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Often services online
require you

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to register and give
personal information,

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things like email addresses,
home address,

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even your phone number and
other personal information.

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As you’re aware,

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you need to minimize the information
that you give out,

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and the amount of places
that you register.

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This protects you
from identity theft,

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it protects you from privacy invasion,
from spam, from fishing, etc.

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Where possible, simply avoid

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creating an account
or registering.

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One service you can use,

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or try to use is BugMeNot.

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So say for example you want to

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use some of the services
on IMDB.com,

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do a search on here,

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and there are shared accounts
that you can use

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for IMDB that will
give you access

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to the functionality that
you want to access,

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that you normally access
if you’re registered

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via the shared account.

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And there’s also a plugin
you can get for BugMeNot.

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So this will work for
a number of sites,

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as long as you don't need

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to use that logging for
anything private,

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you want to use it generically,
then this works just fine.

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If you have to register,

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say for example you want
an account on a forum,

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then use fake information
wherever possible,

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name, address, age,
location, etc.,

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as none of these are
generally verifiable.

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Often you need to enter
an email address

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for registration, as it is used

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to send you a verification email.

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One option is to use

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what are known as throwaway
or disposable email accounts.

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Guerrilla Mail is one of the most
well known,

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so if you look here,

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this has auto generated
an email address for me.

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If I register with that
email address,

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I’ll start to see my emails here

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and then I can respond to that
for my registration.

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There are a number of
other ones available,

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here are some of the other ones.

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But obviously, remember,
anyone else

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can read these emails

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who knows this unique
email address

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and the hosting company can,

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so this is more of an anonymity
thing over security,

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and of course, if they
send you passwords

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via this disposable
email account,

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then you obviously
do need to change it.

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But if you want to keep
access to this service,

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and you want some security
out of the service,

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then probably the best option is
to use an email account

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you have set up
for this purpose,

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being the identity you
are associating

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with the service you
are registering for,

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separate from the email attached
to your true identity.

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You can also set up
an email account

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just for throwaway registration,

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separate from the email account

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you normally use
for communication,

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such as register123@gmail
or the likes,

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something like that.

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That’s what I use
for registration

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when I do need to register
for things

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that are low priority services.

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Some services require
phone verification

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via voice or sms.

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There are sites you can use
to receive sms messages,

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you can use these for
sms verification.

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They are public though in the same
way the emails are.

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So if you see here,

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this is an example site,

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you would give them
this phone number

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and these are the text messages

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that are getting sent to this
all the time.

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And if we click here,

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you can see this site offers

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a number of different
phone numbers

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that you can choose
to register with.

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And you can see this is receiving
messages all the time,

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some interesting messages here,
I wonder what this is all about?

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I mean, people can use this
obviously for non private,

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but anonymous communication
with people.

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If you do a search for
receiving sms's online,

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or searches like that,

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then you will find other sites

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that do the same

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and there are lots of them,
and some of them are free.

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There’s a list here on this link

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of 10 such sites where you
can receive sms messages.

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But it may not be suitable

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to use a public service
like this.

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If you need serious anonymity,

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in some countries
it may be easier

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to buy a sim card and a phone
with cash, anonymously,

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these are known as
burner phones.

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You can use one of these
for the registration

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and then not use it again.

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Switch it on away from your home

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and preferably in
a crowded place,

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receive the sms confirmation
and switch it off.

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Obviously, this is
only for those

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with serious anonymity needs.

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Nation states do monitor
for burner phones,

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phones that are switched
on occasionally

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for short periods of time,

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then they cross correlate it

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with other phones in the area
for profiling.

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You can buy verified
email accounts

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and other verified accounts,

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if you look on hacker forums

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and dark web forums that
are already pre-verified,

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and you can buy them with
Bitcoin anonymously.

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You would need to search

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on the various forums
for such services.