How To Stay Off The Grid

This film shows you how to communicate without being traced. Learn how to be elusive even to the best intelligence agencies around the world. Enlarge

How To Stay Off The Grid

This film shows you how to communicate without being traced. Learn how to be elusive even to the best intelligence agencies around the world.

Step 1: Buy a pay as you go phone

Don't register it - never use your name when you speak and get rid of it before they track you down.

Step 2: Use an e-mail encryption program

Securemail, PGP or Centurian can encode your e-mails so they can't be read by hackers. Not that that's going to put off a determined government.

Step 3: Buy a new computer

Never connect it to the internet. Save files onto a memory stick and then send them from an internet café.

Step 4: Invest in a satellite phone

Calls are expensive but much harder to trace.

Step 5: Communication

Post a letter, send a carrier pigeon or just talk to people face to face…