making it beep, but haven't had too much luck. Anyone have any experiences with this device? Or know any tips on what I should look for as far as RF devices? Any way to get false readings? It beeps in my kitchen around a stand alone pantry/closet. Any other ways to tell if someone is monitoring you inside the house?

I could also go on about carrying a drive with a ssh key and applications like putty, filezilla, vnc etc. using them to access your stuff on remote machine(s).