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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: AussieMitch on January 28, 2013, 04:03 pm
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I've been thinking alot about this lately and reviewing the way I do business, and I believe i've come up with the most secure way possible for me to communicate with my guys in real life to organize deals. Keep in mind that I don't have access to affordable SMS to Email services and I have to keep my methods simple enough that anyone I might deal with can follow them:
1. Buy a burner phone with no connection to my real identity and register a pre-paid SIM with it in a fake name. Everytime the SIM runs out of credit buy a new phone and SIM.
2. Choose a burner phone without any GPS or Internet capability like the Nokia 101 and disable the microphone so it can only be used for texting.
3. Explain to all of my contacts that they are to save this number in their phones under a plausible-sounding fake name (Like 'James Harding' or something) and to only send non-suss text messages.
4. Give locations that I meet people at fake names and give everyone nicknames when texting. Also make no mention of the names of drugs and use a coded method of communicating prices if necessary.
5. Always end my messages with a symbol that is not a full-stop (like / , \ - etc) and have all my contacts do the same, in-case LE takes control of a phone and tries to organize a setup.
6. Always lie about exactly where I am, who i'm with or what i'm doing if asked via text message, and don't communicate any non-essential information.
7. Make sure I never do ANYTHING that is drug-related or even the slightest bit illegal on my personal phone. Use Tormail for any really suss communication that I need to have with my runners and with my business partner or just meet up in real life and have a conversation away from any houses or cars or anywhere a bug could be placed.
Is this the safest way I can organize my deals in real life, that isn't massively time-consuming and inconvenient? I can't see any real holes in this setup.
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Seems like you got it all down packed.
Only issue that is more or less unavoidable is :
If one of your clients or business partner is not as smart as you and gets caught,
will they cut a deal in giving you up to avoid the long prison sentence?
You can be as strong as you want but if one of the beams in your support structure is weak, then
you will come falling down with the rest of your business.
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Don't turn your burner phone on and off in the same place all the time, don't have it on for longer than you need it, and never carry it with your personal phone on at the same time, don't turn one off and the other immediately on, and vice versa.
Might be being overly paranoid, but if someone had the cell-connection records for every phone in an area, it would be pretty easy to establish a link between two phones given an hour or so of movement with them both on the same person. So I'd say to be safe, try to break any link in cell-connection records between your burner and your personal phone, and the easiest way to do that is never carry them both at the same time.