Hacker Rules, How completely do you implement them? Options

[longbowrocks]

I'm building a hacker/rigger/face. I have no dice pools over 20 or under 12, and I have 83k left with which to get my drones in order, so no worries there. My problem is that Hackers need TONS of programs to be effective, but they need a SIN to install these programs.

• If I get a maximum rating 6 fake SIN, There's a good chance I will loose almost all my programs (unwired suggests a threshold of 2-4 to make my fake SIN check against, which will rape my programs).
• I feel a real SIN is not an option for me. I'm building the most invisible hacker ever, so it wouldn't make much sense for me to get a negative quality that makes me more visible than most shadowrunners. It really bugs me how hackers should be very anonymous, but sammies are far more so if they just buy Erased (since they hardly ever leave matrix footprints anyway, and there are no dang resonance archives for the physical world).
• The third option involves constantly degrading software. There's no way I can keep up with the checks to repair my own code or patch corporate (X month/1 week check respectively). I couldn't even keep up if my GM allowed me to patch multiple programs simultaneously at a cumulative -1 penalty (a rule I just came up with, but one he might agree to).
• As a subset of option 3, I could hack corporations for the updates, but I doubt my GM would appreciate me going on 24 private hacking missions every month.

All in all, it seems impossible to play a hacker outside of prison (well, I guess I'm open to that as long as they don't take my commlink). Thoughts?