1.) you should be doing everything from various public wifi networks in cities nowhere near you and 2.) the fact that you downloaded TOR is not what anyone's interested in anyways, it's what you're saying and doing behind it.
Everyone keeps saying that you should "take a greyhound out to the boon to use their wifi to be anonymous", it's pretty suspect if suddenly you take a trip to somewhere you've never been to with no obvious motive and suddenly bunch of data related to you/your employer gets leaked.
About no one caring you download Tor, if it still gets hovered up in some NSA-database-type-thing you can be exposed years after the fact. Just like no one cares (right now) what kind of porn you watch, but maybe in future some suppressive regime gets to power and they don't like how you spend your past time.
Pay cash for your ticket, leave your smartphone at home switched on (even script some stuff if you want to make it look like there's activity there). Boot into a live CD, make sure you use a spoofed MAC address (does TAILS do this automatically?) and keep your face away from cameras.
Should be pretty bulletproof against all but the most capable adversaries.
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Everyone keeps saying that you should "take a greyhound out to the boon to use their wifi to be anonymous", it's pretty suspect if suddenly you take a trip to somewhere you've never been to with no obvious motive and suddenly bunch of data related to you/your employer gets leaked.
About no one caring you download Tor, if it still gets hovered up in some NSA-database-type-thing you can be exposed years after the fact. Just like no one cares (right now) what kind of porn you watch, but maybe in future some suppressive regime gets to power and they don't like how you spend your past time.
Pay cash for your ticket, leave your smartphone at home switched on (even script some stuff if you want to make it look like there's activity there). Boot into a live CD, make sure you use a spoofed MAC address (does TAILS do this automatically?) and keep your face away from cameras.
Should be pretty bulletproof against all but the most capable adversaries.
I mean, sure, if you don't have any people in your life who wonder why the fuck did you just vanish for a day.