I don’t really hide it. What I have done though/do is
- enforce an always on VPN for my phone, laptop, and desktop
- delete instagram, Facebook, twitter
- unlist my name from spokeo, as well as the majority of my family’s name so they can’t be associated
- enable DNT, ublock origin and ensure that my geoip doesn’t resolve anywhere near my actual city
- do continual google searches to make sure that any instance of my real name to usernames I don’t want to be associated to doesn’t exist
- have full disk encryption for my laptop and use arch with a strict iptables rule to ensure that no connections can reach any services
- continually audit the services running on my laptop and disable them from running
- modify the hostname and MAC address of my laptop, as well as disable any communications until the VPN negotiation is finished, so i can ensure that my laptop can’t have a “fingerprint” associated with it
- disable the microphone, camera for all devices and use USB ones only so I know when they’re active and I should be cautious
- have a seperate NAT subnet for all of my devices
- use 50+ character passwords everywhere, phone is an exception with a 32 character pw
- All the things are twofactor
- encrypted messaging apps all around
other then that, not much. you could easily find my real name and picture from the forums.
