Instead of traveling hours out-of-state to buy a laptop, how about buying one used, maybe from a pawnshop or a garage sale or one of those one-man-show used computer stores? Its possible that pawnshops have cameras on all the time, but anything in it is likely to be, maybe not &quot;hot&quot;, but disowned with extreme prejudice. You&#x27;d be putting a cut-out between yourself and the purchase of the laptop.<p>The Step 5 checklist should include setting a random hardware address for the wireless card or ethernet port. Maybe you can obtain MAC addresses using nmap in one coffee shop, then use them in another shop.<p>Step 7, get a USB wireless that lets you put a directional antenna with high gain on it, so you can actually be some distance away from the coffee shop, library, etc while you use it.