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They would probably ask you to remove the disguise. You could pay a hobo to buy you the phone, though.
by MichaelBurge 10y ago
They would probably ask you to remove the disguise. You could pay a hobo to buy you the phone, though.
- jat850 10y agoPerhaps not something insanely obvious like Grouch Marx moustache and glasses, but more subtle? I'm not really very well aware of how advanced face recognition, etc. is at this point in time though. But I'd guess anyone who cares enough about opsec to go through this process might also be decent at passable disguise techniques.
- doubleplusgood 10y agoCheck out cvdazzle
- bigiain 10y agoDoesn't exactly pass the "more subtle" requirement... (Perhaps if you arrange to buy your burner from the convenience store next door to a goth club...)
- literallycancer 10y agoThat's just (weird) fashion design. The anti-surveillance thing is an afterthought. And it doesn't work in any case.
- yborg 10y agoThis is the solution, right? You get someone else to buy the phone for you. This necessarily will practically speaking be probably be someone who knows you, but it adds a layer of indirection. The unregulated pharmaceuticals distribution market relies on burner phones and seems pretty solid despite effectively continuous attempts to conduct surveillance on them.