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Forgetting the reasons behind why you want to do this for the moment and focusing on the technical side of your question.
Your best bet would be the following:
1) Download Tails, a linux 'Live CD' which has a focus on privacy
2) Load it up on your laptop, connect to wifi at a public hotspot such as Starbucks or McDonalds (pay in cash if you intend to ...
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There are many ways for this kind of information to be gained and the ideal solution is to have someone understand your environment and investigate possible sources of information leakage.
Generally speaking, no, you shouldn't be able to hack an airline. That's not to say its impossible, but it is unlikely as especially since 9/11 Airports etc take security ...
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A "Cease and Desist" notice sent via email, untraceable or otherwise is not likely to be effective. Terry's comment suggesting you call the police is a much better option, but perhaps the best is to get a lawyer involved, and have the individual served with an actual, legally binding order of protection, or whatever similar instrument you may have locally ...
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If you're looking for privacy, I would say Internet is not for you and that DNS look-up is not the biggest privacy concern. Remember you leave your IP-address - even if that often is a temporarily (dynamic) IP-address lent you by your ISP - with every request you make to a web-server. In addition, your ISP is probably maintaining logs about which of their ...
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The tools are out there for a company to collect a great deal of information about how you use your work-supplied computer. There is software available that can record every keystroke, complete browsing history, even periodically take pictures with the webcam or sound from the microphone. Your company may not have this sort of thing installed, but it is good ...
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If you have to ask the question, then don't do what your thinking about doing on company computers, networks, or equipment. Not only do you have to worry about the company, but if your company becomes part of a litigation or a regulatory compliance issue, whatever you have done on it will get gathered up and become public record.
So to my original ...
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The answer really is... it depends.
This question is impossible to answer without knowing exactly what sort of software your company has installed on your computer. However, to assuage your fears do take a look at the contract you signed. That should detail exactly what sort of data the company is allowed to collect from you.
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My suggestion would be as follows:
Store the PDFs on a LUKS partition (or GPG full-disk / TrueCrypt full-disk), so that theft of the physical disks should not yield the data.
Run a secondary HTTP server whose sole job it is to serve these files. Configure your file permissions such that only that HTTP server can read the PDFs. This provides minimum attack ...
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If you know this person, which I am assuming you do and their communication attempts are threatening your well being, you can and should contact the law enforcement before it is too late.
Short of that, to make tracing you harder if not totally impossible, download and setup "Tor Browser" (just Google the term). Set up a new email with your choice of the ...
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This article regards Whatsapp's encryption to be too weak and the company's handling of security issues to be lacking:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Account-theft-still-possible-with-latest-WhatsApp-1760639.html
This article says sender authentication is now more robust, but privacy concerns persist:
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