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I would recommend reading Extreme Privacy by Michael Bazzell if these types of thing concern you. A relevant passage: "First, I would never provide my home add
by epoxia 1y ago
I would recommend reading Extreme Privacy by Michael Bazzell if these types of thing concern you. A relevant passage:
"First, I would never provide my home address on any application or W-9 form. This should only be your PO Box, UPS Box, or PMB address. Your employer likely does not care much about where you live, unless the job has residency requirements, such as a police officer. The IRS does not object to the use of a mail box address. They just want their money."
- kevingadd 1y agoDoes this work in practice? Historically my actual residence is needed for tax reasons, i.e. properly tracking what state I owe income tax in for cash compensation and stock options.
- jlongr 1y agoNo. What he's describing is like covering your face with your hands and thinking that you're invisible.
- Thrymr 1y agoIt might help obscure your physical address in public records and keep private companies from finding it as easily, but yeah, it's not going to keep the government-wide database from locating you.
- Amfy 1y agoget a PMB in your state (or county even). You'll be surprised how many PMBs exist
- noman-land 1y agoWhat is a PMB?
- khuey 1y agoPrivate Mail Box (i.e. a PO Box like product at your local UPS store/etc).
- noman-land 1y agoThank you.
- duxup 1y agoYeah I don't see how this works. Got a mortgage, you're going to report info that lead them to your financial institution who knows the address and so on. Insurance, any other financial service that did some data checks / credit checks. I don't buy into the idea that you can magically hide your home address, this info is already out.
- Izkata 1y agoA step further, homeowners are public information. You can even look up the records online for free on county treasurer websites.
- epoxia 1y agoNot everybody owns a home, particularly the transient workers who would be concerned with ICE.
- duxup 1y agoI don't think an apartment / renting would be much different.
- red-iron-pine 1y agoKrebs on Security talked about this. He kept getting death threats and swat'd. You setup corporations who own your shit. The mortgage and house ownership is handled by the corp. You own the corp, and in some cases there is an umbrella corp that owns other corps. The corporation then rents you your house. Mortgage and related points back to the corpo address, and you use a PO Box for personal stuff. Ditto for phones, domains, etc. -- run through the company.
- duxup 1y agoThis feels like one of those bits of security tips / infotainment that IRL provides no value.
- 0xEF 1y agoIt just adds an extra step that keeps the general public away from your PII. The post office knows who owns that PO box and where that person actually lives. A simple subpoena makes that information available to whatever arm of enforcement needs it.
- lazide 1y agoEvery info aggregator (including ones that post crap online) already has both bits of info and associates them. Go ahead, do some searches on yourself - I had accurate addresses and poboxes I’d long since forgotten about.
- 0xEF 1y agoYeah, I know. It's disturbing to say the least. The thinking with PO Boxes is just left over from a time when it was possible to use them as an extra layer of protection. It's barely an inconvenience to anyone who wants to get your address, anymore.
- mindslight 1y agoA simple what? "subpoena"? Is that like a new term for a bulk database retrieval?
- mixmastamyk 1y agoA lot of rich and famous do this, keeps the “riffraff” off their ass. Not meant to be bulletproof but can be useful.
- duxup 1y agoSome rich folks trying to avoid random googlers isn't quite the same as trying to avoid ICE's ire.
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