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Simon Wentworth (order #1132857) 9survival tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26> Identity theft works even better. Hack your info into someoneelse’s SIN and banking records and assume their identity for a while.Then, change everything back when you’re done. I hear it drives thebadges crazy.> Sneaker> Try to get SINs from different states and extraterritorial corporationsto make life harder for inverse searches. Digital balkanizationis as bad as geographical, and extraterritoriality can be your friend.You don’t want to lose all the SINs linked to your real fingerprint justbecause you left one at a crime scene. Lone Star can run the SINs inthe UCAS databases, but they can’t touch any corporate databases… again, Gaia bless extraterritoriality.> Cosmo> Having a license for all your toys and tech is a good idea. A fake IDas a licensed private investigator or personal security gets you permissionto carry all sorts of goodies: jammers, restricted cyberware,restricted programs, and big guns.> SticksBe Asocial!Social networks are one of the biggest problems for privacytoday. The amount of info people dump into their public profile(real or spin) is just the tip of the iceberg. People load up pics andvids to social websites, and they even tag them with the names ofthe people that appear. And that means you. Go to that hot cluband your face may be all over fifty different blogs. Do like I do.When you’re on a job, drop out of the loop and avoid friends andacquaintances altogether. Don’t answer private calls. Don’t visityour usual haunts. Don’t talk to your drinking buddies . You’ll beprotecting yourself and them.> Ew. You know, Glitch, metahuman contact is actually a basic need.Those CalHots you download aren’t gonna work forever. If you chooseto actually, you know, interact with metahumanity, you can use somenanopaste to disguise your features, a latex facemask (they’re quitecomfortable), or get a full body dye job and some temporary tattoos.Some adepts fair particularly well here, since there are severaladept abilities that allow them to change their facial features andskin color to make them human chameleons. Heck, just some stagemakeup and a fake mustache, and you too, Glitch, could touch a liveperson for once…> Kat O’Nine Tales> You could also disguise yourself as someone else when you go clubbing.Just don’t go to their favorite hangouts.> SnopesOut of Sight, Out of Mind!Getting spotted is one thing. Being identified is another.An important part of staying off the grid is remaining unseen.In AAA security areas and the nice middle class enclaves, there’salways at least one security drone airborne and often patrollingspirits. There are areas in every sprawl where you’re caught by 50cameras, 10 microphones, and 5 cyber scanners every 100 meters.But, leave main street and touristville, and things change fast. Anunprotected camera or mike is just tech waiting to be vandalized,hacked, or stolen. Scavenger gangs do it all the time, so much so,the city gives up on replacing them after a while. Of course, theslums and barrens are even better: There are fewer (or no) copspatrolling. Most importantly, nobody gives a shit who you are orwhat you do—and sensors? What are those?> The best bet is to avoid the nicer neighborhoods, but, if you chooseto live there, use a good fake ID that you don’t touch on any of yourcriminal ventures.> Kat O’Nine Tales> Another option is to manipulate corporate extraterritoriality. If youlive in a Evo apartment complex, don’t do runs against Evo. They’renot going to share tenant info with any other corp, so there’s ameasure of anonymity. Lone Star certainly can’t come knockingon your door there. Whereas, if you have a nice home in a publichousing development, Lone Star can waltz in and out without evenasking permission.> Dr. SpinFor those times when you have to break cover, disguise yourID. At the very least, on a run, you should wear a ski mask, thougha hard mask is better—some of the more sophisticated programscan guess your features through fabric contours. But you can alsogo all out and use masking spells, old-school latex disguises or thenew nanopaste stuff, and/or even alt-skin.Runner’s Companion