Recently I had a client whose soon-to-be-divorced wife was tracking him via cell phone. His wife was also getting his text messages. She'd show up at the most inopportune times, like when he was at a motel. I didn't have a chance to examine his phone for tracking apps (they are available for smartphones!), but it was obvious to me his phone was compromised. I advised him to get a new phone with a separate carrier and dump the company phone he was using (family business). If you own a smartphone, you definitely need to limit access to it as you would a computer.

Most phones have a feature whereby one can disable the location features, though I am sure it does not disable e911. I am not privy to all the features of e911 that are available to law enforcement and whether they can track a phone with the location features disabled outside of 911 calls. The e911 feature cannot be disabled.

Most people are not aware that GPS has evolved into AGPS, so that when a satellite GPS signal is lost, say in a large building, AGPS reverts to triangulating from cell phone towers, which is not nearly as accurate. In my experience with a nat'l provider, a satellite signal can track my phone to within 10-20 yards of its location when it's got a clear satellite signal, like when it's in my car. If the signal is jammed by a building or some other structure, the location jumps out to 150-200 yards, or more. Again, this is with the location feature ENABLED. Disable the location feature built into your phone for added privacy.

FYI, Carl

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I totalled my car a couple of weeks ago and will handle my next vehicle with privacy in mind: buying from a private owner in cash and registering with an LLC. I don't know whether to look forward to my first LLC car registration or to dread the potential headaches and unanticipated pesky questions.

I was curious to see if my LLC would really be listed on New Mexico's web site, and indeed it is. For those who would like to check out their own LLCs, use the search box in the link below.

Submitted Link #1: http://www.nmprc.state.nm.us/cii.htm...

There is a lot of pressure to go to college and I know I don't actually want to but I'm not sure what else there is sometimes. I've wrestled with the idea of if I should or not for a few years now. Any chance I could check out your ebook too? I'd really like to avoid college if I can. I don't want to be anywhere near all the parties, drugs and debauchery...

I try to live a clean life close to the divine and I know college definitely isn't an environment conducive to what I really care about in life. It seems like college would mostly just fill my head full of 95% useless information and occupy so much of my time that I can't focus on anything that matters to me. Seems more like brainwash in a lot of ways.

(1) Should I pay off the vehicle, and use it for NM LLC, or sell it and buy a diff one using cash for this purpose?

(2) Also, I have scoured the site and have yet to see someone in Canada successfully use a NM LLC to register a vehicle there. Is this possible?

(3) Lastly, before we move, will it be prudent to keep a ghost address, mail forwarder, and friend/nominee here in the states? I have a US based business and want to maintain a US address so my clients think I am still in the US.

Thanks for all you do.

... 1) It might be simpler to sell the RAV4 and get a new one in Canada, but check first. Perhaps you can license the SUV in Canada without paying tax. But if that doesn't work, contact me. I know someone who is looking for a 2007 RAV4 (All wheel drive).

... 2) Not that I know of.

... 3) Yes. You might even consider the Alaska ghost address if not much actual mail will be involved.

Everything Luna says in the book fits with my personal observations about college. All of my peers just go without even thinking about it. 90% of them are through their generals and have no idea what they want to do for a living. They take a year off trying to decide on a major but a year later they still don't know and won't even consider the idea of not going. They have a huge pile of student loans and no direction whatsoever. Most are quite depressed. Many around me who are out of college get a job making less than me when I never went and I have ZERO debt because i refuse to touch credit.

cross-cut (diamond) shred everything, put it in a 35 gallon plastic trash can, about 3/4 full, add a gallon or two of alcohol to dissolve ink and stimulate cellulose breakdown if you like, fill with water, stir a bit and then let marinate for a week or so, till it becomes a sodden, gluey mass of unrecoverable paper fibers, then screen out the excess water, dump it in a heavy-duty trash bag and put it in a dumpster somewhere. (or put the bag in the trash can first and save a step...)

... When you say "simple," you're kidding I presume.

1. All required & were very picky/inconsistent about the Authorization Letter.

2. Insurance ID card required upfront and must be in LLC name.

Here's where it gets intolerable:

3. Motor vehicle docs. to an in-state address require LLC have PA TIN.

4. Motor vehicle docs. to an out-of-state address will not be issued w/o filing form MV-8(7-07) which requires certification by an authorized agent of out of state business with no PA address to provide:

a) Documentation showing existence of LLC in state other than PA.

b) The authorized agent's out-of-state DL and

c) Documentation of WHERE the vehicle is being used in PA'

Therefore, I am currently hiring an Authorized Agent w/nonPA DL to perform the transaction here in PA or my other(& at this time prefered) option is to assign the title to the NMLLC and register it in a freedom-loving state--to which i would gladly accept direction & compensate anyone willing to facilitate the process.

Feel free to contact me at dwatp@yahoo.com or post here if you can assist in any way.

Let Freedom Ring!

I would advise against burning documents and plastics for health reasons alone. Our air is bad enough…

I have always purchased good quality shredders at Costco (usually Royal brand) – my current model can cross-cut shred up to 17 pages at a time, and was about $100. It also destroys CD/DVDs, credit cards, and other thin plastic objects. My first Royal lasted about 6 years, and this one is on its 3rd year.

I recently converted my 12 years of paper archives into scanned/encrypted PDFs, and spent about 3 days shredding thousands of pieces of paper. The Royal shredder never even hiccupped. In the end, I filled eight 45 gallon trash bags with shredded paper. After putting on a dust mask, I dumped out the bags in my garage and mixed everything up, re-bagged it, and threw away one bag per week.

I received the American Community Survery for the first time this year, about 2.5% of the population gets it every year. It asks very intimate questions about your lifestyle, well beyond a normal census and is part of the census nowadays. It also very clearly threatens you with fines and imprisonment if not answered. I threw the survey away. I got another one three weeks later with bold red letters on the envelop intimidating you to answer the questions. I threw that one away.

Per what I have read on the internet, the next step is that they come visit you at the door in a very threatening manner. These census workers get paid by commission for those that do not answer the American Community Survey by mail and thus use many scare tactices. Of all the surveys not answered by mail, a certain percentage initiates a visit to the house. I plan on not answering the door if there is a stranger knocking on the door. Call it civil disobedience or what have you, I am just insulted to the extent the feds are invading my privacy. To date they have not come to my door.

... Please keep us posted, Rick.

Thank you for the advice on the personal storage situation. I agree with Jack, that the lady was far too nosy and too hard-headed on certain rules. Even though I didn’t have to provide an SSN, the fact that she was adamant about requiring a driver’s license (and photocopying it) was just too much.

After some calling around, I located a storage that was willing to open up a unit in a company name with any “employee” showing up to sign the paperwork. A TIN, SSN, or even driver’s license were not needed.

I printed a few business cards and a copy of the LLC paperwork (just in case) for my “employee” and had them go down and open the unit without any problems. They showed only a passport, and it was not photocopied. They provided two ghost phone numbers and a faraway ghost PO box for an address. They did request a physical address, and my nominee told them that the company was in the process of moving to a new building (not yet located), and that another employee would call in and provide the new address later. That was good enough for them.

When it comes to privacy, you get what you pay for. Even though I am paying twice per month for the same sized unit, I now have a 100% anonymous storage.

... Note the key words here, folks: When it comes to privacy, you get what you pay for.