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Recently I decided to have some fun &quot;going dark&quot; with my phone update. I wonder how far I got:<p>- I purchased iPhone8 from the store using cash. I gave fake name to print out receipt.<p>- I purchased empty sim card from eBay with cash at $5 value<p>- Finally on my way back, I picked up $500 pre-paid card from Wallmart. The lady at checkout wanted my ID because as she said &quot;the purchase is over $500 with cash&quot; (I had few other items) but I complained that this is BS and she probably doesn&#x27;t like my accent, and she let me go without authentication.<p>- I brought all this home when I have whole house covered with VPN from one of top 5 VPN providers (altho I connect thru USA - any connection from outside makes life much more complicated, like multiple verification screens etc)<p>- The sim card company website gave me some issues using prepaid card; but as I remembered that gift cards should not be used for ongoing charges, I just unchecked &quot;autopay every month&quot; and it went thru.<p>- I registered mail.com email address without phone # or optional recovery email<p>- I fired up new iPhone with new empty sim card. I went thru setup process using new email. Here it was harder. iTunes did not like my prepaid card. I had to use my VOIP app (not Google, an app I use from Netherlands) to call iTunes and complain. I think it was a matter of one flag because it took them five seconds. I had verified complete iTunes account with valid payment method on it.<p>- Of course I turned off as much localization&#x2F;icloud&#x2F;blahblah stuff I could<p>- I decided not to use my new phone and new number for incoming or outgoing numbers due to number matching techniques &quot;they&quot; use; instead I use a VOIP app to call my people.<p>- I did sign up to my regular mailbox but did it from BlueMail iPhone app, not the native one.<p>I wonder how hard it will be or how long it will take &quot;them&quot; to match me back...<p>Edit: altho this is my last &quot;iteration&quot; with regular phone. NExt one on my list is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silentcircle.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silentcircle.com&#x2F;</a>