The CIA operator's counterintuitive first move is not buying a burner phone or downloading a VPN—it's permanently killing every device currently linked to your identity. You let the battery die and never recharge it. The reasoning is stark: your existing devices are already compromised by years of accumulated metadata, so layering new tools on top of a tainted identity accomplishes nothing.
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