On Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:23:30 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

He could of course set up a virtual machine in a data centre somewhere
and VPN to that, but it would have to be paid for.

Its trivial. £120 a year...Less than you pay for an internet connection.

The cost is trivial, but the payment process itself makes it more likely
that you can be traced.

Being untraceable
is not that easy.

Not with emails, no. With web traffic its not that hard if you really
want to do it

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs...c-unix.html.en

Indeed, but there are still pitfalls such as browser fingerprinting
that need to be avoided. There are a few USB bootable linux
distributions that make it easier to get everything right.

John