[georgefox]

Hmm, yeah. The linked video from the Globe and Mail says to avoid surfing the web during the procedure, but avoiding explicitly going to Facebook and Twitter (their examples, IIRC) won't stop all identifiable network traffic from your device. I suppose that's where the suggestion of using a boot-from-USB OS might come in.

[iak8god]

I consider myself to be quite savvy and I'd have zero confidence in my ability to reliably shut down all identifiable traffic, except by setting up a tool that blocks all traffic (like Little Snitch[1]) and then making an exception for Tor traffic.

And then there's the fact that most people's MAC addresses are ultimately tied to their identities in a way that a powerful actor could recover it without too much difficulty.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13443858